Term 3 is coming soon!

Just a reminder that there are no classes for the next two weeks due to school holidays. Classes resume for term 3 on 15 July. There is however a SCCCC general meeting on Monday 1 July at the Kincumber Pub. I am the guest speaker (again!) and will be talking about Social Media, specifically Facebook, Twitter and blogging.

I'll be putting up the plan for next term over the next couple of days so stay tuned. If you have a topic you'd really like to cover next term, please email me or leave a comment below.

Social networking

On Monday we look at social networking and media and discussed the advantages to using these technologies to stay in touch, read the news, meet new people who share the same as interests as you and even crowdsourcing information to help citizens following a natural disaster (we took a look at a Christchurch earthquake map). You can do a lot more than just share photos of your dinner!
These are the links and videos that we look at on Monday.

Videos
Introduction to a digital world video.
Videos on the Technology Explained website, we watched the one called Social Media.
YouTube
Vimeo

Photos
Instagram
Flickr (State Records NSW have a great selection of historical images)

We also looked at Facebook and Twitter. Next week we will go through the steps of setting up a Facebook account. And take a look at some more social networking sites.

Reminder

Just a reminder for everyone that tomorrow is the first Monday of the month so there are no classes. The club's monthly meeting is on at 10.30 am at Kincumber Pub instead. The guest speaker is me, and I'll be talking about iPads.

The Mac Users Group is meeting tomorrow at 1 pm at my house. Please email me if you would like to come (sallyturbitt at gmail.com).

Classes resume on Monday 16 June (9 June is a public holiday).

See you all either tomorrow or in a couple of weeks!