23/08/2012- Half way through!!

Coming into class today I certainly felt the stress that we are half way through the term. Although I felt relief knowing today we get to catch up on our Tasks. Im up to date now which is a nice feeling.

I finished up on task 6 which was a interesting one all about the dangers of social networking. I find it really interesting because Im joined up to facebook and I see so much cyber bullying and other sorts of networking issues, so this was a good topic to type about. People take it to a whole other level, with the photos they upload, and statuses they blast about friends or work colleagues, and if theyre in a work or school environment this could cause big problems for them.

I had a bit of a look on thedesk.com and found that pretty helpful, it has some quizzes about stress and how to manage things. Very interesting.

Feeling like I'm learning alot which is great, time is going so fast though.

Until Next Week!

16th of August

This week in class we have looked at putting together a checklist for ourselves to keep us aware of our key performance indicators. These are to help us reach our goals and complete our work at the highest standard. It was great to share what we had put together on one note because then we could update our work if we had forgotten something or wanted to adjust it.
We also took a look at social media and the consequances it can have if we are not careful about out privacy, and how it can be inappropriate in the workplace. It was very informative and showed some good points. Im now up to Task 6 writing about this, I find this quite interesting and look forward to finishing it off.
Until next week!

Week 3

Week 3, 09/08/2012

This week we worked in groups to put together some questions on Microsoft Onenote.
This was the first time i have used this program. I found it very interesting to learn how to use, quite basic, but fun. It was great being able to share all our work together, and help each other out with the questions. Personally i prefer to use the old fashioned note books, using a pen and paper, but for this class I enjoyed using it. It is the same layout as a notebook, but you can see everyone elses work aswell, and add all sorts of pictures and colour to it. There was alot of nifty little things to do with this program.

The second half of the class we worked on our own for tasks 3 and 4. I found these questions to be quite difficult, but I'll get there. Task 3 was about explaining the Spam Act 2003, this is very interesting because so much email spam goes on. Alot of people get hacked, and have their identity stolen or worse! So its good to read about and find out more. Task 4 was answering the questions that as a group we answered, so this was great, we had all the information together and ready to use.

Until next week:)

Week 2

This Week we have gone through the importance of email etiquette. I learnt alot about the importance of punctuation and grammar, and to make sure you dont USE CAPITALS all through out a email because it may come across threatening or they may think your angry. Making sure you dont put anything too personal in a email is important because you never know who may gain access to this information.
In the next part of the class we looked at google calendar, I personally had a bit of trouble with this task as I have not used it before, and things got a little confusing. Although i felt towards the end of class I gained some understanding and it became more clearer. I look forward to having another go at conquering google calendar next week!