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ONLINE COURSES |
OPEN UNIVERSITY OPENLEARN |
U3A RESOURCE ON OPERA |
The Third Age Trust, our parent organisation with headquarters in Bromley. Other U3As and U3A Networks can be accessed from our home page. |
Tutored online courses are available at Onlinecourses.com. It is a free and comprehensive resource of open college courses that span videos, audio lectures, and notes given by professors at Harvard, Princeton and MIT. |
The Open University Openlearn scheme has a wide variety of online courses which can be found by clicking on the link above, and more from the |
The TAT have issued a list of over 80 operas which have been made available by Paul Foss of Bristol U3A. Each presentation is of a single opera or the operatic works of a composer or covers opera history, and all are designed to fit into a 90-minute session. Most have a handout. If interested please e-mail Paul at paulfoss123@btinternet.com. |
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FUTURELEARN |
UDACITY |
DIGITAL UNITE |
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A new initiative - Massive Open Online Courses |
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Digital Unite has been created specifically to support older people in using computers and the internet. |
WALKS IN KENT |
WALKS ONLINE |
TED TALKS |
OTHER LINKS |
There is now a new website available called Walking in England, which contains a section on Walking in Kent, and has more than 40 walks listed for the Sevenoaks area. For more detail about Kent go to www.walkinginkent.co.uk/ |
Guides to 5,872 walks in England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, France, Spain, Portugal and Norway, with more being posted all the time, are available from www.walkingworld.com. |
Technology, Entertainment and Design (TED) Talks are influential videos from expert speakers on education, business, science, tech and creativity, with subtitles in 100+ languages. |
Other Educational sites: |
Cyber Crime Presentation by the Serious Crime Directorate. This presentation was made at the Computer Group Meeting on the 22nd January 2018 and contains a lot of useful advice on protection of digital data.
ARTICLES FROM THE INTERNET |
ARTICLES FROM NATIONAL U3A |
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The articles on this page can be accessed by visiting various reputable sites on the Internet, or have been provided by our own U3A members. WHICH? magazine also has a complete (free) section on their website which details many of the most frequently encountered computer security problems and how to deal with them. This can be accessed at https://computing.which |
How To Deal With Fraudulent Emails |
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If any member is aware of any good advice to make computer usage faster, easier or safer, please let the web team know and we will add the article to this page. |
CRIME PREVENTION GUIDES |
LITTLE BOOK OF BIG SCAMS |
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Kent Police have produced a series of themed guides providing crime prevention advice.
Visit : www.kent.police.uk/yourguide |
The Metropolitan Police have produced a book which offers plenty of advice about how to avoid being caught out by the numerous scams, which we may come across from time to time. The book covers the following items :
For more information please go to : http://www.met.police |
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GET SAFE ONLINE |
BANK SCAMS |
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The Get Safe Online website at www.getsafeonline.org provides free, independent, user-friendly advice on how to use the internet safely and confidently, under 7 main headings :
There are a multitude of sub-headings within those main groups to help you with specific problems. |
1. A fraudster calls pretending to be the police or from your bank. They claim your bank account has been used fraudulently. |
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2. They tell you to hang up and call the police or bank back to ensure the call is genuine, They stay on the line, so when you redial you think you are through to the police or your bank. They then tell you to give them your PIN number. |
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3, They send a taxi or courier to collect your card. With your card and PIN they can access your money. |
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Cyber Crime Presentation by the Serious Crime Directorate. January 2018 |
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