Monthly Archive for April, 2008
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Hi Everyone. Thanks for being patient and printing your student assessment guides. If you missed this class, then you should visit this page, scroll down to:
TAFE IT Foundation / 19040 – Digital Media
and print the four student assessment guides. You should also bring them to our next class.
Speaking of next lesson, we now have two weeks break (TAFE holidays coincide with School holidays). Our next classroom lesson will be on the 30th April.
At the end of the class, we discussed an option for the some learners of the class, to arrive early and go over some of the tasks and exercises we have covered previously together. This was suggested in light of the faster students, feeling “held up” while they had to wait for other students to grasp the concept of the exercise. The new arrangement is as follows:
6:00pm – 6:30pm - Students feeling they need more time to learn will have an extra 30 minutes with me before the actual class will start.
6:30pm – 9:30pm – Regular Class
As you have no doubt noticed, the finishing time of the class is now 9:30pm. This arrangement will continue for the remainder of this semester (until July 2008) only.
On another note, we won’t be covering any more new features of Photoshop. As I have said many times, “I could teach you Photoshop CS forever, and still not cover everything”. The features and tools we have covered up to now, are the features and tools we will use for the rest of the year. We may try the use of another tool or feature along the way, but there will be no further lessons dedicated to the use of tools and features of Photoshop CS.
After the boring printing stuff, we covered at a bit more length, the downloading of photos from your camera, using the “Microsoft Camera and Scanning Wizard”.
This Link – pretty well sums up the use of this Wizard.
Those of you feeling lost without printed notes to look at while I am teaching, can look forward to printed materials from the beginning of next term.
Remember; I put these links and resources here for your use. So if they are of no use to you, too hard to understand or you feel they are off topic, then please let me know, via any of the communication channels you have with me. I am more then happy to make changes, source better content or even create fresh content from scratch, just for you! You need only ask …. nicely!
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This week we began working our way through the notes for Create User Documentation Task 3. There is a considerable amount of notes for this task, so please take the next two weeks to gradually read you way through them. It would be a good idea to make side notes on anything you don’t understand, and get in touch with me when you are able to. We will begin, and hopefully complete Task 3 in our next session.
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Actually Posted on 7th April 2008
I can relate to a few of these, how about you?
Tech Support: “What version of the Mac OS are you using?”
Customer: “Word 6.0.”
Tech Support: “What browser are you using, Netscape or Microsoft?”
Customer: “Netscape.”
Tech Support: “Could you read to me what it says at the top of the window?”
Customer: “‘Global Travel Conference – Microsoft Internet Explorer’.”
Tech Support: “Are you installing on a Mac?”
Customer: “No, I’m using a 3.5″ thingee on a disk.”
Tech Support: “This has Windows 98 on it — did it have Windows 98 or 95 on it when it was sent out for repair?”
Customer: “I think it had Office 97.”
Tech Support: “How much free space do you have on your hard drive?”
Customer: “Well, my wife likes to get up there on that Internet, and she downloaded ten hours of free space. Is that enough?”
Customer: “I keep getting an error message whenever I try using the MSDOS mode in Windows 95.”
Tech Support: “Can you describe what happens?”
Customer: “Well, I keep getting a black screen with an error message saying, ‘C:\WINDOWS>’.”
Tech Support: “which drive is your CD ROM?”
Customer: “the top one.”
Customer: “Do I hit ‘F’ and ’8′ at the same time?”
Tech Support: “Your password will be…a small ‘a’ as in apple, a capital ‘V’ as in Victor, the number ’7′ ”
Customer: “Is that a capital ’7′?”
Tech Support: “Ok, let’s try once more, but use lower case letters…”
Customer: “Uh, I only have capital letters on my keyboard.”
Remember: If you have something funny that you would like to see featured in The Weekly Funny, submit it to me or tell me about it via one of the many communication channels you have with me.
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