Reminder: ATA Online Community Event

Greetings!

FRIENDLY REMINDER! We have an ATA Online Community Event: Strategies and Solutions for Independent Living with Jane Berliss-Vincent tomorrow, December 8, 2009 – an event you don’t want to miss!  Please scroll down for event details as well as Webinar Access Instructions.

We hope to see you online.

Rosemarie Punzalan, Training Manager

Alliance for Technology Access

Strategies and Solutions for Independent Living
This presentation will introduce you to resources that can help elders find out about free or low-cost independent living strategies and solutions, from modified spoons to grooming tips to large-print cell phones. The presentation is based on the ATA’s “Guide to Easier Living with Technology,” which is available online at http://www.ataccess.org/news/default.html.
Presenter: Jane Berliss-Vincent
Date: Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Time: 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM PST
Webinar Level: Introductory
Sharing: Please pass this announcement on to any one who will benefit from this webinar.

Location (Web): ATA Online Community, http://www.talkingcommunities.com/communities/923/
Room: Water Cooler
AOC Contact: Rosemarie Punzalan, rosemariepunzalan@ataccess.org

Webinar Access Instructions

To prepare in advance for this webinar, please follow these instructions:

• If you are new to ATA Online Community and interested in participating in our newly virtual learning and sharing community environment, we encourage you to sign up early so that you can familiarize yourself with the online environment as well as to ensure everything is working on your end.  Please visit our Step by Step First Time ATA Online Community User Sign Up Guide,
  http://www.atnet.org/index.php?page=tcstepbystepguide.  The goal of of our step by step is to guide first time members to sign up.
• To participate, please make sure your computer is a Windows Platform (Mac client is currently in beta testing) with internet access, has speakers to be able to hear while you are in the webinar or preferably a microphone as we will be using VOIP (talking over a computer rather than a telephone).  A microphone is not required for the webinar.  You may participate in the webinar without a microphone by typing in your questions and comments into the public text box on the screen.  If you do not have a microphone, you may purchase one from any electronics store between $15.00 – $50.00.
• Attendee(s) may join by using the the following link with their User Name and Password: http://www.talkingcommunities.com/communities/923/