Print this page Tech Savvy Seniors: Intro to Email Part 1

This beginners’ workshop covers the basic steps you need to help keep in touch with your family and friends using email. It will explain how to set up an email account, how to send an email, and how to read and reply to emails that have been sent to you. Setting up your own email account will allow you to communicate with people you know in ways you never thought possible. 

In this beginners workshop you will learn how to:

• create an email account with Gmail
• read emails that have been sent to you
• compose an email, including filling in the recipient’s email address, subject line and email contents
• reply to somebody else’s email
• forward an email onto a third party.

Please note you must bring your own fully charged device, charger, a notepad and pen. Courses will be held at WEA House, with no more than 10 participants per class.

The Tech Savvy Seniors program is for seniors aged 60 years and above, and Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander elders aged 50 years and above in NSW who:

•  Have little or no experience in using technologies
•  Require additional skills and confidence to use and adapt to new technologies

This program (held in partnership with the NSW Government and Telstra) delivers government-funded digital literacy training to seniors so they can develop the skills and confidence to access information and services online, or connect with family and friends.