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ALL THINGS DIGITAL: “Windows What?” Senior Center – October 13 |Free & Open to all

Change to scheduled speaker and topic. ALL THINGS DIGITAL: “Windows What?”Monday, October 13, 1:00 pm Microsoft has announced a new Windows operating system. It’s the next generation Windows 8-so they’re calling it Windows 10! Bruce Saunders will review the features of Windows 8 and why folks should not fear going to the much faster and more…
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Scratch is AWESOME! Jackson-Via Computer Club is off to a running start.

We had such a fun and enthusiastic first meeting of our after-school JV Computer Club yesterday! In this meeting we began by reviewing the Scratch community guidelines, and then our eleven members chose their Scratch names: jvtoucan, jvkingrex, jvcool-j, jvpackers, jvsoccer, jvlighteningstrike, jvbre, jvstar, jvbaseball, jvmonkey, and jvkittie. We explored the Scratch interface. We learned how to put…
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Jackson-Via after-school Computer Club starts TODAY! Getting ready to start Scratching

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Computer Class for Seniors Available through PVCC
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Is There a Crisis in Computer-Science Education?

I was fortunate in being able to learn Commodore Basic programming along with my children who were in grade school in the 70s. When the Web arrived in the 90s, I took one look at HTML and javascript and thought immediately, “This looks like fun!” — the rest is history. I hope that our schools will add computer coding back…
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Loom Knitting – Good for the brain? -for the Spirit? -for the Community?

Brain-fitness articles often recommend learning a new skill such as knitting. This sounded like a great transition from my primary focus on Weaving the Web for the last 20 years (weaving is weaving – right?) until I discovered that even though I had started learning to knit as a teen, I was still hopelessly inept. Regulating the…