We are launching a new version of the Kobo Digital Book Club!
Are you interested in creating an opportunity to host monthly book club meetings? We at Tech Coaches have partnered with Rakuten Kobo Inc. to introduce a new way for retirement communities to successfully enjoy a common interest; reading.
If you know a retirement community that would be interested in this amazing free opportunity for their residents please contact us!
The amazing thing about Kobo devices is that it makes reading from a device virtually accessible anywhere you are, from on-the-go or in the convenience of their own suite. In support of lifelong learning, we hope to connect seniors with these devices to ignite their passion of reading. Tech Coaches is very eager to launch this program in order for retirement communities to embrace technology and help them use it in their everyday lives.
The Kobo Digital Book club was created to grant seniors the ability to embrace technology and social inclusion through reading. It operates by providing groups of seniors with their very own Kobo reader device with pre-set digital books downloaded to read on them. We offer training to staff so they can best help those who’d like to participate.
The training includes technical support so that staff members can effectively teach the club members how to use a Kobo device until they are fully comfortable and confident in navigating through the device by themselves. Any retirement community interested in this program will receive up to 20 free set up devices with preloaded books and the availability to add many more of interest.
Our goal is to train a staff member on the devices so they can in turn train the interested residents, then start to run monthly club meetings. Our training will target setting up the staff member to be a support system in place to solve any technological obstacles that may arise with the devices.
To ensure safety, the training done from us to the staff member will all be virtual. Stay tuned for more updates in the future once we officially launch this program.
- Kelly Tong (Technology Reporter/Researcher @ Tech Coaches)