Week 8: Parts 1 & 2

This week there were various tasks for tutorial.

Part 1 consisted of both Excel and Word. Now i'd have to say that this was one of the easiest tasks for this subject, as i completed certificate III in Business Services/Office Administration at TAFE in my last year at highschool. And my 1st year out of school i worked as an assistant front office manager for a small internet company, which allowed me to put to practice all the office stuff i'd learnt from my course. So the tasks set for this week i had already mastered years ago, and used on a daily, sometimes weekly basis. I can see how these tasks would seem daunting to first-timers but once you have completed them a few times they become alot easier and are very valuable in an office environment.

Part 2 is where we have to look at the qualitative differences between regular IM programs (eg:MSN) and 3D environment. The obvious differences would be that one is 3D like real world and MSN is simply chatting about personal subjects to your friends or family or people you know thru a message window. When i think of 3D chat rooms i think of a game one of my ex-boyfriends used to play called counter strike where u not only play the game but there is constant interaction with other players and their characters thru microphones or typing but it looks real. There are positive and negatives to both, it depends what you're into but i suppose MSN would be more widely used for general communication. 3D environments would be more useful for the hard core computer people.