Okay Ladies and Gentlemen, sign me up..... I have a degree in art ed., but computers boggle my mind. Personally, if I don't have someone standing there walking me through every move, with great patience, while I take notes doing something I am doing, not some hypothetical process, you might as well be talking to an infant. Preschoolers are smarter. Then through repetition while referring to MY notes, not some book, for dummies or otherwise, I learn to do it. My husband gets exasperated at me, but he isn't art oriented either. He troubleshoots and repairs multi-level computer circuit boards through a high power microscope for the gov. Oh, and by the way, I am a lousy speller. Another example, our dau. and our SIL. He is an attorney, passed the board second time, which is excellant. He is profoundly deaf and the adjustment for his disability was not made available the first time. In spite of that, he failed by a very thin margin. Our dau. only went to law school. However, her BA grades, LSAT (SAT for law school) and her grades while in law school were only slightly better than his. They preferred different areas of law, his is HR and hers was contract law, so even without a law degree, sometimes she can enlighten him on the nuances. My point on operating computers or any other ability has nothing to do with intelligence or effort and completely to do with your personal learning process and interests. Everyone has a brain wired just for themselves and we have to use what we have in the most productive ways.......... I don't want to know how a computer works !!!! I just want to know which key do I hit when, to make the fricken thing do what I want it to do when I want it to do it. Oh and I suppose.... what to do when I hit the wrong key and it does something weird I can't correct........but that is another issue ...... Tricia M. ________________________________________ From: <Jasskirv@aol.com> > In a message dated 11/15/2006 1:52:37 PM US Mountain Standard Time, > cheinric@tca.net writes: > > If the new modem doesn't help, I guess I am going to be forced to call > tech support. ( I hate to do that. I want a person right there to show > me-and fix it if I don't know what they are talking about! I hate to > talk > on the phone, especially about something I don't know what I am talking > about-or what the other person is saying!) > Ah, Cecelia, what is it about us that hates to use the telephone? I have > written more letters in the 8 or so years since I learned how to use the > computer than in the previous 69 (give or take a few for learning to read > and > write.) This is one of the things I object to when I see videos telling > me how to > do something. I need to see it written down step by step. My husband was > in > large frame computers for 30 years before retiring. Even he has > difficulty > following instructions over the telephone. > > Joan in Scottsdale, AZ whose HOHMEISTER ancestors were from Dens, > Kurhessen > (now Hesse) and WEISENBORN ancestors from Herleshausen in what is now > Thuringia. Haven't been able to trace the FRICKE ancestors, yet.

First question - what operating system are you using? e.g.Microsoft XP ? Bruce -----Original Message----- From: germany-passenger-lists-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:germany-passenger-lists-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of rbbtfarm Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2006 4:17 PM To: germany-passenger-lists@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [G-P-L] computer literacy and education comment Okay Ladies and Gentlemen, sign me up..... I have a degree in art ed., but computers boggle my mind. Personally, if I don't have someone standing there walking me through every move, with great patience, while I take notes doing something I am doing, not some hypothetical process, you might as well be talking to an infant. Preschoolers are smarter. Then through repetition while referring to MY notes, not some book, for dummies or otherwise, I learn to do it. My husband gets exasperated at me, but he isn't art oriented either. He troubleshoots and repairs multi-level computer circuit boards through a high power microscope for the gov. Oh, and by the way, I am a lousy speller. Another example, our dau. and our SIL. He is an attorney, passed the board second time, which is excellant. He is profoundly deaf and the adjustment for his disability was not made available the first time. In spite of that, he failed by a very thin margin. Our dau. only went to law school. However, her BA grades, LSAT (SAT for law school) and her grades while in law school were only slightly better than his. They preferred different areas of law, his is HR and hers was contract law, so even without a law degree, sometimes she can enlighten him on the nuances. My point on operating computers or any other ability has nothing to do with intelligence or effort and completely to do with your personal learning process and interests. Everyone has a brain wired just for themselves and we have to use what we have in the most productive ways.......... I don't want to know how a computer works !!!! I just want to know which key do I hit when, to make the fricken thing do what I want it to do when I want it to do it. Oh and I suppose.... what to do when I hit the wrong key and it does something weird I can't correct........but that is another issue ...... Tricia M. ________________________________________ From: <Jasskirv@aol.com> > In a message dated 11/15/2006 1:52:37 PM US Mountain Standard Time, > cheinric@tca.net writes: > > If the new modem doesn't help, I guess I am going to be forced to > call tech support. ( I hate to do that. I want a person right there > to show me-and fix it if I don't know what they are talking about! I > hate to talk on the phone, especially about something I don't know > what I am talking about-or what the other person is saying!) > Ah, Cecelia, what is it about us that hates to use the telephone? I > have written more letters in the 8 or so years since I learned how to > use the computer than in the previous 69 (give or take a few for > learning to read and > write.) This is one of the things I object to when I see videos > telling me how to do something. I need to see it written down step by > step. My husband was in large frame computers for 30 years before > retiring. Even he has difficulty following instructions over the > telephone. > > Joan in Scottsdale, AZ whose HOHMEISTER ancestors were from Dens, > Kurhessen (now Hesse) and WEISENBORN ancestors from Herleshausen in > what is now Thuringia. Haven't been able to trace the FRICKE > ancestors, yet. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GERMANY-PASSENGER-LISTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message