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Friday, April 23, 2010

Week two

Well, what can I say about Zamzar? But it is great. I actually used it today for real! I had a pdf file emailed to me and it was a form I had to fill in. At first I printed the form out then I wrote on it in pen but it looked scruffy, and then guess what? Lesson two, Zamzar! So like most things on the net, it takes me a bit longer than others to figure out what I am doing, but i did it! (with a little help from my friends.) I wanted to convert the form to a docs document that I could type into, so I had to send it to an email address. Ok so first attempt I put in my work email and ooops! tried to download it and found it was blocked. (I probably did something wrong there too when trying to open it). Second attempt sent it to my gmail address and managed to download it ok. After that I completed the form and emailed it back to the sender and lesson two, done!
I will use this again, as long as I remember it. I will try to remember it, as I think it is great, and best of all, it is free!
I am sure the customers will find it very useful, we often get customers asking about converting files and things like that. As long as they have an email address they can send it to.

Monday, April 19, 2010

Week one April 2010

Well I finally made it back on to my blog. What a time I have had!!
This has been a learning experience all on it's own. What have I learnt? Well firstly, if you have a blog and then change email addresses, and delete your email address, you cannot access your blog. Luckily after a few frustrating hours of trying to log in and then reset my password, I managed to access a recovery password that luckily reactivated the email address, and, guess what? Here I am, logged back in and ready to go!
What do I want to learn from this blog? I am not sure yet, but lesson one went well, I made it back.
After doing the Web 2 the first time around and not really being sure of what i was doing, I feel I have learnt quite a lot. And since then, what with helping customers and exploring the net even more I think this will be a handy tool in my job. I am looking forward to the discovery exercises each week.

Monday, February 16, 2009

The 23rd Thing

Now I have completed my Web 2 learning it is time to reflect on what I have learnt.
Some of it is very useful for me and I am sure that I will be using some of it at a later date but some I found quite confusing. Not being a person who finds these technical things second nature, I needed help with a few of the steps along the way.
The RSS feeds, for example, was completely foreign and I didn't really understand it.
It was hard to get into some of the sites from our staff PC's which meant having to use the learn-net and to be honest, I find that if I am at a strange computer and not in my own surroundings, then it makes it even harder to concentrate and understand.
The social networking and You tube were the best part of the whole experience, but soon I suppose it will all be obsolete anyway. Then we will be on to Web 3!

Thursday, February 12, 2009

EBooks

E Books are ok but I wouldn't want to read a book online, I prefer to read a book that I can hold.

Podcasts

I had a look at the site, podcast.com and found it quite interesting, I was watching the ABC news and found the quality very good. There was a news story about Barack Obama and the picture quality was great.
My preference though, it Youtube, but maybe if I had time to browse more, I might find more interesting things on podcast.com. This is probably not something I would look at normally but as it was part of our web 2 training I found it rather interesting.

Google Docs

I have managed to successfully transport my instructions for the staff fax machine from google Docs to my blog.
It wasn't too hard but I needed a bit of advice from others. It doesn't come naturally to me like it does to some people, but once I am shown what to do, then it all makes sense.