[VVP] Getting to know the Mac
Last workshop in the VVP program, we started off with a human barometer, which is a activity to see who agrees, disagrees, or feels unsure about a certain statement. The human barometer gives you a sense of who has conflicting or different ideas, or who thinks alike. It's sometimes good to see everyone scattered because opposing views give people a different perspective on things.
After that, we went on to getting to know our Macs. I think this is a new addition to the program because I do not remember doing this last year; however, it is good that we got to do this workshop since it's important for us to get to know the laptops we will be using for the remainder of the year. After getting the laptops, we took a picture of ourselves using the Photo Booth application in the Mac computers. It was great to see everyone add effects to their images using a mac for the first time. We used the pictures as the background to our desktops. So, from now on, when we turn on our laptops we can always look back at that day.
Then we got little slips of paper, and it gave instructions on something interesting you can do on a mac. The slip that Yessenia and I got instructed us to take a screen-shot. I think this is probably one of the best unique features of the mac because, unlike in a PC, you can just highlight the part of your screen that the shot is of. It's almost like focusing a camera or zooming in onto something. After we got to know how to do it, we had to go up and show it to everyone else. It was great to teach everyone something about the mac, and it was also wonderful to learn something from the other VVP participants.
