The next decade....what's in store?

From whom do we learn things?

As I go through each day, I do various tasks and I sometimes remember from whom I learnt them.

These have to do with the computer.

From a summer employee in my department in 1996
- How to do basic stuff on Microsoft Word. I grew up on Wordperfect. She made it seem like the easieist thing in the world...and it was.

From Nerissa P
- How to save a document with a password to open and password to modify
- How to print one page of an Excel document without highlighting the document and clicking 'selected text' or whatever the option is

From Brigitte
- How to save a picture from off the internet

From two job applicants who I was interviewing (one in Grenada, one in Jamaica)
- How to show the key strokes in a Word document
- The quick way of finding 5% of a number. (ie Find 10% and divide by 2! We give a numeracy test and I usually ask the candidates what method they use to arrive at the answer and we he told me, I thought "oh yeah, that could work too instead of long division and multiplication by 100!)

From Poor but Polite aka Loraine
- How to use PowerPoint

From a computer person at the Ministry of Finance
- How to use Microsoft Access

From a lecturer at UWI
- About Google. I was asking him how to find something and he said "just Google it" and I said "huh? What's Google?" Now I Google everything. This was Fall 2001 by the way.

Of course you can add a number of different things, like what you learnt from your parents, your kids, your dogs (including the bitch Kalli!) etc.

Posted by yamfoot at July 12, 2005 08:39 PM