Whether it’s a morning tea, BBQ, or trivia night, hosting a digital skills event is a great opportunity for people to receive local support in a friendly way.
Here are some fun Get Online Week event ideas to get you started.
BONUS: We’ve even listed the types of digital skills each event will help you to teach!
Five fun and easy Get Online Week event ideas to help you close the digital divide.
Organise a coffee hour and challenge everyone to search online for the best coffee in your town.
Cook up a techie BBQ where everyone can get their tech questions answered over a sausage sizzle.
Plan your dream trip with AI. Challenge AI to find the cheapest way to Rome (and the best pasta).
Play online shopping bingo. Who can find the cheapest milk? Best reviewed fridge? Have prizes ready for the winner.
Invite a guest speaker. Ask them to present to your group on a topic like online safety then practice what you learnt.
Host a fun digital skills event in Get Online Week and help your community get online safely and confidently.
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Host a morning tea where you challenge everyone to find the highest rated coffee in your town on Google. Chat about if you all agree with the results. Bonus points if you can find the answer to “What are the 8 main types of coffee in Australia?”. The winner gets a free coffee!
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Invite an expert to come to your event to give a talk on a topic of interest. It could be a local police officer talking about online safety, or a historian explaining how they looked up their family tree online. Ask attendees to look up the topic on their device and share a fun fact they find online.
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Use the Get Online Week event pack playing card set. Hand out one digital skills playing card per pair of learners. Give them 5 to 10 minutes to have a go at that activity, then swap with another pair of learners. activity to the rest of the session.
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Frustrated by tech jargon? Host a fun event where you break down common jargon into plain English. Make it a trivia game and reward people who guess the jargon meaning with a chocolate heart prize! Hand out a jargon cheat sheet for everyone to take home.
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Who can find the cheapest 2L of milk? Who can find the best reviewed fridge in Australia? Create a shopping list for attendees to find online. Ask attendees to open the calculator on their device and add up the cost of their shopping list. Make it a bingo/competition and give prizes for the best online shopper.
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Why was the internet invented? To see funny animals of course!
Host an event where everyone learns how to find cute photos and videos of their favourite animal and share with their friends to brighten their day. Then, make your own funny animal artworks in our AI art gallery.
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Love gardening? Politics? Celebrity interviews? Host an event to teach people how they can find a podcast on their favourite topic. Discuss free vs paid listening options, and downloading vs streaming podcasts. Don’t forget to mention how the recommendation system works to show them more podcasts they can listen to!
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Can you order a coffee in 3 languages? Teach your attendees how to use free Google Translate and apps to translate phrases and websites, or learn a new language. Ask someone at your event who speaks that language to test out how good it is.
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Hold a sausage sizzle at your centre. Invite your community to BYO device and ask you their tech questions. Be ready to share 3 top tech tips so everyone can learn something new!
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Wouldn’t you love to be eating pasta in Italy right now? Host an event where you find the cheapest and quickest way to get from your town to Rome, Italy. Ask AI about the best time to go and hidden gems to make your trip memorable.
Try starting off a digital book club! Gather people to meet, show how to download books to their device (free and paid options). Ask everyone to have a go using features like increasing text size and text-to-voice. Then pick a book and read it together before next month’s catch up. Don’t forget to mention how the recommendation system works in online libraries to show them more things they may like to read!
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Learn how to look up your favourite songs with lyrics on Youtube and sing along. Bonus points for learning how to connect the audio to a Bluetooth speaker or their device to the big screen.
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Showcase how anyone can use AI to plan what to do in their city/area during the weekend on a budget.
Everyone opens ChatGPT on their device and asks: What should I do on the weekend in (Perth, Gold Coast, Melbourne, Brisbane) if I have $20? They can all share their plans and discuss if the info provided was correct and relevant.
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Rotate your attendees through different digital skills ‘stations’ to learn essential tips and tricks. Stop 1: Update emergency contacts in your phone. Stop 2: Add appointments to digital calendars. Stop 3: Check contact details are up to date in government apps. End the session with coffee, cake and a chat about what everyone learnt.
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Can’t use a touchscreen very easily? Struggle to hear what is said in videos? Show event attendees how to use free settings to make their smartphone, tablet or computer easier to use. Hand out our free tip sheet on this topic. Every one who attends gets a free Get Online Week stylus pen to take home!
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We have upskilling webinars, planning guides, grant funding and marketing resources to help you to plan and run a great digital skills event.
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