Linkedin

LinkedIn is the world’s largest professional network with over 175 million members and growing rapidly. LinkedIn connects you to your trusted contacts and helps you exchange knowledge, ideas, and opportunities with a broader network of professionals.

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Moodle

To get into Sydney Institute

Moodle-Google

1.SIT Moodle

2.Click on Sydney Institute link

3.You'll need to enter a username and password(supplied by your course teacher)

Moodle is an Open Source Course Management System (CMS), also known as a Learning Management System (LMS) or a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE). It has become very popular among educators around the world as a tool for creating online dynamic web sites for their students. You can find out more about Moodle, how to get it and use it, on the Moodle community site moodle.org.

Many TAFE courses use the Moodle system as a supplementary course delivery platform. Teachers use Moodle to store course information, such as assessment dates and instructions, as well as Student Assessment Guides*. Teachers may also upload resources for students on the  Moodle, such as readings, links, videos and photos. Students are often required to upload their assignments to the course Moodle.

Wikispaces

An administrator will create a wikispace, they will then invite people to become a members of the wikispace via your email a link which they follow to create an username and password.

Members of a wikispace can create pages, which any member can edit. Members can also comment and have discussions about certain topices from the pages.

Creating a Skype account

Skype to skype is free

 

You need credit for skype to mobile or landline, however is a very low rate.

You can also SMS from a skype account to mobile phones.

There is also chat capabilities on Skype accounts.

You have options for video or voice calls.

Go to Skype .com

Select create account

Enter your details(email,username,password and personal details.

New school leaving age

http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/more-students-disengaged-since-rise-in-leaving-age-20121101-28lrs.html

Looking at wikis

To create a Wiki, in Wikipedia there needs to be two or more valid references related to the topic.
This helps to detemine whether this a notable topic (person, place, flim, food, etc.)

Anyone can edit a Wiki in Wikipedia; however false/offensive information will usually deleted.

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uploading a video from Youtube

1. Go to 'new post'

2. Click on 'insert a video' from the tool bar.

3. Select 'From Youtube'

4. Type the name of the video in the search bar

5. Hit Enter

6. Click on the video you would like to upload
7. Click on 'select'.

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Creating a Twitter account

1. Type Twitter.com into your address bar; hit the 'enter' key.
2. The Twitter homepage will appear.
3. Fill in your details under 'Sign Up'!
4. You'll need a current email address and to come up with a suitable password.
5. Click on 'sign up'!

https://twitter.com/about\

Creating a facebook account

1. Type Facebook.com into your address bar; hit the 'enter' key.
2. The Facebook homepage will appear.
3. Fill in your details under 'Sign Up'!
4. You'll need a current email address and to come up with a suitable password.
5. Click on 'sign up'!
6. Once your accout has been created make sure you change your privacy and security settings.
7. To sign into your account enter facebook.com into your address bar and hit the 'enter' key.
8. Enter your email and password in the 'sign in' area at the top of your page

Creating a post on blogger

1. Go to blogger.com
2. Sign in to your blogspot
3. Select 'New post' or the orange box with a pencil inside

4. Choose a title for your post

5. Enter the title into the 'post title' box

6. Enter or copy text into the 'edit box'

7. Add video or picture by selecting tools from the 'tool ribbon'

8. Highlight text to change font size or style

9. Select preview to see how your post will appear to the audience/viewers

10. Once you are happy with your post appearance you can 'select' 'publish'

Creating a blog

Creating a blog

The first thing you need to do is decide what blogging provider you would like to use. There are a wide range of free providers, we are going to use Blogger as it is automatically connected to our Gmail accounts.

Secondly you need to come up with a name you would like to call your blog. This is important because its what people first see when looking at your blog  and how people will find your blog when using a search engine such as ‘Google’ or ‘Yahoo’.

We will be using our names for our class blogs as we did with our email accounts.

In your address bar type blogger.com and hit the ‘Enter’ key

A login page will be displayed. Enter your Gmail account information and click login.

A page like the one below will appear, this is where you’ll enter your preferred display name.

Select continue, once you have entered a display name.

On the following page select ‘new blog’.

You now need to choose a title of your page and the address of your blog, for class we will use the same as our email addresses ‘your name’sm12@blogspot.com. Then ‘click’ create blog!

 

You can now start Blogging!

 

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Creating an email account

1.Type Gmail.com into address

2.In the top right handcorner 'click' the 'create account' box.

3.New page called create a google account will appear. Enter your details.

4.You'll need a username and password.

5.Click 'next step'.

6.Your account has been created

7.Continue to your gmail

Ergonomics

Ergonomics is all about designing things to suit their users.
The design could be on a physical level, like making sure a chair, knife or shovel is easy to use for the task intended, or it could be on a psychological level, like making sure a computer program or instrument panel is easy to understand.
Ergonomics plays a particularly important role in making sure that safety critical industries like nuclear power stations can be controlled by their users, and in everyday life by making sure that workstations, checkouts, factory machinery can be used comfortably on a day to day basis.
Ergonomics is concerned with the 'fit' between people and their work. It takes account of the worker's capabilities and limitations in seeking to ensure that tasks, equipment, information and the environment suit each worker. What are the four areas of concern regarding computer egonomics?
How often should we have a break?
What angle should your elbows and knees be at when you are sitting at the computer?
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http://www.ergonomics.com.au/pages/400_useful_info/420_how_to_sit.htm