ILP #!

Hey everyone!

Today I completed my Individual Learning Project, Participation, and completed a Lynda tutorial. This blog post will tell you what I learned and how I felt about the learning experience through Lynda. In Lynda, I watched the tutorial “New features in Gmail.” This taught me about the new features that Gmail would be offering in 2018. I learned how you can switch from new interphase and the classic phase, which is actually a very simple procedure if you are on a personal account. The new interphase will be permanent soon, but this tutorial helped my get a jump start on how to work the new interphase. I learned how to snooze an email, and so the email will only come up to the top of your inbox when it is relevant. You can snooze it until you have time to read it, without worrying about it getting lost in your other emails. You can also now preview your email without opening, so that you do not have to “read” an email if you do not have time to process the whole email. If these shortcuts get to be too much, you can just disable them so they are not in your way.

The far right side of Gmail now has a sidebar to see Google calendar, and quickly preview the calendar , while staying the Gmail page. You know can access “Keep” notes on your Gmail on the sidebar, which is a note taking app. This way you can access your notes across all devices. Tasks is a new feature on the sidebar, to add a item to a to do list, or make multiple lists. These tools are all Google tools accessible from the sidebar, however we can also access third party tools from this sidebar. You simply have to install them to the sidebar, and sign into your account. You know have a shortcut for outside sources on Gmail sidebar. Another new feature, Gmail now has artificial intelligence by formulating replies that you may want to reply with. For example, if someone says “ When can we meet?” you can easily select a day with the smart reply, and then you can cut down your response time. Gmail also added an automatic flagging system to who they it thinks is an important message, based off who you answer most, the context, and how fast you answer.

I learned so many important features that can help me better navigate through my Gmail account thanks to the Lynda tutorial. Now I can access Gmail to the best of its ability, and not be wasting precious resources. These tutorials not only told me or had me read how-to’s but showed  me in a video so I could see exactly how to access and use the new materials. Overall, I loved the Lynda platform for learning, and will definitely be using it to learn more into detail about other technologies I could eventually use in a classroom, or even just for day to day life. Lynda was super convenient and easy to use, and I had a great learning experience.

Here is a copy of my notes I took during the tutorial