Chapter Numero 2 Done-o

OK, so apparently I've been slacking just a little bit here. Last update was sometime last week, possibly a whole week ago. Wow! Well this time I have two announcements.

1. I'm engaged... no wait, that's not me. Actually I don't know of anyone who just got engaged. OK, so the real announcement is that my last assignment received 100% Yeah! Mind you it was pretty easy, you just follow directions and hand it in. So, I would've been bummed if I didn't get a good mark. I would just be plain sad :(

2. I just handed in Project 2. Yeah! Can't you tell I'm excited.

I'm pretty happy considering, my track record of completing assignments is pretty bad. I would get bad grades on behave of the incompleted assignments. Which is not a very good thing anywhere. I'm hoping I can overcome this "obstacle" in my life and complete projects. Comment if you have this problem or know how to solve it.

Finally I have come to realize that my blog posts may be a little bit on the long side, after I was looking through past posts. I thought to myself, "wow these posts just go on and on, Heather shorten your thoughts here" So I will try to do this. Perhaps I will just leave the Heather's tips for a separate post. So that is what I will do.

Thank you for reading.

Where rainbows fly, so will I.
As long as pigs aren't there.

The drawbacks of Distance learning

I like to talk about what I like and love about distance education. Well, I'm going to tell you one thing I find that I don't like about it. THERE ARE NO LIBRARIES. They don't have a physical building that I can go to borrow books or videos, or read magazines or newspapers, or a place to sit and study or a computer to study.

I do miss not being able to just go and find a book that would be relevant to the subject I'm learning about. I bring this subject up, because I just discovered that my town has library cards. I knew that it was going to happen, but I wasn't sure when. I'm pretty excited about getting a library card. I haven't gone in the library to get one, but I want to get it soon.

I don't know if you have ever gone to the library before, but it is an amazing place. There are so many books, books that you have never heard of or knew existed. Books that can fill your imagination with so many ideas and adventures. Books can give you a new incite on the world around you, fill you with knowledge, and teach you a new way of doing things.

I think libraries are amazing and are a great place in a community. Make sure you go and check out your local library and try to find something new. The options are endless.

Heather's Tip: Word count
How many times do you try to find out how many more words you need for this 500-word essay that's due tomorrow? It is very frustrating to do it the old fashion way of counting each word in every line in every paragraph in every page. Counting words is really easy now-a-days in word processing software like Microsoft Word or OpenOffice Writer. I'm sure any of the other Office applications do this as well, but I am only familiar with these two programs.
In Word, you can see a word count in the bottom left of the status bar (its on the bottom of the Word window). In Writer, click on Tools in the Menu bar and click on Word Count.

Chapter 1 ... Complete

I feel like I want to portray this as a game. I love video games, computer games....
They have always been a big part of me and my sisters. We would always play these kind of games. We were a big Nintendo players. Especially the Mario series.

But this is besides the point of school. Although right after school we would go to the Nintendo for a quick game. Those were the days.
When you could do stuff in your PJ's. Why change out of your comfortable clothes when they are soooo comfortable??? I ask you that.
And which is one reason why I love completing school in the comfort of my own home. I can wear whatever I want, and not worry about on-lookers and classmates. Although I wouldn't be afraid to wear my PJ's to school, in fact I would. That's the kind of girl I am. Well not really a girl anymore, but you get the point.

Getting back on topic. I have finished Chapter 1. I find the first chapter either very informative or very repetitive. Oh, I'm not sure if you know what course I've started this time. Ha ha ha, very smart Heather. I am currently on Microsoft Word 2007. I have to say that Word 2007 is very different from Word 2000. Word 2000 is what I studied back in college. Which was like in 2002. Not that long ago, but still is long ago.

The format of Word 2007 has definitely evolved still 2000. It still has the basics of 2000 but has more customizing capabilities in the format. I like 2007, but I need to get used to it.

Well, Chapter 1 is complete, now I get to start on Chapter 2. Might I also add that I am handing in my assignment 2 days ahead of time. I'm sooo happy about that, because at a couple of points in my studies I had been behind by a week. Well, I didn't actually recieve my equiptment and books until a week after my first project was due. So.... I say I'm doing alright now. Now I get to work on it off and on and take a whole day to read a chapter and do the required exercises.

And that's why I like correspondence! :) I hope this is one reason that may convince you to try it.

Heather's tip: Page borders
A really helpful way to contain and make a public letter or flyer capture a passer-byer's eye is to use a border around the page. There are many designs and colours you can use. If you chose an appropriate one you can make your flyer attrative. A border can center your page and give your viewer a better target to concentrate on. Try it.

Continuing on....

I am back.

I wasn't really gone before but, it was a little since my last post.

I did take the test on Wednesday for Discovering the Internet. I passed with 94%! Yeah!

I would've like a higher grade, but its good enough. ;)

Now I am working on Word 2007.

Another class I have taken before, although to be fair it was Word 2000, I believe.

Having used both, I would say they are the same, but have some big differences between them.

For example THE RIBBON!!!!!!

It sort of replaces the menu bar, but it expands it.

I don't know if you can see it very well. This picture looks very small and distorted. The picture saved on my computer looks a lot nicer. So, I guess Blogger doesn't like it. But I hope it shows something different to, than it does to me here. (Ramble)

But anyways, I have a huge birthday party I will be going to today. I should be doing schoolwork, eventhough its a Saturday, but its a birthday party for many people I know. I mean it combines birthdays, from one family, to one big party.

So I hope you all have a wonderful weekend!!!!!!!

Heather's tip: Bookmarks/Favorites.

I really love favoriting webpages. It is really useful when you happen to stumble on a page that really interests you but you don't have time to appreciate it. Just favorite it. Go to the menu bar in Internet Explorer and click on Favorites, then click on Add to Favorites..., then you can click on Add.

If you want to be really organized about your Favorites, you CAN!!! Remember when you clicked on Add to Favorites... and a box pops up asking you how you want to add your new favorite link? You can make folders for organizing your favorites. Do this in the box that pops up for Favorites, click on New Folder that is beside the drop-down list for which folder to "create in", then type in a name for the folder like "Books" or "Music sites" or whatever you want it to be. Once you have created that folder you can now save Favorites there. Try it now with this website. You can create a folder named Blogs. Once you have finished that, click on Favorites again and hover over the "Blog" folder. You will see a link to this page there.

If you would like to remove a favorite, it is easy too. Find the link you don't want anymore in the Favorites list and right-click on it. Then from the menu click on Delete. Click OK or YES and it will be removed. Try it with this website.

There. Happy Favoriting!

Welcome to my BLOG!!

Hi everyone,

My name's Heather, and I want to take you on a journey as I do my correspondence course.
So you can follow my frustrations and joys of taking courses at home. I've actually been "studying" for ... I guess about 2 months now. The course is 1 year.
So this will be exciting.

I am taking a Multimedia and Animation course. And this is working through textbooks.
Of course I'll be grading by a teacher that is on the other side of the country, so I won't be doing this blindly.

But for fair warning, I can have an interesting sense of humour and I like to write what I think. I tend to not edit, too much. I like to give people a little bit of what is inside my head. No matter how crazy it is in there. So if I start rambling, you have been warned.

I will try to post on a daily basis, but we'll see about that.

Please do not be afraid, as I am a little bit.

Things could get interesting here. lol.