Well I keep trying to get on top of this stuff but I cant do it if the Internal server at RMIT wont connect. I think theres a problem today. :(
Ive been happily tweeting silly little things (thats just me, please accept me the way I am, I cant help it) but this week the blackboard thing would only let me listen to half the lecture - I tried 3 different downloads of it. Ive had trouble getting the Week 2 Headers andFooters thing to work and am prevented from doing the OLE thing just now, so its a little frustrating when Ive made the time, & the technology stuffs up and consumes it all. It feels like Im wasting a valuable part of life when I have to sit down and battle with something that isnt going to work anyway. "Bugger" is my theme for today. :/
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Well Ive managed to get onto the server again this afternoon, so things were looking up, when I decided in the middle of the OLE thing that my computer program just isnt going to do what the task wants me do to. Ive been able to duplicate files & save them, but I cant do any of the copying & pasting it wants me to do. The bitmap presented itself as a green digitally spraypainted drawing the first time I clicked on it, then as about 10 pages full of ? in diamond shapes, & wouldnt copy. Im on a Mac, which is a problem with software as I dont have Office (yet - theres some fiddling around to do), so I think Im just going to postpone doing these end tutorial exercises until I can get the software - which is going to take a bit of time. I can open basic Word docs, but not zip files. Ive got Open Office, and need Bootcamp, then have to order a physical copy of Office for students. I cant do that until 25 April, as Im on school holidays and have no pay for the next 2 weeks. Joy. Might have to do all this in the computer lab at RMIT instead.
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Hi Flicka,
ReplyDeleteI am relieved that it is not just me having these problems! I too have a Mac and at each project I find myself reading all the RMIT instructions before realising that they are not helpful at all, because the entire activity is based around a Microsoft program. So then I spend the next three hours finding the equivalent Mac program before blundering my way through a task. Even listening to a lecture recording (why aren't they uploaded as MP3s?) is a nightmare. Considering this is an online subject it is incredibly frustrating, so I feel your pain! I think that this is one of the problems that the IT world still needs to deal with, the spread of information is not so democratic when the big companies remain inflexible. Even the new gadgets continue along the same old path, I can't believe the iPad does not support Flash. Good luck with the rest of this project, at least I feel like we are learning an incredible amount, even if it's taking ages...
Gemma
Oh thank god Gemma!!! thanks heaps for that comment - my health has just improved dramatically :))))
ReplyDeletehey, good luck with it all!! really understand as have had all sorts of computer issues myself. Internet connection is slow (if at all) via virginmobile prepaid in townsville suburbia so i'm sitting here in the middle of botanical gardens of townsville being bitten to bits by all sorts of insects i didn't know existed (and could bite) as at least i am getting some sort of a connection to finish this off.
ReplyDeleteNo worries :) We are not alone!
ReplyDeleteAlso, have you found TextWrangler? It's free to download and has really helped me with the Maria Vegetables project as the html text edit programme for macs...
I didn't realised how many Mac users there are! I have a Mac too! I just spent the best part of today installing Dreamweaver, so I could do the vegie project. What a way to spend a nice Sunday...
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