new courses

On Monday 20th April 09 we have IT for the confused beginners at 9:30 a.m., English and Maths at 1:00 p.m. and our new Crafty Friends Group at 3:00 p.m. where you can learn or teach crafts such as knitting, sewing, crotchet, jewellery making, etc.

On Tuesday 23 March 09 at 12:30 there is Selling On Line beginning where you will learn all you need to know about buying and selling online, how to upload photographs of goods for sale, internet safety, setting up a paypal account and so on.

Tuesday 21st April at 9:30 a.m. we have Using your Digital Camera work work, rest or play!!Whether you use your camera in a work or fun capacity, come along and learn how to use all the functions on your camera, practice and take some fun happy snaps in class, and upload to the computer and learn how to save and store your memories.

Again on a Tuesday, the 24th March at 5:30 p.m we have PC Maintainence where you will learn over 8 weeks how to solve diagnostic problems, add extra RAM and basically pull your computer apart and know how to put it back together again!!

And brand new and exiting we have the SOCIAL NETWORKING CLASS starting on Wednesday 22 April 09 from 12:30 - 3;00 pm for 6 weeks. In this new class you can learnhow to find reliabe information on the internet, Support children online, Online shopping, Online banking & financeIts all useful info, What is social networking? Facebook, Flickr and Yuotube.

Student Winners

At the Action Resource Centre, the Photoshop 3 students were set an assignment by their DACE tutor Brian Morris to design an invitation to our community Christmas celebration event.......






The class set off to work on their designs and within a 2 hour class they completed thier work. And here are two of the winners who will now have this work printed back to back for the flyers which will be sent out to the Portmead, Blaenymaes, Penplas and surrounding areas - they were Karen Edwards and Maralyn McKenna.... well done to both.
The even is on 12th December from 11- 3 with Portmead and Blaenymaes school choirs doing some carol singing along with our own songwriting group, who will be performing their first 'gig'. 3 DACe tutors will be doing ICT workshop session, there will be a 'skype' session and the launch of our ability net disability equipment. A raffle will also take place and there will be a lovely buffet lunch provided by Cafe ARC.

Play Champion

Earlier in November Debbie Jones was presented with a trophy and certificate for work done with the City and County of Swansea Play Team, as a 'Play Champion' along with 3 others in the group.

Picture here the play champions with Lord Mayor Cllr Gareth Sullivan at the Mansion House, Swansea

Students from the Action Resource Centre had a proud moment on Saturday 29th November 2008 when they attended the graduation ceremony at Swansea's University of Wales. For their achievements in the field of Information Technology Foundation Certificate, pictured here are some of the graduated students... Jean Powell, Maureen Thomas, Seleh Chege and Joanne Fitzgerald pictured with Lisa Watkins and Debbie Jones, staff from the ARC and tutor Georgina Hayman, who also graduated.

Michael Powis, Elaine Quinn, Cath McCormack also graduated in absento.

Basic Skills

Hi everyone
Normally the basic skills courses end during the summer holidays and recommence in September. This year the Lifelong Learning department have had funding to continue their service with us through the summer holidays. Please can you pass on this information to anyone you may feel benefit. Even if people are attending basic skills in other venues, they may feel that they could benefit from attending extra classes during the summer with us.

The class is every Monday from 1 – 3 p.m. and anyone can drop in to attend. An assessment is completed on arrival to see what level to work at and then continue to work at their own pace. The subjects are Maths and English – entry level, up to Level 3.

Also we have an IT beginners class commencing on July 28th for 4 weeks, FREE of charge. Times: 10 – 12:30 p.m.
For further information feel free to contact me.Debbie Jones
Senior Community Development Officer(01792) 578632 / 07825178320
www.bpptrust.orghttp://dcn-project.co.uk
http://lll-arc.blogspot.com

Community Progression Courses At the ARC

New taster sessions starting soon at the ARC, 45 Broughton Avenue as follows:

Business Studies & Work preparation 4 weeks taster starting on 16th June 08 from 1 - 3 pm.

History 4 week taster starting on 16th June 08 from 10 am - 12 pm

Sustainbility - learn to be green :)
At the New Drop In Centre, 88 Blaenymaes Drive
4 week taster starts at 10 am on 11th June.

For further details contact Debbie on 01792 578632

Swansea ICT Map

Do you want to know more about facilities in your area?

http://www.swanseaictmap.co.uk/ is to be launched on July 1st by XLWales at the National Waterfront Museum. There will be a range of activities on throughout the day between 11 - 3 p.m.

XL Wales are working with gorups in the local community and have developed an online map showing ICT resources, faciliteis and training in Communities First areas across Swansea.

This project has been funded by Communities@One - for further information or to get involved in the day contact Clare Fry at clare@xlwales.org.uk

Adult Learners Week

Today at the ARC we had a free taster session of SKYPE for Adult Learners Week. We set up our laptops with webcams and headsets and gave demonstrations on how to use skype, the benefits and then let people have some fun with contacting eachother in the room. Over 20 people came along and had a laugh in the process. Great stuff... so download skype now on http://www.skype.com/ for details and set yourself up with an account and chat for free with other skype users. Its great if you have family living away - both of you download skype and you can see eachother on cam, talk like a phone line all for free.

National Botanical Gardens Carmarthen

Community Progression (Swansea Univeristy) today held their meeting at the beautiful Botanical Gardens in Carmarthen. Here are some pictures from our lovely day.