Open Office Writer

Last night was the "big night" for my group in ITHES 569. We had our big presentation and we did very well when we presented. That is what Dr. Counts told us anyways. He is the one that gives us the grade, so who cares what the others think?
Today I have been working with that presentation that we presented. We used Microsoft PowerPoint as our presentation tool. This morning I have gone through and, using OpenOffice Writer, I have taken that presentation and saved the filed as an OpenOffice Writer file. So, now I am able to access the presentation in either way. When I started I was not for sure if I was able to do it, but I am very pleased with the results. The presentation is exactly the same as it was last night. So, I would have to give myself an "A" for today.
Today I also used Google Word Docs to write a document for my final project that I am working on for a research paper in CREV 580. I wrote down on of the websites that I found as sources that I am going to use. There were several magazine articles that I found and I could not print some of them off here, so when I go to the library I will not have to take anything with me, I will be able to look the sites up on my "Google Docs" page on the computers there.
I also did a little "tinkering" with my homepage of my blog today. I added a picture, as well as some text.

IT 569-Google Docs

For today's entry I am going to tell you a little more about that project that I have for my IT 569 class. However, I am not going to type it out here. I created it in a Google document, so you can gain access to it by going here http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=ddh52842_55sbqz6. I will be glad when that presentation is over, although there is another one right behind it.
To create the document, I signed into my Google account, then went to Documents and Spreadsheets. Next, I typed out the information that you will see when you click the hyperlink. Then, I opened up my blog, signed into my blog, and typed this information that you are reading. As I was typing this text, I double-clicked the web address where my Google Document is located, then pasted the web address. I had to do this operation twice, in order to complete this assignment.

Migrating from Yahoo!

So, today I did something a little more complicated. I have been a Yahoo! account user for years, I mean years. Recently, whenever the date was they came out with the service, I upgraded to the Yahoo! Beta account service. Until becoming more and more familiar with Google's e-mail service, I thought that Yahoo's e-mail service was very good. Now, I like Google's e-mail even better though.
Anyways, today I went through and imported my calendar from Yahoo! to Google. Here are the steps to do so:

1. From my Google homepage, I clicked on the link titled, "How do I migrate events from Yahoo! calendar to Google calendar?
2. Then, I signed into my Yahoo! account & went to "Options"
3. I clicked the "Import/Export" button & chose the Export button
4. I saved my file onto my desktop
5. Back on my Google account, on the Calendar, I went to "Settings," "Import Calendar"
6. I clicked "Browse", went to "Desktop" & selected my the file I had saved & opened that file
7. From the dropdown menu, I selected calendar which I wanted to import events
8. I then clicked Import to complete the process

First Blog

Ok, so here we go....we're going to blog a little bit! Well, when I started with my final project it was like this... I was going to "Use only Web-Based Applications," I was not going to run into any problems, I had everything mapped out perfectly, there were not going to be any walls that I was going to run into, then...REALITY CHECK!

So, originally today I was going to do research on "creating a classroom homepage." I was going to use "Moodle" to work on this because it provides calendars, lessons plans, etc., to help do this. However, I had no idea what type of classroom I wanted to set up, therefore I found it in my best interest not to go any further in this route. That is when I had a "brain fart" and several ideas began to enter my mind all at once.

I changed my plans and just dove right into using Google Docs. I used this to prepare a paper for my IT-569 course. I had to use hyperlinks on Google Docs in order to get to five sites that were needed for presentation on Interactive Media for this document that I was preparing. However, the overall experience with Google Docs was fine.