Printed Materials meet Online Courses. Now let's make these digital skills stick.
Seniors learn digital skills more effectively when they have our printed materials to guide them. We have mirrored this content in our online courses giving them two fantastic tools to repeat lessons as needed and learn at their own pace. Add volunteer-supported learning experiences into the mix, and you have a winning formula for helping seniors master the essentials.
Complete Digital Skills Courses
People learn digital skills in different ways. But consistency is key to creating compelling learning moments whenever they happen. Gluu Essentials supports different approaches for seniors to learn essential digital skills—printed materials, online classes, and volunteer-led sessions. All lessons are mirrored across all of our learning resources. This means Online Classes and volunteer-led sessions discuss the same lessons students see in their Student Workbooks. Easy peasy.
This cohesive experience makes it more manageable for volunteers to teach essential digital skills and simpler for seniors to repeat lessons where needed or learn at their own pace.
All Gluu Essentials Online Courses are free. Student Workbooks are free for registered Seniors’ Organizations while supplies last.
Starting in early 2022, we will be offering the following Gluu Essentials Courses and accompanying Student Workbooks:
- Gluu Essentials for iPad
- Gluu Essentials for iPhone
- Gluu Essentials for Samsung Galaxy Tablets
50+ lessons to learn the essentials
Here is the overview of topics covered in Gluu Essentials:
- Device use and care
- Search and browse securely
- Setting up and managing online accounts
- Digital security tips to stay safe online
- Manage passwords easily
- Email basics and how to control Junk mail
- Get started with apps
- How to use Zoom
- Facebook basics
Gluu Essentials in Print
Our Student Workbooks mirror the content in our Online Courses and in the Lesson Plans used for volunteer-led sessions.
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Seniors can only get a copy of a Student Workbook through a registered Seniors’ Organization. We are not able to ship directly to seniors.
- Over 100 pages
- Coil bound so they lay flat
- Written in plain English
- Helpful articles
- Full-colour screenshots, and detailed step-by-step instructions
- Designed with big fonts for easy reading
- Lots of space to take notes
- Gluu Glossary makes sense of any jargon that creeps in
Gluu Essentials Online
Gluu founder Linda Fawcus hosts Gluu Essentials Online courses. Students are expertly guided through easily digestible video lessons with step-by-step instructions that cover the essential digital skills.
Using Gluu Essentials Online, seniors learn independently, at their own pace. There are no classes to attend and no schedule to follow. Courses are accessed on-demand anytime from any device with an internet connection. This makes it easy to repeat lessons when needed. As questions arise, seniors can submit them to our Ask Gluu help desk. We answer those questions that benefit our whole community. Sadly, we are not funded to offer personal tech support help.
All students are invited to Technology Tuesday Live Events. During these interactive, live classes, students can ask questions and dive into new topics. Our Live Events are a great way to climb the learning curve and get to know the Gluu community.
- Easily digestible video lessons with step-by-step instructions
- No classes to attend and no schedule to follow
- On-demand from any device with an internet connection
- Easy to repeat lessons when needed
- Ask Gluu help desk answers popular questions
- Invitations to Technology Tuesday Live Events
- Become part of the Gluu online community