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The Via Linda SeniorNet Computer Learning Center provides classes for Senior Adults on the use of computers and communications technologies so that they may enhance their lives and share their wisdom and knowledge with others. The Center is a member of SeniorNet, a national educational non-profit organization, that has over 25,000 members and offers classes in over 240 Learning Centers across the country and growing with over 5,000 dedicated volunteers. All of the instructors and coaches in the Learning Center are VOLUNTEERS. At any one time, MORE than 50 volunteers are active in the VIA LINDA SENIORNET COMPUTER LEARNING CENTER CLASSES.
2008 was SeniorNet's 22nd year
It was founded in 1986, and has been growing from a handful of centers, to an organization referred to as "the world's leading technology educator of older adults". With the 240 centers in the U.S. and centers in Japan, Sweden, Malaysia and New Zealand, makes it an international organization.
[This is a nonprofit organization]
For more information about SeniorNet,
go to their Web Site at www.seniornet.org
The Via Linda Computer Learning Center
ORGANIZATIONAL HISTORY
The SeniorNet Learning Center was organized under a grant given to the
City of Scottsdale Via Linda Senior Center in April of 1997. It is located in the City of Scottsdale, Arizona. The initial body of volunteers were recruited and trained in August of 1997 by members of the SeniorNet National Headquarters. Since our classes started in September of 1997, we have had over 2000 students enroll in the classes. At each sign-up for classes, we also had a wait list. In the Fall of 2001, we moved into a new area built especially for computers, with 18 student computers.
