I stayed late two nights this week at work to use the Access program and do my Skills Reviews. My Microsoft Office 2007 does not include Access so I'm glad this worked out for me. Wow, there is a lot to Access, and I can see how wonderful it would be to use this program in certain instances. It was difficult for me to wrap my head around what all the program can produce for me, so I'm going to go over the units again before I take the quizzes. The tutorials were indispensable for me since I wasn't always sure where I was headed or what it was I was trying to do. I'd say I'll probably end up spending about 10+ hours on the Access part of our assignments this week.
I was so bummed I had missed the Elluminate this week! I was headed home with an hour to spare, and then I stopped by a friend's house to say hi! and that turned into dinner, and when I got home around 7pm... it hit me that I had missed the session! I listened to the recording and I had a question of mine answered, so that was good. There are not too many of us who tune in on Tuesday evenings, I sure hope fellow students are listening to them later because I know there are a few hints I've gleaned from Prof. Bagent on our assignments that I would have missed if I hadn't listened. I don't think many of the students realize the Tutorials are available for us to utilize and I think that tool would help them out a lot.
The HTML part of this week's work was easy. I loved learning that code back in '99/2000. I have helped with friends business web pages, and I've done some other pages. Here is my website where you can click onto a few of my own personal projects. Unfortunately I haven't updated anything since about 2007 or 2008, but I see my Oregon Trail page has over 46,000 visits... WOW...
http://personal.my180.net/thesmiths/index.html
I also can't believe that several students have stopped blogging, or haven't added more things to their blog. As Prof. Bagent suggested, the Blog part of our weekly assignments has become a lot of fun! I guess I was ready to jump into it since I enjoy my son's blog from Sweden so much. Anyway, I'm having a blast with it :)
And an Idea. Taking this computer class, and the business 101 class, and having my mom tell me about something she is working on and having trouble with... I have come up with a business idea that I think could make a bit of money. I'd have to get a .com, and I think I might have to learn some javascript and maybe brush up on CGI. The idea is so overwhelming my thought processes that I have not been able to study for my business test coming up on Friday! Every time I sit down to read, my mind wanders away to the idea and how to make it all work! Driving me crazy because there is still much to learn on the computing end, and I'm depending on my mom to work a few details out on the information end. I am really excited about it though. I'd like to make it so almost everything is handled with programming. I think it could work, and I think it might make me a little bit of money too. Wow, wouldn't that be amazing?
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