Anita Wren is based in the South West of England - Torquay to be precise - teaching
on a one-to-one or group basis.

Anita has recently been appointed "Project Co-ordinator for e-Torbay & e-Community" (could she HAVE a longer job title???) The projects are co-financed by the European Social Fund and the Learning and Skills Council and involve reaching targeted groups of learners around the area, introducing ICT in the community, and furthering the skills of volunteers who currently work as enablers within voluntary organisations, so that they may qualify as tutors.

Formerly Joint ICT Coordinator for Torbay and ICT Coordinator at Brixham, she helped to plan the delivery of computer courses for adults in and around Brixham and Torbay and to develop e-learning in other curriculum areas of adult learning.

But she's not just admin, you know - she also teaches computing to adults in Torbay, mainly at Brixham Community College, and has taught Skills for Life Literacy classes to both able bodied adults and those with varying disabilities. In addition to this, Anita has worked as ACE Development Co-ordinator for less able bodied students.
 

She is also a freelance trainer for Business Advantage, a subsidiary of South Devon College. Here, Anita specialises in high end DTP (QuarkXpress & PageMaker) and Digital Photo Techniques, mostly using Photoshop.

During the 1980s, she worked as a portrait photographer for Grosvenor Studios in Middlesex, and has had an interest in computers since the age of 11, when her class used punch cards and knitting needles to find out who was over 5’ 2" blonde, green eyed and male (it wasn‘t her!)

Anita has also contributed to Digital Photo magazine (formerly Digital Photo FX), writing both step-by-step techniques and software reviews, although teaching commitments mean that she has put this on hold for a while. She has given up her 35mm Pentax in favour of two digital cameras - the compact "in your pocket" Olympus c40 Zoom and the slightly larger Canon S2 - with a 10 times optical zoom and full manual controls. She also scans photos on her Canon scanner and has experience of many photo editing programmes but prefers Paint Shop Pro and Adobe Photoshop.