At 10:02 AM 02/04/2009 -0500, Tom Piwowar wrote
His greatest problem was selecting with the mouse, his hand was not steady enough to use menus. Definitely a situation where keyboard input would be superior to mousing.
That's the biggest problem I've observed also. I have one Trakball, and nearly everyone is successful with that. I have a keyboard shortcut chart on the wall, but some can't seem to get the hang of that either.
I helped with classes at another center previously, and the strategy there was to do mouse practice with Solitaire. Big mistake..they were trying to teach them as a group, but once they showed them how to access solitaire, that's all the students did during class! As you mention, sometimes seniors just aren't physically able to control a mouse.
One-on-one works much better, along with teaching them what they want to know. Sue ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
