Computer is sick!!

[Nursepair]

Hi all, Just to let you know I have to take my computer in tomorrow, it's very sick, can't nurse it back to health myself, been trying to 2 days now,could be 4-5 days before I get it back ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!! It will feel like I've had my right arm removed.

My mum arrives Wednesday for 2 weeks, so may not be on as often, though I hope to show her this site. She is taking a computer course at the centre in her complex, she will be 82 in June. Never been on the computer before last Friday. Hope to give her some lessons here too.

I will miss you all. Have to go quick as I keep getting pop ups then the computer shuts itself down or just freezes. Been doing backups half the morning. Talk ASAP. (((((HUGS)))))))) Sue

[JenniferG]

Wondered where you were. Tell your computer to get better soon. Sounds like a virus. Maybe it needs a TMR. (Total memory replacement).

[Jamie]

Sue, bless your Mom's heart! Computer lessons at 82!!! I love stories like that. My Dad was a computer "nut" starting in his 70's. As he was dying of cancer, he and I went out in a snow storm on New Year's Day so that he could get a brand new (faster) computer and get online. He was 88. Your Mom sounds like a very fun lady!!

[Weezy]

I love to hear stories about people in their 70s, 80s and above learning computers! I've taught computers professionally for decades now (both in private industry and at a college). One of my favorite and most memorable students was 96. It was a night class, twice a week for 10 weeks; his son drove him only because he didn't like to drive at night any more. By the end of the quarter, he was helping many of the 20-somethings in the class! And more than once he had us all enthralled (and laughing!) with stories about the contrasts between being in school today vs. when he went to college "the first time," and other great tales of life in this area.

Cognitively, there are very few differences between how older students learn...learning styles vary just as much among them as they do among younger students, and most students just need lots of repetition and practice!

Have fun teaching your mom--I envy you!

Weezy

[Josephine]

Then I should tell you about my sister. She is now 75. Three years ago her son gave her his old computer when he bought a new one. She learned to use it in no time but as for the internet, declared that she wouldn't use it much because it 'wasn't her thing'! Well very soon after, she discovered a gardening forum which we both joined in May 2005. Within days we were both totally hooked and were competing to see who would make 100 posts first! Very soon after we both became moderators on that forum.

But since then, she has started her own forum! She gets all sorts of information just by Googling and has even cleaned out her hard drive and rebooted it from scratch not once but half a dozen times when she got a virus!

Not only that but she transfers her vinyl records, edits them and saves them onto cds. She does terrific things with photographic images, editing and all sorts. So now, where she used to ring me to ask 'how do I do ...' I'M now the one that rings her and asks 'how do I...'!

I am sooo proud of her!

[Jamie]

Josephine....what a wonderful story! You are both just whirlwinds of activity!!!! Your parents raised a couple of really special gals!