Friday, March 4, 2011

Microsoft Office H.E.L.P

With any other proccesor, Open Office, Google Docs or Zoho Suite offers help links for anyone to use. I'm sure many have to learn before using it in their classrooms or lessons. Teachers can learn much more now about technology then from 20 years ago. Our world is changing vastly and teachers improve their lessons and projects for classes with findings like these. If they are able to use them, it's easier to past it on to the students. I have had many issues with not knowing how to use a processor of some sort. One that I can think of was in Microsoft Office, I was taking a computer course at FTCC a few semesters ago and we had to make flyers. It looked so simple and easy to do and I did it, but what I didn't understand was how to create borders. I was puzzled. I wanted to just finish the project so I just did what I had to do and skipped obviously a few important steps to what the teacher was looking for. So I went back and read step by step how to create the borders. So in other words I was basically looking at a picture and recreating it without listening to her directions. So I did delete it and spent the half hour that it said it would take and repeated but did it step by step this time. I never had to help a colleague fix a problem with a problem but more along the lines of a student in my class. She was to create the same thing, a flyer. But she was doing it for something that she was attending and wanted to make it look creative, fun, and represented her. So we found pictures of herself and inserted it into the flyer but she wasn't quite sure how. I told her to save the picture she wanted in a file and then go through BROWSE to look up her picture. After that she understood that you have to have a file for it in order to insert the picture itself. If anyone is ever puzzled like I was, the HELP link can offer many questions already been asked previously. Sometimes I use youtube and it shows you step by step for those who are visual learners.

4 comments:

  1. Angie, You are right about the HELP link. I cannot figure out how to create a hyperlink for my venn diagram and Dr.Keesee said to look there. I wish I had more time to work on this class.

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  2. Hey Angie, thanks for the suggestion about the YouTube. I may need to use that. It sounds like we have something in common. Sometimes I waste so much time doing it wrong, and then I find the directions for doing it the correct way. If I had started with the directions to begin with, I would have finished a lot sooner, and could have finished the other assignments!

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  3. I use YouTube a lot for looking up how to do something. I'm a Concrete Random Learner(Trial and Error) too so most of the time I jump in mess it up completely, get frustrated and do it right the second time.

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  4. I'm sometimes more of a visual learner then reading directions step by step. I get frustrated with things very easily. When it's just worded, I seem to not understand it, but visually, like when Dr. Keesee did the one weekend where she made a video on what we had to do, I caught up quickly. But having to learn it step by step right now for me is time consuming. I do have a hard time with this class. I'm not sure how well I am doing but I hope its worth all that I am putting towards this class!

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