Wednesday 27 July 2011

Footy Tipping Round 18 Results

A total of 9 people in our competition got all 8 tips correct this week, well done!! The winner of the round was Ruth from Lameroo, Ruth had 8 correct tips and the lowest margin for the round. The overall leader of the competition continues to be Merv with Kath from Murray Bridge, Ruth from Lameroo and John from Renmark close behind. Although we have finished our fortnightly meetings with you all we will still be keeping the football tipping competition going and will post the weekly results so stay tuned!

Friday 22 July 2011

Footy Tipping Round 17 Results

Hi all - last week's winner in our footy tipping competition was Elsie from Lameroo. Elsie got 7 correct tips, quite a feat seeing she got 2 more correct than anyone else this week! Merv is still on top of the ladder, edging out in front of John by 2. Let's see what happens this week!

Friday 15 July 2011

Excel Tutorials

Hi all, Some of you who have laptops have expressed an interest in learning how to use the spreadsheet program Microsoft Excel. We have found a website with some free tutorials which may be useful. The website covers many different topics, just click on what you are interested in learning about on the top of the screen and a number of links to videos on that topic will appear in the middle of the screen. Select the video you would like to view and a new page will come up giving you a demonstration. On the top left hand side of the screen there is a button you can press to ‘Try it yourself’. There are also links to free tutorials about the Microsoft Word (used for typing documents) and Powerpoint (used for creating slideshows for presenations) on this website. Click on the link below to be taken to the website: http://www.free-training-tutorial.com/format-cells.html

Footy Tipping Results Round 16

Hi everyone - I'm getting in with last week's footy tipping results just in time before round 17 begins...our winner last week was Heather from our Murray Bridge group. This is the 3rd time Heather has won a week of tipping in our competition!! Excellent work Heather...Heather claims she doesn't know anything about football but I'm not so sure ;) In other news Merv from Lameroo, who has been on top of the overall ladder since the season started, is now tied for first place with John from Renmark. The pressure is really on now...what will the ladder look like after this round?

Tuesday 5 July 2011

Website for people aged 50+

Hi everyone, We thought you might be interested in having a look at the following website - just click on the underlined words below and you will be directed there: http://www.yourlifechoices.com.au/ 'Your life choices' is a website for Australians aged 50+ that provides information on a range of topics including health, travel, finance and technology. Have a look and see what you think.

Footy Tipping Competition Update

Hi all - I have missed a few weeks of footy tipping updates so I'm here to get everyone up to speed...our winner for round 13 was Alison from our Murray Bridge group, Alison was the only person to get 7 correct tips this week. The winner for round 14 was Ruth from our Lameroo group - Ruth is very sneakily creeping in on Merv's overall lead in the competition, look out Merv! In the last round of footy tipping, round 15, we had a tie for first place. Heather and Alison, both from our Murray Bridge group, got 6 tips correct and the same margin. This is the 2nd time Alison has won our footy tipping competition and the 3rd time Heather has won, well done!!