Please share with as many people as you think might be interested. I have mentioned here in the past that I was interested in pursuing holding online courses of various kinds in the future. I got a bit sidetracked and caught up in several other projects and tasks, but I have slowly been contemplating and pondering the subject as time has passed. What I would like to do is first offer some free courses to help current users or potential users of the Mac and iDevices get themselves started or familiar with a lot of the basics in an easy, straight forward in systematic manner. With the current circumstances created by the COVID19 pandemic, I also think free courses would be helpful to many and appreciated as well. Obviously, if this project gains interest, it will expand and include several intermediate and advanced areas of material regarding the Mac or iDevices. I have plenty of ideas and thoughts, but it will basically depend on the response from the community and the interest of users. With that all said, let me present my ideas and thoughts as they stand now. Please do pass this information along to as many possibly interested people you know and share it with them all. The How I plan to hold these courses in some kind of online or telephone manner. This will come down to what the general consensus of the interested people feel is best. I am looking at Free Conference Calls as one possible avenue, while other conferencing solutions, such as Zoom, has been suggested by many, along with a few others, including Microsoft Teams. The When At the moment, I'd like to start doing something in May. Specifically, the weeks of the 11th or 18th are potential starting points. Again, though, this will depend on the number of people interested and their suggestions. The What As far as the material I plan to present, here are some initial topics I would like to offer. . An Introduction to your Mac and MacOS using VoiceOver . VoiceOver Basics on the Mac: Interaction to Navigation .Basic Web Browsing on the Mac with VoiceOver and Safari . VoiceOver and applications on the Mac .An Introduction to your iDevice and its potential using VoiceOver .VoiceOver and iOS: Basic Gestures and the Item Rotor Explained .VoiceOver and Applications in iOS: A Crash Course . Your Apple Devices and Their Connectivity and Potential Power What I need from You Now, what I would like from those who are interested is to please respond to my ideas for the how, when and what options. You can do this by using the https://macfortheblind.com/contact-us Link on the main page or you can email me directly at, j...@macfortheblind.com Please indicate in the subject that you are interested in attending the online courses. Also, please tell me the following: .What conferencing method might be desired or felt to be the easiest for you to use? .What days of the week and times of the day would be most convenient for you to attend an online course that would last between one hour and an hour and a half? .Out of the topics listed above, please let me know which ones would be of the most interest to you. Once I receive responses from the community, I will contact you directly with details and set up the initial course time and material. If I receive a mixture of suggestions, I will do my best to present multiple courses with the desired topics to accommodate as many folks as I possibly can. I thank you in advance for your interest, and I hope that I will meet you online in the near future.
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