The First Morning
We started with introductions and a session related to basic terms, mostly of storage capacities. Did you know that 1 byte is actually 8 bits, and 1 kilobyte is roughly equal to one page of double spaced text, while a gigabyte is about the size of the library of congress? I will have to practice all this information because there is a 33 question quiz to take. If you get 100 you win $33!
This posting should actually be called “the first day” because it’s now after lunch and I’m only starting to work on my blog! It took some time this morning to get the blog going…the computers were running very slowly and when I finally got registered with edublog.com the email that was supposed to give me my password never came. It turned out our ever-vigilant HM spam filter was blocking it! I got around this by using my gmail account to set up the blog.
After our lunch break we had a session about web pages that are really cool. I’m about to go do a little exploring…I have just set up an account at delicious.com that will allow me to store my bookmark files where they are always accessible and can’t get lost.
