I must admit
to being very skeptical about using Google accounts for anything than an
alternate contact for password recovery; however I did find myself with at
least a small database of knowledge on the subject of Gmail before it came to
start the class. Although I already had a working and functional Gmail account,
I believed that it would be beneficial for my studies if I created a new
account to use as a contact for at least studies in this unit and perhaps the
course.
Email
accounts are something that everyone seems to have a myriad of in today’s
society – one email for some reason just isn’t enough to sate the normal human,
so it is important to know how to use various email accounts to their full
potential, and Gmail isn’t an exception to the rule. With the advent of
Google+, Gmail has become more complicated and difficult to use. General settings
aren’t easily accessible and the process of adding contacts one doesn’t appear
very streamlined or efficient. I personally find Gmail to be overly complicated
and dry, compared to my iinet account, which appears to be fairly simple to use
in comparison.
Most of the
subject matter that we dealt with today was fairly simple to understand –
creating a signature for instance isn’t something I would generally bother
about with my email accounts, but know the practicality of them in the standard
office environment. I am perhaps lucky to have grown up in an era where
computers and technology were taught to me at a young age, so many of the
things that I consider common knowledge or computer basics are actually a
struggle for some to learn for the first time.
This first
week of classes however has been informative on where this unit is headed and
what will be expected of us in the coming weeks. Although it looks daunting
now, looking at the many hours of work that lays ahead is something that dreads
even the most dedicated of students. As long as I remember to do everything
within the allotted time and keep up to date with work every week, I’m sure
that it’ll all just breeze past. Just have to remember to check the new Google
account, and not leave every assignment to the last minute.
I know that
I usually do – and it hasn’t worked up to now!
