Organising sessions and events – Good Things Foundation https://goodthingsaustralia.org Closing the digital divide Tue, 15 Apr 2025 06:54:26 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://goodthingsaustralia.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/curves-150x150.png Organising sessions and events – Good Things Foundation https://goodthingsaustralia.org 32 32 Planning an amazing Get Online Week event https://goodthingsaustralia.org/mentor-resource/planning-an-amazing-get-online-week-event/ Tue, 15 Apr 2025 05:55:03 +0000 https://goodthingsaustralia.org/?post_type=teaching-resource&p=10348 Planning a digital skills event doesn’t have to be hard. With a few tips in your back pocket, you can create a successful, safe and fun event for your community this Get Online Week. Learn more about Get Online Week Get Online Week is…

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Making the most of your nbn™ connection https://goodthingsaustralia.org/mentor-resource/making-the-most-of-your-nbn-connection/ Tue, 07 Jan 2025 05:02:29 +0000 https://goodthingsaustralia.org/?post_type=teaching-resource&p=10088 One of the most common pieces of equipment (and often the only one needed) to get you connected to the internet is a WiFi router. Routers are boxes that connect to your phone line and send internet signals around your home, allowing everything in your home to connect to the internet wirelessly. Here are a few things you can try to make sure your WiFi connection is as strong as possible.

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Succession planning for Digital Skills programs https://goodthingsaustralia.org/mentor-resource/succession-planning-for-digital-skills-programs/ Tue, 07 Jan 2025 04:39:25 +0000 https://goodthingsaustralia.org/?post_type=teaching-resource&p=10085 It is often hard to predict when a highly valued person may leave an organisation. We know staff and volunteers move in and out of roles all the time, for many different reasons. You may have heard of the saying, “If you fail to plan, you plan to fail” …. Succession planning helps to prevent your digital skills programs from stopping when key people leave, allowing your organisation to keep…

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Checklist for delivering sessions remotely https://goodthingsaustralia.org/mentor-resource/checklist-for-delivering-sessions-remotely/ Tue, 07 Jan 2025 04:07:09 +0000 https://goodthingsaustralia.org/?post_type=teaching-resource&p=10082 Before you hold your first remote session, there are a few things you have to do to set up your online meeting. This will help your learners adjust to this new way of learning. Follow this checklist and have everything working and tested before your online meeting.

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How AI can help you: Printable flip card activity https://goodthingsaustralia.org/mentor-resource/how-ai-can-help-you-printable-flip-card-activity/ Mon, 19 Aug 2024 05:52:12 +0000 https://goodthingsaustralia.org/?post_type=teaching-resource&p=5682 Print out this flip card activity and use it with your community to support them to get familiar with AI. This printable activity contains ten A5 flip cards. Each flip card showcases the different ways that AI can help you. This is a fun resource to engage your community in a Benefits of AI session and introduce them to some of the practical ways people can use AI. It will take around 15 – 30…

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Find the AI Words (Level 1) https://goodthingsaustralia.org/mentor-resource/find-the-ai-words-intro-to-ai-worksheet/ Mon, 19 Aug 2024 05:40:48 +0000 https://goodthingsaustralia.org/?post_type=teaching-resource&p=5680 Print out this find-a-word activity and use it with your community to support them to get familiar with AI. On page one of this resource is a fun find-a-word, and on page two are discussion prompts to encourage people to keep learning and chatting about AI. This is a fun resource to engage your community in an Intro to AI session and introduce them to words and concepts around AI.

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Session Plan: Intro to online safety https://goodthingsaustralia.org/mentor-resource/session-plan-intro-to-online-safety/ Wed, 10 Jul 2024 04:45:19 +0000 https://goodthingsaustralia.org/?post_type=teaching-resource&p=5448 This ready to use session plan helps you to host a digital skills group learning activity using our Intro to Online Safety course. This session plan has been designed to support people with intellectual disability to learn, but would suit varied groups of learners. It includes online learning, discussion and reflection activities. Face to face delivery This session will…

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Using our Conversation Cards  https://goodthingsaustralia.org/mentor-resource/using-our-conversation-cards/ Tue, 09 Jul 2024 08:16:13 +0000 https://goodthingsaustralia.org/?post_type=teaching-resource&p=5434 We know that sometimes it can be hard to know where to start when helping people to learn digital skills and to stay safer online. So, in collaboration with our partners at Down Syndrome Australia, we have created a fun pack of conversation cards which we are delighted to now share with you. These cards provide a fun and educational way to get a conversation started and teach digital skills.

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Creating documents: Practice activity on writing formal letters https://goodthingsaustralia.org/mentor-resource/creating-documents-practice-activity-2/ Wed, 03 Jul 2024 00:26:01 +0000 https://goodthingsaustralia.org/?post_type=teaching-resource&p=5223 This practice activity helps people get more familiar with typing into create formal documents like cover letters. Ask your program participants to open a new document on their device (eg in Word or Google Docs). Ask them to type up the letters in this practice activity, making sure to use capital letters, punctuation and new lines to break up paragraphs. Edit the content in the practice…

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Creating documents: Activity for Word https://goodthingsaustralia.org/mentor-resource/creating-documents-activity-for-word/ Wed, 03 Jul 2024 00:20:05 +0000 https://goodthingsaustralia.org/?post_type=teaching-resource&p=5221 This practice activity helps people to learn basic skills in creating documents. It covers formatting text with bold and colours. Resource downloads as a Word document (.docx). Ask your learners to open it in Word on their device and follow the instructions to format their document. You can also use these activity instructions in other document software like Google docs.

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