Week 1

Blog 26/07/2012

Today was the first class of ‘Communicate Electronically and Organise Personal Workplace Priorities and Development’. We focused on setting up a Gmail account today and how to use it, also about getting to know one another. Today’s class has been easy to follow and something quite simple to start off with rather than jumping straight in the deep end.

Personally I think the Gmail is going to come in handy and I think I’ll be using it for Tafe and possibly work in the future. Setting up a signature for the bottom of my emails makes it seem a lot more formal and professional to me, so therefore I would be happy to send of emails to my lecturer or work colleagues.

Some of it I think is quite similar to Hotmail, so it wasn’t too tricky to work out. I’ve never used Gmail, or even really heard of it before today so I’ve found it interesting to work out.  I like how I can connect the Gmail up to my Hotmail, because I use my Hotmail account every day. Also today I made groups out of my contacts which is something I haven’t done for emails before, so that is going to be handy having everyone I may need to contact all together for this course. I’m really looking forward to learning all about this social networking as obviously so many people use it and I feel I should be up to date with it also.  

Andrea Rickard