Jack and I
This blog entry refers to the recent entry called A Meeting of Godwriters™ that mentioned how some good people get lost on the Heaven forum and other places too.
Since I knew someone who is incredible at making the complex seem easy, I hoped he would be able to do this for us. He could do it, too, but, alas, he can't fit it in right now.
Our friend Jack from Australia, who is a frequent contributor here, and who had been a navigator before he retired, on my say-so, was looking forward to smooth sailing on the forum. And now I was going to have to say that I can't deliver on my promise.
So, Jack, here's what I'm thinking. Let's you and I put together a beautiful simple way to navigate the high seas of the Heaven website and forum together. I will see what I can do in little steps, and then you be the tester to see how well I'm doing.
I agree with you that, on the surface, the blog is easier to follow. I think it's easier because it has one focus. There isn't so much to look at and wonder about what to do with now. With the web site and forum, many of us feel we are looking at a maze, and we feel we have to multi-task a whole bunch of things. We get lost in the shrubbery. We can't figure out the forest for the trees.
You know those drawings where you discover what the drawing is by taking away all the rest that is not needed there? So my thought is that we take away. We will only look at one thing at a time, and then it will all be as simple as this blog.
I have learned a lot on the computer. Each step has been hard-won for me because I have no idea of the workings of the mind of a computer. I don't know half its language etc. something which someone else may take as a matter of course.
A long time ago, there was a new subscriber who had sent an inspiring email to me personally. As I always do, I had asked her to please post her beautiful email on the forum. You know how I urge everyone to post. Of course, her email belonged on the forum. I said to this new subscriber to "type in or cut and paste..."
This dear lady wrote back and said so simply: "What is cut and paste? I don't know what it is. And I don't know to do it."
That's how I feel with every new thing I learn on the computer. I don't even know what it is, and I certainly don't know how to get there.
Cut and paste is so simple to us now, isn't it? We think there is nothing to it. We even do it without thinking.
I had to stop and think: "What do I do? How do I do cut and paste?"
I broke down cutting and pasting into steps for this lady. I discovered there were many many steps to it. I wish I still had that step by step way I had written down. If I do have it, I have no idea how to find it now. If I could show you what I had written, you would see how many steps there really are to cut and paste, far more than you would have thought.
The happy outcome was that this lady succeeded in cutting and pasting her first time around!
I discover I have a lot to say about the workings of the computer and the people who are involved with them, those to whom it comes easy, and those, like me, to whom it comes hard.
I will continue this tomorrow.
Comments
Dearest Gloria,
I am a bit to old to start becoming a computer Ace. As I understand the forum is about comments to the Heaven Letters, What comments can you make? Yes God I agree! or Hey God you made a mistake! I have argued with God in the past and evertime I had to amit at the end That I could never win an argument ith God and we both and up smiling at each other. I stopped arguing with God and even with Mieke nothing to gain with arguing and each H.L. message needs some anelising yourself to get the gist of it and I love it every morning. If anything else is in the forum I will be glad to try again, that is if Mieke allows me more time on the computer. Love You All
p.s. If to many mistakes in spelling and typing It is still dark here at 5 am and my glasse3s are near my bed and I will not risk waking My Mieke xxxJ
Beloved Jack, aha, so there is more to it!
I'll hold back the new blog entry I meant for today and respond to your forthright comment instead.
See you on next blog entry.
Loving you, Gloria
P.S. I would think that Mieke would have a hard time saying no to you. :)
How to copy and paste text from a website into an email
#1 Go to a web page that you will copy from. Moving your mouse cursor to the beginning of the first word of text to be copied, click and hold down the left mouse button. Keep that left mouse button pressed down and slowly drag the cursor towards the right, across the sentence. Do you see that the words become highlighted in blue? Good.
#2 Holding the left mouse button down, move the mouse down slowly. See how entire lines of text become highlighted? Good. Keeping the left mouse button pressed down move the mouse slowly up and then slowly down, then slowly right and slowly left. See how the motion of you moving the mouse up and down, left and right, with the mouse button pressed down, highlights text? Good. That's call *selecting* text. Text must be selected before it can be copied and then pasted. Let go of the mouse button. See how the selected text stays highlighted even after you let go of the mouse button? Good. Click the left mouse button (left click) once to release the selected text.
Play around at this for a minute then come back here. Try selecting: a sentence; 3 words; and then an entire paragraph. Select and release. Select and release. Select and release. All done? Good.
#3 Go ahead and select some text that you want to copy from the web page. Let go of the mouse button. The text will remain highlighted. Good. Now very slowly and carefully, click the *right* mouse button. A "menu" will appear. Very slowly move the mouse cursor to the word "copy" on the menu and click it (left button). Done? Good! The text you selected is temporarily stored inside the computers memory ready to be "pasted" in an email.
#4 Open up the email you would like to send to someone, click the right mouse button. Very slowly move the cursor to the word "paste" and left click once. Did the text you selected magically appear in the email? Well done!
Using this same method you can copy text from web pages and documents and past them into other documents, forms and emails.
*This tutorial may be slightly different for Macintosh computers that usually have one mouse button only.
******
That took about 30 min to write. 390 words. Many words can be trimmed from this and sentences re-written to make it much easier. Would you like to have a go?
It's really interesting trying to explain something technical like this that we who have been using computers for such a long time take for granted. I remember showing friends in South Africa who never owned or used a computer, what the Internet was all about and how computers worked. We did short lessons together on simple simple things like copying, cutting and pasting. Turning the computer on. Opening up a web browser.
I always like including the concept or big picture of what we are attempting to achieve, in the training.
It's interesting to see how the big picture of what we are doing, always...always has a bigger picture.