TVCUC

Our current numbers are: 418 systems given away and 698 children in the homes that received the systems. We had an interview with Loudon County United Way on Tuesday, asking for more funding for the upcoming year. If we can get additional funding, we will attempt to rent the other side of the building so we will have more room to produce more systems for more students. We just found out that a company in Knoxville is going to give us 35 computers. We are going to need room to store and work on them.

At the March 2, 2010 meeting Kevin Alfont talked to us about IT Resources in Tellico Village.  We have a surprisingly complex network and Kevin explained it well.   You can see it all here. 

Tellico's IT people have also started a newsletter called Geek Times.  You can read the inaugaural issue here. It's got some interesting stuff in it.  Did you know that the TVPOA staff receives over 100 thousand emails every month?  Or how about this:  The Facebook game Farmville has more than 80 million users! 

You never heard of Farmville?  Well neither had I.

Tellico Village Computer Users Club runs clinics and classes in the computer room (Room D) at the Chota Rec Center. We are always intereted in finding teachers for courses.

The current schedule for activities is:

Thurs 2/25 - 9 AM-12 noon - How Your Computer Works (a show and tell)
Sat 2/27 - 1-4 PM - Excel Investment Tracking course
Wed 3/3 - 9-11 AM - Basic Excel session 3 (for those who have completed sessions 1 and 2)
Thu 3/4 - 1-3 PM - Basic Excel session 1 (for those new to Excel)
Thu 3/4 - 3-5 PM Open House (bring in your problems or questions)
Mon 3/8 - 1-3 PM - Basic Excel session 2 (for those who have completed session 1)
Mon 3/8 - 3:30-4:30 - How Your Computer Works (a show and tell)
Tue 3/9 - 9-11 AM - Open House (bring in your problems or questions)
Mon 3/15 - 3-5 PM - Basic Excel session 3 (for those who have completed sessions 1 and 2)
Wed 3/17 - 1-4 PM - Open House (bring in your problems or questions)
Thu 3/18 - 9-11 AM - Basic Excel session 1 (for those new to Excel)
Tue 3/23 - 9-11 AM - Basic Excel session 2 (for those who have completed session 1)
Fri 3/26 - 9-11 AM - Basic Excel session 3 (for those who have completed sessions 1 and 2)
Fri 3/26 - 11:30-12:30 - Investment Tracking with Excel
Wed 3/31 - 9-10 - Investment Tracking with Excel
Wed 3/31 - 10:30-11:30 AM - How Your Computer Works (a show and tell)

Note: the Basic Excel class is a multi-session course and is subject to the $5.00 fee (for the entire series of sessions) per the requirements set by the TVCUC board. All other classes listed above are one session and do not require a fee.

Further information on these courses may be found here.

Volunteers to teach welcome! Contact Bob Mugge through info@tvcuc.org

Computer Repair Caller : Hi, our printer is not working.
Customer Service: What is wrong with it?
Caller : Mouse is jammed.
Customer Service: Mouse? Printers don't have a mouse !
Caller: Mmmmm??.. Oh really?... I will send a picture.

Thanks to Bob Kutschera

We are approaching giving away our 400th system. As of February 9, 2010, we have given away 395 systems. There are 666 children in the homes that have received the systems.