Keeping IT in the Family is a witty idea launched by Digital Birmingham and the Birmingham City Council aiming to encourage families to use ICT.
The initiative commissioned by Microsoft and developed by Citizens Online uses a series of guides in ‘Comic’ format. The emphasis of the comics is to help young people and children give advice to adults on using the internet, email and digital photography.
There are five comics covering the basics of ICT including searching the internet and shopping.
Birmingham pupil 13-year old Sherbaz Khan, won the city’s ‘Keeping IT in the Family’ award after teaching his granny how to use a computer using the comics.
“For me it was an outstanding experience teaching someone instead of being taught,” said Sherbaz.
“I started teaching my grandma because I wanted her to improve
her life. Despite having a computer, she didn’t know how to use it. The ‘Keeping IT in the family’ booklet gave me the idea and I taught her step by step each week how to start the computer, use Word to write her stories and, most importantly, how to use the internet safely to do her online shopping.”
The series of five comics is free to download from Digital Birmingham IT Tools & Resources.
Source Citizens Online.
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