Blog #1

The first time I met with my partner, Helen, was on Monday, October 1^st. She had a list of questions to ask me and tasks to accomplish, but she seemed to have misplaced it. Therefore, we didn’t do much because she couldn’t remember any of the things she wanted to ask me. The things we did get accomplished included adding and deleting a contact from her email, learning how to navigate around her gmail account, reinstalling the favorites bar to the top her Google Chrome browser, and adding and deleting favorites from her favorites bar. The entire session, she took notes so that she would be able to do these things on her own. After I taught her how to do each of these tasks, I undid them so that she could do them again herself using her notes, which she managed without any trouble. In this session, I learned that Helen is rather tech savvy and can take instructions well. I thought it was very smart of her to take her own note. Had I done them myself, she wouldn’t have been able to execute the tasks because it would have been in my words and not hers. Her notes consisted mainly of little pictures to help her remember where she was supposed to click. The tasks done in this session relate to what we have been learning in class because we have learned about different internet browsers, Google Chrome being one of them.