Day Three

Day three and not all our problems are ironed out. Still four computers can't get internet (not sure what's happening there). Never mind we will make do and get it sorted. Let's start a computer jargon document I tell the class and before I can finish my sentence, they are already on to it. Great! This is easier than I thought. Jargon you know, is not that easy to get your head around. I explain to the class about .co, .com, .org etc and as I say .co some of them are literally typing dot co; not their fault just my way of explaining it. I assumed that everyone would just know that when I said "dot com" I actually meant .com. Well you know what they say about assumptions aye? Instructions are getting easier, the class is picking things up faster and my Monday helper is just so patient and explains everything better than I can. Did I let you all know that my Monday helper is different to my Thursday helper? Well yes they are different but kind of the same, they are both patient I have to say, a lot more than I am. It was probably what drew me to them in the first instance. Back to the objective of the day.....save and save as, for those of you who are not MSWord savvy, save is to save the document as it is and saving as is opening a document, changing it around and then "saving as" a different file name, in turn having your original document and another one with changes. Easy you say, well, not always, especially if you make changes to the original document and then push only save. This lot seem to have the knack of this already. They are even using some of the keyboard shortcuts we learnt from last week. ( I suppose like the saying goes, "practice makes perfect"). Now, I was thinking about a way get the class to send an attachment. I came up with a "reflection" type document. Great, that's it! So I got all the class to open a new document using "CTRL N" and saving it in their own file (previously made a minute ago) using CTRL S as "Reflection". Excellent idea it was too. Now how to insert it as an attachment to an email. Attaching files to Yahoo mail, not that simple if you're new to it (like me). Well done, all the Yahoomail users got it, just about instantaneously and the rest just fabulous. I open up my gmail account and sitting there waiting for me to open it up was Alice's email with attachment in under five minutes, wow. You are quick. Bret, well it goes without saying he is clever; even though at first he didn't know how to attach files, he just worked it out but I got the credit (how do you do that Willow?). What next?..........Aha! Saving all their files to usb. Easy they all do it in under a minute. Woohoo! 5.54pm....where did the time go? Oh well, Erueti does our karakia and wishes us god speed and we're off home. Can anyone tell me how to change the background and make it easy on the eye and eye catching?