Week 10

This week's lecture was given by Debra Beattie who talked about her involvement in the kids helpline website, and the possibility of providing counselling over the Internet. She also showed her online documentary "the wrong crowd" which is about a young girl growing up in Queensland from the 1950's onwards. This documentary can be viewed on http://www.abc.net.au/wrongcrowd/ We then watched the rest of David Cronenberg's 1999 film eXistenZ.

This week’s tutorial task was to write a job application letter using Microsoft Word. I thought that this would be an easy task as I have been using Word for a number of years and I am familiar with most of the basic functions.

During the course of writing the letter I found that the by carrying out the minor changes in each draft of the letter enhanced its appearance. Even the simplest function of changing the Bachelor of Arts degree into Bold and Griffith University into Italics made the letter look better.

Although I have used these and functions numerous times before, I had not used the Mail Merge toolbar before. This is obviously a valuable function to be used when sending out a draft letter to numerous recipients, and one function that I will be using in the future.

While I have used many of the basic function a number of times in the past there are a number of functions in word that I am unaware of and would benefit from exploring their uses in the future.