[X4U] Advice sought on a Mac book for an elderly beginner-level user.

[Jamie Kahn Genet]

Heh, yeah I reckon :-) Thanks everyone for all the good suggestions,
BTW. I'm a fan of The Missing Manuals, but they're too heavy going for
my target audience. I like the sound of something highly visual that
desribes in text and then shows in pictures what's going on. Are those
"A visual guide to..." and Visual Quickstart guides in colour? They
both sound about what I want.

Cheers,
 Jamie Kahn Genet

2008/5/3 John Erdman <jperdman at gmail.com>:
> I'm teaching SketchUp at the local Senior College, and I seem to have a
> class room full of similar folks. Makes it difficult to even teach the
> basics of the software.  Even harder is that several of these earnest folks
> have short term memory problems.  Nothing, but nothing sticks! Not sure that
> there are any easy answers out there except to keep smiling and possess lots
> of patience.
>
>  At least the lures of what these apps can do keeps their attention and
> raises their desire to learn the more mundane aspects of using a computer.
>
>  John
>
>
>  On May 2, 2008, at 9:16 AM, Crandon David wrote:
>
>
> > Sounds like me and my mother...
> >
> > David
> >
> >
> >
> > On May 1, 2008, at 9:37 PM, Jamie Kahn Genet wrote:
> >
> >
> > > I like them, but showing the same stuff over and over and not getting
> > > compensated for doing so is wearying. Perhaps you'd like to volunteer?
> > > ;-)
> > >
> > >
> >
>
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