I worked with a customer at Best Buy, about a month ago, who was very similar to "Teacher B". She had her laptop for almost 4 years...let me repeat that...ALMOST 4 YEARS, when her son changed the default web browser to Firefox.
CUSTOMER: "When my son changed my Internet to Firefox, the Internet stopped working." ME: "Let me have a look at that... Hmmm... Seems to be working fine. (The default Firefox-Google homepage opens)" CUSTOMER: "But that's not my Internet! My Internet is Google." ME: "Google is just a website within the Internet. See... you can get to it by typing www.google.com, in your address bar." CUSTOMER: ³THAT¹S IT! THAT¹S my Internet! ...oh, but it¹s missing my Yahoo! Internet. (NOTE: She¹s referring to her bookmark bar)² ME: ³Let me try something... (I waved my invisible magic wand, while I opened up Internet Explorer)... Does this look familiar?² CUSTOMER: ³YAY! All my Internets are there! Thank you!!² ME: (Sets IE as the default browser and waits until the customer happily walks away to do a giant face-palm.) ---------------------------------------------- Bill Bell Asst. Technology Coordinator Monticello CUSD #25 Monticello, IL 61856 http://www.cafepress.com/tech-geeks ---------------------------------------------- On 9/8/10 9:54 AM, "Russ Gowin" <[email protected]> wrote: > Just when you think you've heard it all, I had a teacher (Teacher A) tell me > about something that happened earlier today with another teacher (Teacher > B). Teacher A came to my office to ask me for some help, after telling her > that I would be there in a few minutes, Teacher A proceeds to walk out of > the library but it stopped by Teacher B who is helping a student on a > library computer. Teacher B asks about doing research about the author of > the book her class is reading. Teacher A tells teacher B "Why don't you > just go to Google and type in the author's name?" to which Teacher B replies > "You can only do that on the computers in the lab that have the little > Google search bar in the upper right hand corner". Teacher A explains to B > "You don't have to use those computers, just type Google.com into your web > browser and it will take you to Google" to which Teacher B says "And this > works with any browser? How do you do it?". Teacher A tells B to "Click on > the address bar and type Google.com and press Enter" and Teacher B says "I > didn't know you could do that. Thanks". > > Ya know, you just can't make this stuff up. > > Russ Gowin > System Administrator > Technology Specialist > DeLand-Weldon CUSD #57 > 304 E. Illinois Route 10 > DeLand, IL 61839 > 217-736-2311 > > > | Subscription info at http://www.tech-geeks.org | >
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