Ever been to home for the year-end holidays and find your parents asking you to help them with “geeky tasks” like uploading photos to the Internet? Believe it or not, you’re not alone.
Obviously a bunch of people over at Google find themselves in this situation nearly every time they visit their families around this time of year. That’s why they’ve launched TeachParentsTech.org, a “tech support care package” that’s meant to help kids teach parents about computer basics.
According to a Google blog post, the site allows users to select more than 50 basic how-to videos they could send to parents — or frankly, anyone else who might need a little tech help. The videos cover topics from copying and pasting to sharing large files. The recipient will receive a message from the sender, along with a link to the selected videos.
In addition, the first 10,000 to send one of these online packages will have the chance to send real tech support care packages via snail mail to a recipient of choice at no cost. At the time this post was written, nearly 2,000 parents had been “served.”
This is a guest article by Pete Austin who also writes for Radiology Technician and Online Psychology Degree.
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Yes. I read this on the google blogspot.
Great initiative.
Nice info…thanks for sharing…..
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Hehe.. this might be really great for parents of Geeks
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Hello there, I have been searching the internet for a couple of days now and I find your article very interesting so I thought I’d leave you a short note to say what a terrific resource I believe you have going here, carry on the good work.
This is a great present for non-techie parents, and there are a lot of them. LOL!
Absolutely Rochelle. Thanks for visiting TechChunks.com, by the way. Hoping to see you again and often
I am fairly savvy with using computers, but I have never caught on to using a cell phone for more than phone calls and texting. Just yesterday I had to ask my 10 year old how to add a music ringtone. Embarrassing.