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Is This Thing On?: A Friendly Guide to Everything Digital for Newbies, Technophobes, and the Kicking & Screaming
A personal trainer for the digitally challenged.
Abby Stokes is the hand-holding expert who knows how to teach the joys of technology to anyone who didn’t grow up using a keyboard or mouse.
You’ll learn how to shop for a computer or tablet that’s just right for you. How to sign up for Internet and email access. How to understand and use search engines, and get started with word processing and text messaging. How to choose a smartphone. How to participate in social media like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, YouTube, and more. And, importantly, how to protect your online security, and what to do when things go wrong.
Includes both Apple and PC keyboard shortcuts and more than 200 recommended websites and 100 free mobile apples.
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Abby Stokes is the hand-holding expert who knows how to teach the joys of technology to anyone who didn’t grow up using a keyboard or mouse.
You’ll learn how to shop for a computer or tablet that’s just right for you. How to sign up for Internet and email access. How to understand and use search engines, and get started with word processing and text messaging. How to choose a smartphone. How to participate in social media like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, YouTube, and more. And, importantly, how to protect your online security, and what to do when things go wrong.
Includes both Apple and PC keyboard shortcuts and more than 200 recommended websites and 100 free mobile apples.
Learn to:
488 pages, Paperback
First published August 22, 2008
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About the author
Abby Stokes
7 books5 followersAbby Stokes has single-handedly helped a quarter million Digitally Challenged people cross the Digital Divide and get online. Over the past 20 years, she's visited more than 22 states, 120 public libraries, over 100 senior centers/computer clubs and has hosted webinars across the country.
Like a personal trainer for the digital age, Abby is the hand-holding, motivating expert that newbies—specifically older newbies—turn to when they want to become digitally literate.
Abby has taught courses in basic computing at both Cooper Union and New York University's School of Lifelong Learning, as well as computer skills to private and corporate clients. She has lectured on the topic across the country. A firm believer that "if my mother can learn the computer anyone can," Abby is confident that everyone can master the computer and navigate the Internet.
Abby is the author of "Is This Thing On?" A Friendly Guide to Everything Digital for Newbies, Technophobes, and the Kicking & Screaming, Dinner Party Disasters: True Stories of Culinary Catastrophe, and It's Never Too Late to Love a Computer. She splits her time between New York City and Niantic, Connecticut.
Like a personal trainer for the digital age, Abby is the hand-holding, motivating expert that newbies—specifically older newbies—turn to when they want to become digitally literate.
Abby has taught courses in basic computing at both Cooper Union and New York University's School of Lifelong Learning, as well as computer skills to private and corporate clients. She has lectured on the topic across the country. A firm believer that "if my mother can learn the computer anyone can," Abby is confident that everyone can master the computer and navigate the Internet.
Abby is the author of "Is This Thing On?" A Friendly Guide to Everything Digital for Newbies, Technophobes, and the Kicking & Screaming, Dinner Party Disasters: True Stories of Culinary Catastrophe, and It's Never Too Late to Love a Computer. She splits her time between New York City and Niantic, Connecticut.
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