CONFUSION!

Hi,
I am so confused! For the past 2.5 hours I have been trying to find free web apps and trying to download programs from open source and once the download is complete it doesn't work and I can't find anything that I don't have to download except the googledocs. Is it because i have an older mac?I'm lost! I did read the entire workshop on presentatios but haven't gotten any farther than that.
-Elise

 

Hi Elise,

Probably the older mac is a problem.  A lot of open source software runs on mac, but the newest versions may not.  Also, how comfortable are you with installing a program on your mac?  Are you doing the publishing workshop?  Let me know and I'll see if there is some troubleshooting I can do to make this work better for people with older macs.

Your email to me counts as your workshop for this week because you put in the time and sometimes things just don't work.  You did really well working with what must have been very frustrating--you didn't let frustration stop you.  You also made a wise choice about when to contact someone for some assistance.  Learning can take place in so many ways and it can happen in a very different way from what was intended.  

I had a very poor teacher who taught me how NOT to teach, and as annoying as she was to deal with, what she has taught me has contributed significantly to my efforts to be the best teacher I can be.  Sometimes you go into a workshop with the intent of learning something but what you learn is that the workshop maker needs to provide some more support and instruction!!