Using Microsoft Word and Visiting a Virtual World

Today in the tutorial we started off by completing quite a basic Microsoft Word task.
I found it fairly simple to do, as I have been using this program for many years and did a few computer classes back in high school. We had to type up a cover letter, make a few minor changes using various tools within the program and set up a mail merge. I found it quite difficult to work out the mail merge at first as it's been quite a while since I have used one.

I think that Microsoft Word is a very useful program to anyone. I find that I use it a lot for University assignments, resumes, cover letters, lyrics, etc. I also think the mail merge tool would come in very handy for a lot of businesses. However, I don't think that I would use this feature very much at all.

During the second part of the tutorial, we ventured into a little virtual world known as "Active Worlds" which is a 3D chat world environment that looks like a cross between a computer game, and a regular chat room. It wasn't very fun. There wasn't a lot of people there and they were all randoms. The aspect of it is fairly cool I guess, because you get to walk around, meet people from all over the world, and even fly on a magic carpet (I got stuck in a tree for about 5 mintues - it was hectic! Some dude with the user name "Zeppelin" helped me get out, which I was very thankful for. I then complimented his choice of username.)

Active Worlds, however, was not really my cup of tea. I'd prefer to use MSN or myspace where I actually know the people that I am talking to.