SmartPeople

Partners:

 

FREE Computer Training located at a library near you.

Bay of Plenty Polytechnic is offering these FREE practical application computing modules as part of the SmartPeople course, run in partnership with Tauranga City and Western Bay of Plenty Libraries. This is made possible by a grant from the Digital Strategy Community Partnership Fund.
 

Practical Applications

Click on the Practical Application below to open.

• Desktop publishing:
  • Creating a business card (PDF, 118kb) 
  • Creating a newsletter (PDF, 182kb) 
  • Creating a compact disk label (PDF, 66kb) 
• Write your auto-biography (PDF, 327kb) 
• Genealogy research using the Internet (PDF, 276kb) 
• Build a personal website (PDF, 227kb) 
• How to create a blog (PDF, 578kb) 
• A basic introduction to Web 2.0 (PDF, 195kb) 
• How to burn a CD using Windows XP (PDF, 216kb) 
• How to put a video onto YouTube (PDF, 1.06MB) 
• How to use a USB flash drive (PDF, 115kb) 

Library Related Modules

• Searching and using the public Library Catalogue (PDF, 458kb) 
• How to use the public Library's online resources (PDF, 1.11MB) 
• Information literacy (how to find reliable information)
• How to preserve your stories online using Tauranga Moana (PDF, 93kb) 

Once SmartPeople students have completed a module at one of our mobile classrooms, you are able to carry on training with the modules listed above at home or at certain days/times at the Bay of Plenty Polytechnic or Tauranga Library & Western Bay of Plenty Libraries (days/times to be announced).

For more information please phone Nikki Kinzett on 5440920 ext 5582 or email Nikki.Kinzett@boppoly.ac.nz.

Tauranga City Libraries Learning Centre:
The learning centre offers you free help and support for using computers and information technology. To access the library learning centre please click on the link below.
Tauranga City Library Learning Centre