2025 the main event
AI and ChatGPT 101 – A Beginner’s Guide for Seniors
When: Thursday 11th – 18th – 25th September
Thursday 9th – 16th October
When: 12:30 – 2:30pm
Where: Level 1 Anvil House – Room 11
Presenter: Soren Neupane
Course Outline
Soren, a new member, has volunteered to run a series of Hands-on courses (in a fun way) of introducing AI & ChatGPT to our members.
Learning Objectives
By the end of this lesson, participants will be able to:
2024 some of the events
Members Forum
When: Friday 17th May, 2024
Where: Level 1 Anvil House, 138-140 Wakefield Street
Guest Speaker: Corrina Gordon and Adrian Humphris
Wellington City Archives.
A continuation of the Members Forum series.
Continuing the story of old Wellington – how the photos were found, stored and now digitised, and how we can access them.
Preserving the visual memory of Wellington: The story of our photos.
TradeMe Workshops
Session 1 and 2
Thursday 28th August 2024
Help from the experts! Bring your device and one of our Customer Experience experts will help you with whatever you want to learn on TradeMe
Venue is: TradeMe Building (meet at Anvil House)
Members’ Forum
When: Friday 16th August 2024
Where: Level 1 Anvil House, 138-140 Wakefield Street
Guest Speaker: Tom McGrath
Writing family and wartime history on elderly Toshiba Laptop
This is the third in this year’s Members Forum series
In this presentation, author and Seniornet member Tom McGrath discusses his new book “Wartime Secrets from the Family Home”.
He describes how the book got started after a chance discovery of wartime family memorabilia (letters and photos) which he says have never been on the internet. Unique eye-witness commentary, previously unknown views and experiences from WW1 and WW2, and unexpected post-war outcomes are part of the presentation. Tom will also share some of his tips on writing and editing using “Word”.
Fire Safety & Lithium Batteries
Friday 14 June 2024 Session
Presenter: Jamie Gray, Advisor, Readiness and Recovery
Our Guest Speaker from Fire and Emergency NZ will give a presentation on Fire Safety measures, including the use, management, storage and disposal of Lithium batteries.
This is a repeat of the very popular session in November l2023
Advance Care Planning
Friday: 12th April 12:30pm to 2:30pm
Presenter: Kay Webster, Age Concern
Thinking about, talking about and planning for our health and end of life care is important but naturally not something we want to tackle. In this session Kay Webster from Age Concern will talk us through how to write an Advance Care Plan: what matters most to us, what are our preferences for care, what needs to be written down, who do we share our plan with?
Kay advises people on how to tackle this which can be sensitive and difficult so this session will be very valuable for those who would like to know where to start or have been procrastinating on completing a plan.
2023 most interesting event
Exploring the Benefits of the Super Gold Card
This event was – Thursday 31st August 2023
Presenter: Tim Bryers
Tim Bryers, Key Account Manager SuperGold Card, MBIE has given members a tour of the SuperGold Card website and the phone app. This presentation will be more of a ‘how to use’ the site. You are missing the many benefits of the SuperGold Card if you don’t attend this presentation.
Below is additional advice on using Super Gold cards
from GWRC, Dated 4/09/23
Writer has – checked with our fares and ticketing experts, and they’ve advised that digital copies of SuperGold cards should not be accepted as proof of entitlement. We appreciate the some drivers apply their own discretion in accepting photographs of GoldCards on cell phones, but it’s against policy.
Only physical cards are considered as valid proof of entitlement primarily on the basis that the SuperGold scheme which is a national scheme does not offer any digital version of SuperGold cards. The only cards that are officially valid are physical cards.
There are plans to make SuperGold available on a Snapper card in the lead up to the National Ticketing Solution. This is expected to reduce the need for the card holders to show their cards each time they use services. Government announced fare changes for children, youth and Community Services Card holders have delayed the introduction of this card (it’s literally a gold coloured Snapper card).