Dizziness lingered me as we were instructed to create new official account for Yahoo Mail, Google Mail, Yahoo Group, Facebook and a blog. To create them is never be a huge problem but to manage them involves a little bit of problem. To remember the user name and the password for each account is a real challenge. But as a teacher-to-be, I must have the spirit to try and take up the challenge.
Yahoo Mail & Gmail
First and foremost, I was to sign up for Yahoo Mail and Gmail on the first day of lecture. The most crucial thing about it was to make them official. Besides, funny names are not allowed to be used in creating the new accounts. The rational of it was to make sure that our lecturers and friends will be able to recognise our accounts easily. I didn't have much problem creating them since I had an experience creating e-mail accounts before. But the new thing I learnt was how to make it an official account. What I meant by an official account is I have my signature at the very bottom of each e-mail I compose and send to others. For example,
Khatika Ho
A135742
B.Ed TESL
UKM-IPG Kampus Sarawak
E-mail address:khatikaho@yahoo.com
khatikaho@gmail.com
Yahoo group: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/khatikaho_ipgks
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/khatika.ho
Blog: http://khatika-ho.blogspot.com/
Hp no: 013-8280164
We were very fortunate to have a full guidance from Mr. Fariddudin in setting up these accounts. Hence, zero problems arose.
Yahoo Groups
Besides creating new official e-mail accounts, we were also to create a Yahoo Group and join the group that our beloved course coordinator, Dr. Siti Fatimah have created previously. These are really new things to me as I never learn to create one before. I literally lost in the first place but after several hours of learning and exploring together with useful guidance from Mr. Fariddudin and also my classmates, I finally managed to tackle it. I have successfully created one and even added all my classmates including Mr. Fariddudin our lecturer and Dr. Siti Fatimah, our course coordinator to my Yahoo Group. After a successful attempt, I found that it was not that complicated to set up a Yahoo Group. All I have to do in the first place was to visit Yahoo homepage. Then I clicked on the "Groups" at Yahoo Services. After that, what I have to do was to follow the steps and instructions provided. I started with a very simple step that was to click on "Start your group today". It was then followed by completing details for my group, customized it and finally added friends to join my group.
At the first place, I was wondering why do we have to create a Yahoo Group and also join each other's group. After exploring, I finally understood that Yahoo Group is a tool to connect with classmates, lecturers and people of the same interest efficiently. By having a Yahoo Group and get my classmates to join, it is easier for us to hold discussions and share information with each other regardless the time and place. It is truly interesting and beneficial and I enjoyed learning it.
Facebook
As we know, Facebook is very popular as a tool of social networking nowadays. And I am very sure that almost everyone in the world has an account for themselves regardless their age and location as long as they have an access to the internet. I myself has one personal Facebook account. For this course, we are required to create an official Facebook account to stay connected with classmates in IPGKS, friends of the same course in IPGKDRI, our lecturer and course coordinator. Besides, we were also to create a group in Facebook and get our friends to join. No doubt, Facebook is superbly efficient. We can share pictures, recent activities and latest news by just a few clicks. Steps to sign up for a new Facebook account are as follow:
1) Visit Facebook homepage.
2) Fill in your information and click "sign up"
3) Customize your profile.
4) Add friends to your account.
To make my account an official one, I need to do the verification by visiting my account setting and get the administrator to send the code to my contact number. After the verification is done, my Facebook is now an official account. For this, I would like to express my special gratitude to Barbara Kath for assisting me much. THANKS A LOT BABE!
Blog
Finally...The final one. To create a blog. Oh..That was a real bizarre to me as I have zero knowledge on that. Yeah...I do heard about it before but so sad to say that I never bloom any interest in it. To follow anyone's blog is already out of my mind and what more to say to create one for myself.
But as we were instructed to create one, I have to do so. I started from zero. A total ZERO. Thousands of thanks to my friends, particularly Barbara Kath and my room mate, Clearance Flora for their generous assistance while I was on my way of creating and customizing my blog. I created my blog using my Gmail account and then filled in necessary details in it. To make it easy for my friends to follow my blog, I took the initiative to use my own full name as in my IC in my blog URL.
Blog is simply an electronic diary. I can post anything, express my feelings and share them with everybody particularly my followers. Now that I already have one for myself, I find joy in blogging and I shall keep on blogging for the days ahead.
There are really a lot of useful and beneficial things I have learnt in Week 1. Just an early exploration but I really enjoyed myself. I really look forward for the nest lessons.
Love,
*ika*
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