Well that was very daunting. Not knowing what to do I went to the discussion board and found a thread on Telnet. Christoper kindly put up instructions on how to access the hyperterminal on my computer (for another student) and I followed the steps recommended. ( I also asked where to find my email address to which he suggested I go back to Oasis, gawd do I feel like a dummy!!)
Back to the Telnet saga. After about six tries, and much frustration due to nothing happening on the screen, I went back to the discussion board to find two other students had put up links to dtelnet. Wandered over to there, and after much huffing and puffing on my part worked out how to download it. I got it up and running and hey presto, there I was a the library, with prompts on what to do. Whew. I don't want to go through that again. I anxiously await my email from Deakin to assure me I did the right thing.
It took me back the 1980's when I first got on a computer and didn't know what to do. What and experience. I now appreciate how far computers have progressed in 20 plus years.
Going back to start.
When I first connected to the webct, after logging in to Oasis, I found the unit, did the orientation tutorial, discovered I learn in a multimodal way. I then went to the discussion board and read the welcome from our tutor Cynthia, read the other students responses as well as posting my own with throw away line asking was it too early to ask for help. Tony Consentino (my hero of the hour) responded. I was quite taken aback at first, but then started to feel I belonged to a group. My help query was in creating a blog!!! As is shown I did manage with a tip or two from Tony.
Now I am off to do the B part of task one............
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