Amy Bingham, "Preparing a Story"

Amy Bingham at Nov. Meeting

Our guest speaker this month was Amy Bingham the Broadcast Coordinator of WKU University. She shared with us the process she uses to prepare a story for her weekly show, View from the Hill. She also used to be an Anchor and Producer at WBKO.

All of us have stories. Taking your old photos and editing them with your favorite music or audio of a family story is something everyone can do. Microsoft has Movie Maker delivered in every installation. Amy talked about using Final Cut Pro which is professional platform and costly. Jerry Gillette gave a program before on using Movie Maker. Amy shared that they shoot lots of footage that get edited into 30-45 second sound bites. She then uses most of the material from the part cut out to weave the story between the sound bites. Bring your videos to share at a future meeting.

Next Year & Christmas Party

2015 BGAMUG will move to Hillvue Church

Next year our current meeting place will no longer be available to us. We will be moving to Hillvue Heights Church, 3219 Nashville Rd., Bowling Green.

Christmas Party December 13th 6-8 pm

Our annual Christmas Party is December 13th at Christ Episcopal Church. This is our chance to socialize with all the members of the club and their families. Bring a side dish to share. The club furnishes the Turkey and Ham, drinks and tableware. Arrive between 4-6 pm if you can help with the setup.

We will also have a gift exchange. Bring a gift of suggested value $10-$20. Do not put who the gift was from just label the gift as "Man", "Women", or "Both". You don't have to spend $, it's perfectly acceptable to re-gift something that you received in that price range.

October Meeting at Home Instead 6:30 PM

Home Instead Training Center next to the Greenwood Mall 

right off Gary Farms entrance to the Mall off Campbell.

Be sure to bring a guest if you can for this SPECIAL PRESENTATION Attorney Mike Reynolds will present:

Making & Understanding Wills

Genealogy SIG will meet at 5:30 pm

Program will be on the new records and features on FamilySearch.org 

September’s meeting - HILLVUE CHURCH at 6:30 PM

Be sure to bring a guest if you can for this SPECIAL PRESENTATION on Online Banking. Jonathan McElroy of PNC Bank will be the guest speaker. Use rear entrance for room 301.

Genealogy SIG will meet at 5:45 pm

Jeri recently went to the FGS conference in San Antonio. She has lots of information to share on the state of genealogy. Lots of new records and features on FamilySearch.org and Ancestry.com

How to Get Computer Help on the Web at the August Meeting

This Month's Program:

How to Get Computer Help on the Web 

The August meeting will be held Tuesday, 26th at 6:30 PM. The location is at the Home Instead Training Center near the entrance of Greenwood Mall from Campbell Road.

Also at the meeting, it's the month that we have to have to start the process of finding officers for the next year. Please consider serving on the nominating committee.

Christmas Party

December 13th at 

Christ Episcopal Church

Shout out to some good cooks at the BGAMUG Picnic.

The BGAMUG Picnic was really nice.

The food was great as usual. I have to give a shout out to the Peach dessert, also the Chess Pie, and the BBQ sauce was good too. Something with a crunchy crust (potatoes?) were really good too. Everything was good. There was plenty of room to sit.

We met at Covington Woods Park. The golfers were out in force. We barely got a parking space, but we were lucky and got one.

Jerry told us one of our original people the club donated a computer to has passed away. Everyone except some people who had to leave early played some Bingo after the meal.

People brought electric fans and that helped a lot, because it was HOT on Saturday.

Anyone have some photos? I'd love to see them. I got to talk with a few people, that was fun too.

From Betsy

Picnic this week! Members, check your emails.

PICNIC TIME!

We are having a BGAMUG club picnic very soon - in fact, tomorrow!

Check your emails for details. Contact Jerry G. if you can't find your email.

And bring an electric fan if you have one. It's going to be HOT tomorrow!

B

July 22 meeting on using Videos on YouTube

This month's presentation will be on how to use videos on YouTube.com.  You may have followed a link that someone sent to see a Youtube.com video. Come find out how to use your browser and search engines to find other instructive videos there. There are instructional as well as funny videos on Youtube. You can find everything from how to fix a dripping faucet, how to copy and paste on a PC or use that new cell phone.  Jerry Gillette, the club treasurer, will be the presenter. This month's meeting is at Home Instead's Training Center near Greenwood Mall, right off the Gary Farm entrance from Campbell Lane. Go past the bank and the the second door of the strip mall is the Home Instead Training Center.

