first tute: refreshing :)

First tutorial for new communications technology, or new com tech,

OK well coming into this course I assumed that it would be a somewhat technologically advanced class which would completely baffle me, leaving me with a barely passing grade. Yet as i realised in the first tutorial, it would be a step by step guide to all things considered as new technologies. Our class was taught by Kaya, who was able to guide us through each step of starting a GMail account and creating our first blog (which, as I am a pen and paper person not a computer person, is not small feat). The class began with a run-threw of the course outline, as seen on the learning at Griffith site. All assignments were explained, including the blog which we began that day. I'm not a blogger sort of person so at first i was unsure of what would be expected, but that was quickly explained. We then logged onto the computers, an apple computer which i have never used before, but we were guided by our tutor who showed us a mirror version on the projector screen of what we were seeing on our computers. Using FireFox we all created GMail accounts. this lead us straight to creating blogs. All of us were stumped when it came to choosing a display name and URL. the pressure was on us for it to be original and nothing to do with fluffy cats (as Kaya seemed to really dislike them). I choose Sarmi Salami as it is my nickname (due to me pronouncing my friends names wrong) for my display name and i choose mcpartygrl for my URL (because i work at McDonald's and I am the party Girl). We continued to edit some aspects of the web page and then it came time for picture choosing. I searched both my myspace and facebook accounts only to discover that i don't have any pictures of just me. So i just choose i recent picture and uploaded that. i then began to add all of the people sitting around me. As Kaya pointed out, when we were stuck we could ask them for help or look what they'd written, so i added as many people as possible. surprisingly i really enjoyed this class as i was able to follow everything unlike i had assumed would happen. Overall i think i will like New com tech (Kaya says the cool people shorten it).

Sarmi Salami!