18th July
Catchingup on my blogging for Learning 2
My daughter and her baby have now gone back to Darwin so again I have access to my computer and study cubby hole!.
I found week 11's exploration a little harrowing in that I feel vunerable in having to load G drive onto computer. It just shows how quickly technology changes as the exercise encourages us to log into Google Docs but the website advises that Google Docs has been replaced by Google Drive which has to be down loaded. Which I did!. I entered nswpln@gmail.com to share y word document (reference: https://google.com/comument/d/lrlh71VJXOHh228L2Ka8tMxzxo)
I found tht the example used on the training video very pertinent as I am the editor of a local newsletter and this would be very handy for receiving contributions as I too am often overwhelmed with email attachments.
Maybe in the future I cn use google document for this purpose but I think that it would be too difficult at this stage for contributers to get "a handle" on this process. In principal though the process has certainly got a lot going for it and it would definitely reduce my frustration.
Down the track, it will I am sure, become standard practise and I can imagine it could be used in a myriad of ways in the library particuarly for book clubs, though I still think it is of prime importance that people still meet socially. I would like to see our local library run a workshop on how to use Google Documents, I then could invite all our local contributors to our newsletter. This would really be magic.
Regards
Monica