 On March 21 a free webinar took place on MS Office 2013. The webinar was organized by Connecting Up & TechSoup Asia and sponsored by Microsoft Citizenship. The 1 hour recording is now available for anyone wishing to learn about what’s new in MS Office 2013.
The latest version of Microsoft Office is an overall improvement from previous versions, with new features and a refreshed user interface. The productivity suite has also been optimised for touchscreen devices, such as tablets and all-in-one PCs with touch monitors.
There are many new features sprinkled across the software within the Office suite, so watch this webinar for a live demonstration of the new Microsoft Office! It will address some of the key useful features and how eligible not-for-profits can access donated licenses from Microsoft.
 On March 18th at 00:00 CET the Get Online Week 2013 (#GOW2013) campaign counter was set to zero. In a joined effort to empower people to use technology to find a job or get more out of life, thousands of Europeans will be reached during the Pan-European campaign that will end on March 24th, at 24h CET.
Together with public authorithies & ICT companies, national campaign partners from almost 30 countries are organizing a whole week of exciting events, training sessions and competitions, taking place in approximately 10.000 European ICT learning centres (also known as telecentres) at public libraries, schools & municipal organisations, located in both urban and rural areas. Continue reading »
 To help Polish organizations, libraries & institutions organize successful events during the Get Online Week campaign, the polish partner organization the Information Society Development Foundation (FRSI) have prepared some ready-to-use scenarios that are now published in English and available to be used for the GOW2013 national partners.
During the campaign editions of GOW2011 and GOW2012 , FRSI created a total 0f 6 scenarios, directed to first online users & seniors (“Virtual listener’s choice”, “Health Clinic”, “Talk Priceless”) but also targeted to people of all ages, families and groups of friends (“Around the world in 80 minutes”, “Plant a tree.. on the internet!”, “Warm-up before EURO2012″).
For GOW2013, 3 more scenarios are being developed, together with the other Polish organizations coordinating the campaign this year: Cities on Internet Association and the Foundation Supporting Physically Disabled Mathematicians and IT Specialists. To be continued!
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The Carer+ consortium is currently finalising research that will lead to the creation of the Carer+ Digital Competence Framework. But what is a competence framework in the first place? And how can it serve care workers and caregivers in their personal and professional development?
The purpose of a competence framework is to give a clear, systematic picture of what knowledge, skills and attitudes will make a person competent in certain area of work or study. Competence frameworks usually organise their elements in at least two dimensions. Firstly, the types of target activities and work tasks are described and the required knowledge, skills and attitudes are linked to them. Secondly, it is important also to define different proficiency levels that will indicate how complex should the knowledge, skills and attitudes get at different levels from, say, beginner to master.
Thus, the Carer+ Digital Competence Framework will provide care workers and caregivers with a reference tool that will help them assess their digital competence and plan their further development in an organised and outcome-oriented way. Using the framework, the care giver will be able to tell what knowledge and skills he/she currently possesses, on what levels of mastery, and where best to aim further learning. Schools, teachers and trainer can make good use of the framework as well by structuring and facilitating their courses’ plans and objectives. It can also help employers to plan their staff’s professional development.
The tool will be finalised in the first quarter of 2013 and published in a wiki environment in the Carer+ Portal for all interested stakeholders to use, review and comment.
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 After months of hard work, Telecentre.org Foundation’s English community site is completely redesigned and is sporting a new look and feel, similar to TCF’s corporate site.
The new community site has a cleaner, easier-to-navigate interface plus more streamlined features and content. With the new design, TCF is hoping not only to grow their community membership but also to make their online community more dynamic & active, and better able to meet the needs of their members.
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 During a partner meeting on 20-21 November in Timisoara (Romania) the Telecentre Multimedia Academy (TMA) project has taken its official start. Leaded by Telecentre-Europe AISBL, TMA is a 24 months multilateral project between 7 TE member organizations, aimed at designing, developing and piloting a learning programme on media literacy addressed to adult learners.
 The importance of media literacy is underlined by the recognition that the new economies will be dominated by digital technologies, and the human ability to use these technologies for social, cultural and economic advantage. The programme will equip learners with skills related to understanding, use and production of media based on ICTs, including audio-visual and photography.
TMA will also establish reference points across Europe to offer this learning opportunity to adults on a regular basis. The project will make available a learning opportunity on media literacy for adult learners and provide a flexible, simply implementable, and modular learning pathway, easily transferrable and applicable for a range of diverse contexts and organization types.
For its implementation, the partnership received co-funding from the EU Life Long Learning Programme (Grundtvig programme – Multilateral Projects).
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 Telecentre-Europe has partnered with TechSoup Global to connect telecentre organizations in European countries with technology product donations, and with the free learning resources they need to make informed decisions and operate at their full potential.
Once registered and qualified with a local donation program, an organization can access donated and discounted products and services, including software from partners like Microsoft, Symantec, Cisco, and SAP.
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