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Austintown library offers latest email computer class
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Neighbors | Tim Cleveland.Librarian Andrea Robison helped June Delesky set up a gmail account while Gene Delesky looked on during the email computer class at the Austintown library.
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Neighbors | Tim Cleveland.Austintown librarian Andrea Robison got the email computer class under way with attendees Gene (left) and June Delesky of Austintown.
By TIM CLEVELAND
The Austintown library hosted its most recent email computer class on Jan. 14. The classes deal in the internet and email to help area adults who may not understand how to use the technology.
Librarian Andrea Robison taught the class for the first time.
Future classes that the Austintown library will offer in the future are a basic computer class, a Kindle class, Facebook for Seniors and Kinja.
“Technology is kind of our thing,” Robison said.
Currently, classes are limited to three people who must register in advance due to the library only owning three laptops. Others may also attend but they have to provide their own laptop.
For the Jan. 14 class, two of the three people who signed up attended. They were June and Gene Delesky of Austintown.
Robison said that will allow her to give more individualized attention to the pair.
“For this, because there’s only two of them [attending], I’m pretty much going to ask them what they need to know about their email, so it’s kind of going to be a one-on-one environment but that’s only because I know they’re husband and wife,” she said. “I’ll go over different things they can do with email, how to get information, filter it, change settings. It’s pretty much everything they need to know, so it’s very catered to them.”
Robison had the Deleskys start by logging into their gmail accounts. She then taught them how to enter a subject in the topic bar of an email, write an email, and send it.
Robison said anyone signing up for the email class will know everything there is to know about email at its conclusion.
“They’ll be able to use their email, any provider they want with no problem,” she said. “They should understand what they’re doing instead of clicking around aimlessly to figure out what they’re doing. And that’s the goal.”