Strategy: Facebook for sharing ideas
7 Keywords: New Software, Facebook, Sharing, Stress, Experimenting, Assignments, Research
"I think they just expect us all to [know how to use the software], because some people took a course last year, where they had to have the program software called “RasMol”. So they’ve all got that. But some of us didn’t take the course and don’t have it. RasMol is the older version, which is on the workstations here at university, and I think our tutor wants us to download Pymol version 0.99, which is free, but whenever I try to download - its just a pain!
"I use FaceBook for obviously linking up with people, but also in some cases for work - so discussing things about work. So I suppose I learn probably through other people, but there are manuals online, and we are expected to go through those."
In this case I ended up going to an example already on a web page and looked at the source code to make the chemical work - I did not really learn how to make use of the software until later!
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"I suppose, things like with the new software where we’ve got to download pymol and chyme, I don’t know how to do it. So sometimes that’s a bit daunting."
- Sarah WTip
How to Make Facebook Useful Again has some good ideas for working more efficiently with Facebook and if you are worried about the amount of time you spend on Facebook try LeechBlock. You can set up times when you feel you should be working on other things!
