Whilst we don't condone second-guessing what Santa may bring, or sneaking a peak at the gifts under your tree, we do predict that, come Christmas morning, many more Wrexham and Flintshire residents will be the (delete as appropriate) proud / petrified / perturbed owners of a shiny new tablet computer.

We've searched the internet to find two of the best articles offering hints and tips for new tablet users:

Gizmo's Freeware 'The Best Android Tips and Tricks' page from November 2013 provides a concise overview of the Android operating system and an index allowing you to easily locate the help and advice you need.

Digital Unite's 'Guide to Tablet computers' provides information written in plain English for those encountering iPads for the first time.  Overviews of the Kindle Fire and the Samsung Galaxy Tab can be found here too.

So, whether you're a new tablet owner, or know someone who is, we hope you find these useful.

Come the New Year, the 'Get online Wrexham Flintshire' team will continue to offer FREE, informal 'Absolute Beginners' courses to people with little or no experience of computers and the internet.  If you're reading this, you may not fall into this category, however, if you know someone who does, please encourage them to get in touch, and help us in our mission to ensure more local people benefit from the internet, as both citizens and consumers.

Alison attended our Absolute Beginners course at Connah's Quay library in May.

We're very grateful to Alison for sharing her experience and we hope her words will inspire local people to get in touch and find out more about what the internet is, how you can benefit from using it and how to get online and try it for yourself.

New dates will be available soon.

After overwhelming demand for our basic 'WordPress for the Third Sector' course we will be looking to arrange new dates shortly. To register your interest please email: pete.fuller@flvc.org.uk with the subject wordpress.

Get online Wrexham Flintshire, the project working to increase internet use amongst local people, is pleased to announce that its first cohort of digital champion volunteers has completed initial training.  Each member of the group is an asset to the project, working very well as a supportive team, showing great dedication and entertaining the facilitators throughout the two-day 'train the trainer' course.

Volunteers are vital to the project, delivering basic internet skills training to people throughout Wrexham and Flintshire. With around 32 percent of the local population having little or no experience of the internet, our champions are ready, able and eager to welcome learners into the online world, and allow them to experience its benefits first hand with an Absolute Beginners training course. The six-hour course is delivered over two or three sessions at libraries and centres across Wrexham and Flintshire.

To book a place on a course, or to find out more about the project, please contact:

Mel Salisbury, Digital Inclusion Outreach Officer for Flintshire
Mel.salisbury@flvc.org.uk
Tel: 01352 744026

Steve Robinson,Digital Inclusion Outreach Officer for Wrexham
Steve.robinson@wrexham.gov.uk
Tel: 01978 722988

(Picture - L to R - Steve, Frances, Teresa, Mel Salisbury, David, Jeremy, Alan)

We have recently begun our PassITon training courses to staff at organisations and enterprises to highlight the benefits of ICT to them. In turn they will use this information to better inform their service users. The courses were a big hit with more booked already. Click on the tab above to see more information.