Friday, October 24, 2014
By TIM CLEVELAND
In an effort to help people learn how to use computers, the Austintown library hosted the first of three classes designed to educate on how to use the internet on Sept. 9.
The other classes are on Facebook (Sept. 19) and on email (Sept. 29).
“We do a lot of tech support with people, help on the internet, the computers,” adult services librarian Lindsay Platt said. “People don’t know how to use it. We just decided to start doing it in small groups and hopefully they’ll be able to go off on their own.”
Platt said attendees of the class would get an education in computers at the very basic level.
“We start from the most basic,” she said. “I talk about the different web browsers and how to actually open them up and what you see when you open the internet browsers. Different search engines, how to search, how to navigate a website.”
The class provided three laptops for the attendees to use, but more people could attend of they brought their own.
One of the people who attended was Ron Czuba, 84, of Canfield.
“My 14 grandkids say I’m a computer illiterate,” he said of why he joined the class. “I’m not working and I live alone. I think I can learn something.”
“It’s the beginning of learning how to just navigate the internet themselves, not needing someone to do that for them because everything is on the internet, so they almost need it,” Platt said. “They need to know how to do it.”