Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Seniornet

Yes, I know it is a long time since I posted, but you know how it is, things crop up and you just don't get around to it.

What's been happening? Well, mainly I am now involved with Taupo SeniorNet and find the time just goes so quickly! Tutoring, maintaining the website, studying manuals, and now I have accepted the Course Registrar's job. This is something I am very new at, but hope to do a good job and keep things humming along as well as my predecessor has done for the past 11 or so years.

Today was our AGM and we were very fortunate to have Grant Sidaway from Seniornet Federation speak to us. He is so motivating and a great presenter, I think we all agree on that. His talk consisted of "New Technologies" a subject close to my heart, as I just love trying out new gadgets and couldn't wait to get home and try something on my Android Tablet. Similar to the iPad, and does almost everything you can think of. (Unfortunately there is no app that will clean one's oven or scrub out the shower!)
I tried the app called Shazam. You open it and then point the device at the music which is playing and it collects the song and the information about the track, name of singer, band, etc and you then have the option of "tagging" the song. You can make a playlist, or watch the artist performing the song on YouTube. Truly amazing! I needed to do a bit of fine tuning (please excuse the pun) but I succeeded in getting a couple of my fave songs onto my Droid.

I am hoping to be able to blog a bit more in the future, so as to keep up with the different goings on in my life with Seniornet. I will try not to be boring!