June 24th Meeting 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM

at Home Instead Senior Care Training Center

Our June meeting will held at our new meeting place the Home Instead Training Center, Bowling Green, KY. Their address is 2475 Scottsville Rd, Suite 100. But if you try to find it from that you will be confused.  Instead head into the Greenwood Mall on the Gary Farms Rd entrance from Campbell Lane. Go past the bank and the the second door of the strip mall is the Home Instead Training Center.

Program - Windows 8 by Joe Easterling

Come have your questions about Windows 8 answered.

BGAMUG Votes to Meet at Home Instead Senior Care Training

Past President Jerry Gillette put it this way, "Never before in the history of BGAMUG has the membership been able to vote on a meeting location."

With two potential meeting places, the club met in April at the Hillvue Heights Church and in May at Home Instead Training Center. The majority of the members have voted to hold meetings at Home Instead. From Campbell lane turn on Gary Farms Rd toward the Greenwood Mall. Go past the bank and in the first building on the left is Home Instead's training facility.  If you go as far David's bridal go have gone too far.

Please join us at the next meeting on June 24th at 6:30 PM.

March 25th Meeting will be held at the Kentucky Musuem 1400 Kentucky St at 6:30 PM

Reminder! We have a new meeting place at the Kentucky Musuem, 1400 Kentucky St at 6:30 PM. If you are able park across the street from the musuem and save the close parking spaces for those that can't walk as far.  As you drive into the parking lot from the street, look to the left. There are a number of spaces there just for the musuem.

March 25th program by Joe Easterling

KEEPING YOUR PC TUNED UP !

Joe will be talking about the CCleaner and SlimCleaner.

These are utility programs for maintaining your computer and registry.

February 25th meeting at 6:30 pm is at Kentucky Musuem

Reminder! We have a new meeting place at the Kentucky Musuem, 1400 Kentucky St at 6:30 PM. If you are able park across the street from the musuem and save the close parking spaces for those that can't walk as far.  As you drive into the parking lot from the street, look to the left. There are a number of spaces there just for the musuem.

Tuesday night's program is by Jeri Steele on Making Windows 8 behave (like Windows 7). As more and more people buy new computers they will be getting them with Windows 8.  The new Operating System is already on version 8.1 and is in my experience been very stable.  But the interface was designed more for touch screen so it's no obvious what to do to get other programs installed, etc. Come see one way to survive at Windows 8. 

News for 2014 for the BGAMUG Computer Club

More News for 2014

THIS JUST IN - via Jerry G.

 

"This Spring Semester 2014 . . . beginning on January 28 . . . Linda Todd Phelps will be teaching another Desktop Publishing class. The class will be taught in Tate Page Hall on Tuesdays and Thursdays afternoons from 2:20 until 3:40 p.m.  This is a fun class and would be a good learning opportunity for most of our BGAMUG members.

 

We will be using Word 2010 and Windows 7.

For members 65 or over all it will cost is a one-time $40 WKU application fee if they’ve never taken a WKU class and the cost of the textbook which is about $75.

 

Linda will also be teaching two other face-to-face classes in the Spring . . . Keyboarding and Word Processing.

 

If anyone needs help registering, please contact Linda at linda.todd@wku.edu

 

Also, be advised the eboard will be meeting at 5:30 PM, Tuesday 1/7/2014 at our, hopefully, new meeting place, the KY Museum."

 

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We have a new December 2013 BGAMUG Newsletter, BGA-Bytes, for everyone to download from the website that Sharon and Jerry have done, and it looks good. You can download it on the BGAMUG website's Newsletter Archive Page. Just scroll down to find it (it is in the green box.)

In the newsletter, there are some great photos and some news too, plus the usual great, useful articles.

BGAMUG Computer Club has a New Meeting Place!

Our new meeting place is the Kentucky Museum on the WKU Campus.

Look for more news about that after the next Club EBoard Meeting. Jerry will also be working on a map to make it easier to find if you have not been there yet, plus some parking instructions.

Our next meeting (January) is Tuesday, January 28th, at 6:30 p.m.