Finished!

Well, I have completed the tasks for this training and found it to be far less stressful than the previous traning. Having less tasks made it appear easier and it was. No time for the brain to go into overdrive with learning new terms. (At least I did make use of the blog set up in the original traning.)
I did find this training interesting although I am not sure wheter I will use it again. I have been using Facebook while my daughter was overseas so this was not too arduous and I had made the plethora of mistakes with this before training started and I was a bit more wiser?!
(have written down various passwords in case another round of training pops up in the future and I might be a step ahead of myself!)

Week 6: Facebook

I had my learning curve for Fcaebook when my daughter went overseas recently on her honeymoon. "Forced" to join facebook to keep up with their travelblog brought many new learnings. My first message to them was there for everyone to see, so I learnt how to do personal messages just for them. The previous Web 2 training stood me in good stead on how to edit a photo of myself and put it on my Facebook profile.
Amazing how many people pop up to be your friend - some I have not heard from since school days. I have now slowed down and am being a bit more selective of "ticking" the box. Not being an avid user of the internet I could miss important messages.
But for the avid social internet user facebook is great. Photos are another matter under consideration by copyright at the moment. Travel blogs are a boon both to the reader and the people travelling - no more writing screeds of letters or emails as well as having an everyday diary always for your own records

Week 5 : music files and mp3s

This was a voyage of discovery. I chose theItsfreedownloads.com site - mainly as I have itunes loaded on my home computer (which as you probably guess I have not used even after one year!). I was amazed to find that not only music but TV shows, videos and Audiobooks were also available for down loading A chapter only at a time for Janet evanovich and Da Vinci Code.
Looking for NZ music, I could not find Split Enz, Crowded house or Dave Dobbyn - although there was a mention of Split Enz and Crowded House when I did a search on Bic Runga. There was an additional link to Neil Finn and Tim Finn on that.
As for the main music menu, I find I am out of touch totally with modern music and artists. The next step would be to actually download music (but not on my dial up connection!)
For the avid music/ipod lover, there would be much to get from this site - both in being up to date weekly as well as for older types of music.

Week 4 : good Reads

Oh to have heaps of time! This site appeals to the librarian in me, and wanting to know what else is available out there to read. For a keen reader this site would be invaluable. It is way to keep tabs on what you have read, who else likes the same kinds of books and could perhaps point you to other authors, the ability to join a book club, etc. I wonder whether I would spend too much time reading what others think and forget to read myself! Great little site which I hope to revisit.

Week 3: Twitter.
Boy, certainly is hard to keep to the number of characters! I guess I am more of a tui garble than a little bird tweet! If I spent a lot of time online and using Twitter as a social contact, I might use this. I find it slightly annoying as I would rather pick up a phone and talk to someone, or use facebook and send longer messages. I don't think I would use this site again, but can see the possibilities for a business (or libraries) to use this as a promotion site for upcoming events. It might catch the attention of people who don't usually use or visit a library.

Week 2 : Zamzar

It seemed to be too easy to do - and it worked. I am not sure whether it would be useful to Learn.net patrons, as you have to have an email address plus access to documents. personally I have never received a document which I have not been able to download. A big organisation could probably use this to convert documents received, but of course would have to have the original - hence contacting the original sender.
Zamzar certainly is very simple to use and would have applications for some users. (And this was certainly less stressful the second time round) Here's hoping for the rest of the training.

Week 1: and again?!

Well, after much scratching of head I have rememebered my blog name from the first lot of training. The password was a different matter and I did have to reset this. And so what are my expectations this time around? Certainly not to be totally stressed as I was then, and to learn a few more things. I must admit I have not used any of the training from the last lot of training, although I have now joined facebook so I can keep up with my daughters over seas trip.