Kathy Is Using Her Advanced iPhone Class Skills To Help A Friend Sell A Ticket On eBay

Kathy Is Using Her Advanced iPhone Class Skills To Help A Friend Sell A Ticket On eBay
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Kathy is a retired English as a Second Language Teacher and Trainer. She’s had the chance to teach in China and Vietnam, which gave her a real appreciation for people’s differences. Kathy keeps herself busy with various classes.

“I’m a professional at whatever is free and inexpensive. So I take a lot of online classes from a lot of different places.”

She first stumbled upon GetSetUp through Facebook. Despite taking lots of free classes on different sites like Coursera, she thinks GetSetUp is different.

“I think the biggest difference is that the class is full of seniors. They are seniors who want to learn. They are more interested in learning a skill as opposed to taking a full course, so it is quite different in the people and content. With GetSetUp you learn useful things and something you can walk away and do.”

Staying Active and Connected

The pandemic hasn’t been easy on Kathy. She hasn’t been able to see many people, including her cancer support group. That makes it important to keep active and involved with people as much as possible. One of the few fun activities getting her out and about is her walking group.

“I belong to a group that does folk marches. They started in Germany. They walk 5k or 10k walks together in a group.”

These local groups do fun walks, and one of the spots Kathy would like to plan a group walk is near the blossoms of the Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center (OARDC). She remembers visiting there before in one of her many athletic adventures.

She once biked from Akron, Ohio up to Lake Erie. And she did her first, and only triathlon at age 75!

“I am happy to have done it but I wouldn’t do it again.”

When she’s not staying active, she’s been really enjoying learning new things like how to protect her passwords, advanced iPhone tools, and her favorite class so far has been playing brain games.

Gathering a Community of Life-Long Learners

Kathy has been sharing GetSetUp classes with her friends. Her friends recognize her knowledge, and Kathy has been able to use the skills she learned at GetSetUp to help a friend. In the advanced iPhone class, Kathy learned about an app that lets you scan an image in excellent quality. So she could help a friend sell a ticket on eBay.

“I am helping to sell a ticket to a fight in 1935 on eBay now. I’m using what I learned in one of the recent classes about an Adobe Scan App that can help you scan a photograph.”

Kathy’s friend hopes to sell the ticket for about $21, which is the current price for similar tickets. Thanks to Kathy’s help, she was able to get a great scanned image of the ticket to post on eBay.

Kathy and the GetSetUp community are full of passionate learners. This year for the holidays, her kids got her a new Alexa, so she’s looking to take an Alexa course next to learn more about how to use her latest new tech toy.

Bite-Sized Classes of Just One Hour

One of the things Kathy appreciates about GetSetUp is their learning-through-doing approach.

“I like the fact that they are hands-on and the structure such that you can interrupt and ask questions makes them different from other courses I have taken. I also like the fact they send you notes after.”

The fact that classes are short, just one hour long, means that they easily fit into free time in someone’s schedule. Learners can also jump into classes last minute with the Get In feature.

“I have really enjoyed being able to take classes. It’s the perfect arrangement. They are free and just an hour long.”

Exploring Virtual Adventures

Kathy is considering exploring getting to know more people through some of the social hours. She finds the social aspect an added advantage to the classes, especially during the pandemic.

As a well-traveled and passionate traveler, sitting at home has been a bit confining. She’s considering taking some of her fellow learners on a virtual trip. She may host an Ambassador-led Interest Group around some of the places she has traveled to, like Iceland, or her time living in China and Vietnam.

Consider joining Kathy on your next virtual adventure and join a GetSetUp class!