a "workbench" for practicing replies to a discussion
For anyone new to Ning and feeling very uncomfortable about replying to a "real" discussion, please use this discussion to practice replying to a discussion.
Try changing the appearance (bold, italic, underlined,strikethrough) of selected text in your practice replies.
When you feel comfortable with doing that, move on to adding links to other webpages located, either here at Fireside Learning, or elsewhere on an external website. Use the tutorials we've provided.
It may be a good idea to highlight and copy whole tutorials and paste them in a wordprocessing application you use and to save them as documents. That way you could quickly switch back and forth between practice box at Fireside Learning and documented tutorial in your word processor. If you'd feel even better holding a paper printout of a tutorial, print one to keep handy while you're practicing.
Try a new skill, see the actual results without feeling like you're learning to play a violin in public, and even delete them, if you want, after they've served their purpose of helping you learn.
When I was fourteen years old, I had an old wooden-shafted 9-iron (golf club) which I used to chip a bucketful of old golf balls from the front of a long rectangular yard at my family homestead to a raised green-like area in the back. My Uncle Rudy, a novice at the game of golf but an earnest learner of skills needed to play it, started me playing to have a partner in playing who was at least as unskilled as he was. ;-) We had great fun.
Back to the 9-iron practice I did regularly when I wasn't playing baseball--guess what happened? When I was out on the course, playing the game in the midst of accomplished golfers, my 9-iron play became over time superb. I just couldn't miss-hit a short-range shot and put many within a few feet of the hole. I enjoyed the game more, because at least 9-iron play I did well--although other parts of my game (I loved to hit 3-woods from the middle of long fairways.) improved likewise.because I practiced at home, off the public course. Personal computing is like golfing in some respects as a "game." It's also like opening and reopening a box of chocolates. ;-)
Try changing the appearance (bold, italic, underlined,
When you feel comfortable with doing that, move on to adding links to other webpages located, either here at Fireside Learning, or elsewhere on an external website. Use the tutorials we've provided.
It may be a good idea to highlight and copy whole tutorials and paste them in a wordprocessing application you use and to save them as documents. That way you could quickly switch back and forth between practice box at Fireside Learning and documented tutorial in your word processor. If you'd feel even better holding a paper printout of a tutorial, print one to keep handy while you're practicing.
Try a new skill, see the actual results without feeling like you're learning to play a violin in public, and even delete them, if you want, after they've served their purpose of helping you learn.
When I was fourteen years old, I had an old wooden-shafted 9-iron (golf club) which I used to chip a bucketful of old golf balls from the front of a long rectangular yard at my family homestead to a raised green-like area in the back. My Uncle Rudy, a novice at the game of golf but an earnest learner of skills needed to play it, started me playing to have a partner in playing who was at least as unskilled as he was. ;-) We had great fun.
Back to the 9-iron practice I did regularly when I wasn't playing baseball--guess what happened? When I was out on the course, playing the game in the midst of accomplished golfers, my 9-iron play became over time superb. I just couldn't miss-hit a short-range shot and put many within a few feet of the hole. I enjoyed the game more, because at least 9-iron play I did well--although other parts of my game (I loved to hit 3-woods from the middle of long fairways.) improved likewise.because I practiced at home, off the public course. Personal computing is like golfing in some respects as a "game." It's also like opening and reopening a box of chocolates. ;-)
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