Troubleshooting (again!)

Bring your questions, problems and anything you'd like to go over that we've already done to class tomorrow and we will endeavour to find the answers!

Term 3 starts on Monday 15 July

Yes! We're back already!

As I've been away on holidays there is no plan for the term, so let's go with a troubleshooting session for Monday morning (10 am to 12 noon). Bring all your questions, on any subject and we'll work through them.

Monday afternoon (1 to 3 pm) will be back to basics as usual.

See you Monday!

Social Media and Networking ideas for SCCCC members

These are the websites shared at today's SCCCC general meeting.

Examples of Social Media and Social Networking
Christchurch Earthquake: map of destruction and emergency services information
Ravelry: knitting and crochet heaven (you'll need to join up to view everything)
Wikipedia Community Portal: this is where you can get involved in editing and sharing what you know with the world!
State Records NSW on Flickr
State Library of NSW on Flickr

Twitter (twitter.com)
Practical Tips for Twitter Beginners from the University of Leicester
Twitter for Beginners from Mashable
Examples of Twitter accounts to follow: @702sydney, @OurCentralCoast, @mygosford, @abcnews, @abcgrandstand
Examples of Twitter hashtags: #SBSTDF, #London2012, #spbkchat, #qanda

Facebook (www.facebook.com)
Permanently deleting your Facebook account
Facebook settings - a complete guide: this article is up to date and if you ignore the ads, really useful.

Blogs
Blogging Flavours from Christchurch City Libraries
Talkin' bout my Generations - personal family history blog
The $120 Food Challenge
Clones 'n' Clowns
Raspberri Cupcakes
Smitten Kitchen
The Wednesday Chef
Garden Rant
Top 50 Gardening blogs from Blogrank
Top 100 Australian blogs index
Australian Genealogy and History blog list
and finally, you thought I was joking . . . here's the Vienna to Pyongyang blog that I spent 5 hours reading in the middle of the night (you've been warned!).


Photo Credit: khalid Albaih via Compfight cc

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!

Printing and Scanning

How to print as a PDF instructions (from the Dummies website, which is not a reflection of our class, purely a great resource!) This method means you don't have to save the file twice (once as a Word doc and once as a PDF).

Here's the list of keyboard shortcuts. The list is quite long but mastering ones like Command + C for copy, Command + V for paste will make your life easier!

How to print instructions from Mac.

That's about all. See you Monday for e-books and e-readers. If you have an e-reader or iPad, bring them along so we can play).