>That's the biggest problem I've observed also. I have one Trakball, and >nearly everyone is successful with that.
Great idea. There are some trackballs that have a very big ball, like grapefruit size. I think that would probably be the best for seniors. Need to adjust the ball to make it less sensitive, so it takes a lot of motion to move the cursor. That would make tremors less of a problem. >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! I recently taught some classes for the LC for their non-tech staff. I started out with web sites. Sites like Shopzilla, Google Maps, Flickr. This got everybody excited and looking at different things that interested them. This gave them lots of active practice. And reasons for learning more. ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
