Thursday, April 14, 2011
Reflection
I have always used and been fluent in Word. I have had a lot of experience with Excel as well. I went to a computer training trade school for 7.5 months several years ago, and MS Office was one of the things we learned. I hadn't had MS Office on my computer at home for a long time, until just recently. My brother introduced me to OpenOffice.org. I have been using that program for the last year and a half. What I didn't know anything about was Googledocs. That was completely new and foreign new me. Though all the tabs and icons were basically the same as Open Office or Word, so it wasn't hard to navigate. I had to redo my Google spreadsheet like 4 times. I finally triumphed! My problem was the formatting, not the formulas or anything. I had a hard time visualizing how it should look and what should go where. I have learned that I am not as patient with myself as I thought. I will need to remember this in the future and practice it regularly. This will definitely help me in my learning. Slowing down. Slow and steady wins the race.
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Hi Penni,
ReplyDeleteSorry I'm late in the response to this posting. Apparently, a lesson I have not learned well is push 'save' when exiting a blog :)
I agree with you about the formatting of some of the programs. First off, I found that there are connection problems when the program seems too unstable to work with and that I should do something about that, before I begin to work through the sheets. That way, I know for sure my work isn't done in vain and left to be redone late.
I think if I have learned anything besides the objectives set in this class, it has been the basics about programs and computers that I wasn't aware of before.
This is my first computer class ever. Before now, I had little experience in computers. This has been enlightening, frustrating and confidence building in the long run. I am glad to know that you have been forced to slow down, also. That has been my largest obstacle, I seem to be more result oriented and less process even though I know better. I guess it's because I value sleep. Sleep helps the brain work better.