CIH Rejuvenation Afternoons

Tena koutou katoa

Merry Christmas!

Starting at the beginning of next term (term 1 2008) we will be holding at your school a series of what we call "Computers in Homes Rejuvenation " days.
If you have had your computer for at least 6months we want you to participate.

This is where we organise an afternoon/early evening day at your school to give your computer a warrant of fitness - so to speak. The WOF will be a way where we can have Kris and the gang from Awapuni Computers check over your computer for problems and make sure all over the hardware is working properly.

During this ime we will also ask you to complete a brief survey to see how the project has worked for you and your whanau.

We will provide nibbles, lucky whanau prize and computer use advice.
It will take about 60 minutes at a time that best suits you on the day.

Computers in Homes and your school will contact you some time in 2008 for your rejuvenation day.

Ivan

Awapuni School Graduation - Ka mau te wehi!

AWESOME - was the graduation that was held at Awapuni School recently with a massive 53 whanau taking their computers home.
It was a fantastic night with big thanks to Catherine Birt, Cheyl Torrie and the Awapun team for staging just a choice night. Thanks to supporters fr0m the Gisborne District Council, Deputy Mayor Nona Aston, and Douglas Birt.
But most of all, a big congratulations to all of you who went through the training and came out so positive about the experience.
Thanks for the Pics!!

Great Comments from a Great Trainer

Viv Bell (pictured in the middle) has completed another whanau training group, this time at Te Wharau School. Viv has been a fantastic asset to our project and has now helped out at three schools.

Comments from Viv on her just concluded group:

The Te Wharau group was enthusiastic and hard working.I thoroughly

enjoyed the challenge of keeping them pumping along. They covered emails

weekly, word processing, report writing, powerpoint presentation, excel,

CD-roms, net safety, practical troubleshooting, internet search engines,

links , cutting and pasting pictures and photos, use of USB flashdrive

and safe removal, rules for use of computer in the home. Every session

was related to their school age child and what teachers might do with

them in the classroom.

Thanks Viv for all of your hard work.

Community Partnership Fund - Gisborne Launch

Awapuni school was the site for the official launch of the round 2 "Community Partnership Fund" successful projects.
Computers in Homes was once again successful in a number of bids throughout the country.
Gisborne Rural, East Coast and Wairoa schools were amongst the biggest winners.
Citizens Advice Bureau was also a big recipient and took an active part in the project launch celebrations.

The Gisborne Herald was on hand to file the following report.