Very close to the thousands of "campuseros" that these days spend hours in front of their computers, Manuela, a housewife
of 66 years, learn to use the Internet in the
classroom of a "digital inclusion" that have been mounted in the area open to the public of the Campus Party.
"I went to the Internet for the first time 15 days ago and today I came to learn more, call me a lot of attention," says Manuela, a point of attending one of eight courses that are offered daily in this class, equipped with twenty computers throughout the week.
Ana Cabanillas, a training of volunteers in this classroom 1.0, explains that in the first two days and they have many interested in taking their first steps on the website.
"We teach the basics: how to use a search engine, how to send an email. There are people who never took a computer," adds Ana
Others, like Enrique Garcia, a retiree of 68 years, and handled better. "I started using it because of the Internet to see the younger me stimulated. Now I find things to use to send emails, I keep learning new things every day," says Enrique as a monitor tells you how you can unzip files.
Concha, another retired 74 years, also has a little to expand their knowledge of the Internet.
"I thought it was too late to learn, but a couple of years ago I joined the University of listener and I needed Internet. And now I have learned a lot of fan," says Concha who, like most, go to the Web mainly to find
information and send emails.
FOR MORE ADVANCED
Right in front, 2.0 in the classroom, there are many courses to date for the more advanced photo retouching, creating blogs, digital design or programming.
"People used to take the basis of these issues and many have commented that we want to continue learning outside a professional capacity for these things," says Alex Armentia, one of the teachers in this classroom.