Blog Journal Post #2
How I use MS Word:
Like the majority of other students, I use MS Word for writing the dreadful papers teachers love to give out. I've written research paper, short essays, poems, and even love letters using MS word. For the most part, I use the basic features of MS word. I use it as a spelling checking tool, word counting tool, and grammar checking tool. I have noticed that teacher use MS Word in a similar manner as myself. They too use word for spelling and grammar checking. Teacher also use word to put together assignments using the many functions word has to offer. For example, a teacher will put together a quiz and add color, graphics, and tables and columns. Those function are rarely used by the average MS word user.
Ideas from Ch. 9
After taking a minute to pull myself from re-learning all the wonderful tools that MS Word has to offer. I got a chance to read chapter 9 and to my surprise it brought back more memories of how great this software is. One feature, I absolutely love how MS Word allows you link words to actual Internet websites. In my opinion, that function may be the greatest of them all. The book also points out using excel spreadsheets and tables to help clarify ideas and thoughts to the viewers. The example the book gave was students using graphics in their documents sometimes clutter their work and make it look disorganized. If a teacher or student use tables, it helps organize and keep the presentation of their thoughts clear. I would incorporate as many applications of word processing as possible to help get my point across to students as a teacher.
New skill learned:
So far this class has more of a refresher course of the skill I have already learned and stopped using. We have only worked with MS word and it word processing applications. The majority of the applications are functions I have used before, and forgotten how to use them, but I have gained new skills from using them now. Before, I saw myself using MS Word because it was an assignment do. Know I see it as a tool to help teach students a specific subject. Therefore, the most important skill I learned is knowing when and how to use Word Processing Application to help teach a class. Also, I learned to always keep up with technology because it's not good to have a student teaching the teacher how to use programs to teach a class.
Like the majority of other students, I use MS Word for writing the dreadful papers teachers love to give out. I've written research paper, short essays, poems, and even love letters using MS word. For the most part, I use the basic features of MS word. I use it as a spelling checking tool, word counting tool, and grammar checking tool. I have noticed that teacher use MS Word in a similar manner as myself. They too use word for spelling and grammar checking. Teacher also use word to put together assignments using the many functions word has to offer. For example, a teacher will put together a quiz and add color, graphics, and tables and columns. Those function are rarely used by the average MS word user.
Ideas from Ch. 9
After taking a minute to pull myself from re-learning all the wonderful tools that MS Word has to offer. I got a chance to read chapter 9 and to my surprise it brought back more memories of how great this software is. One feature, I absolutely love how MS Word allows you link words to actual Internet websites. In my opinion, that function may be the greatest of them all. The book also points out using excel spreadsheets and tables to help clarify ideas and thoughts to the viewers. The example the book gave was students using graphics in their documents sometimes clutter their work and make it look disorganized. If a teacher or student use tables, it helps organize and keep the presentation of their thoughts clear. I would incorporate as many applications of word processing as possible to help get my point across to students as a teacher.
New skill learned:
So far this class has more of a refresher course of the skill I have already learned and stopped using. We have only worked with MS word and it word processing applications. The majority of the applications are functions I have used before, and forgotten how to use them, but I have gained new skills from using them now. Before, I saw myself using MS Word because it was an assignment do. Know I see it as a tool to help teach students a specific subject. Therefore, the most important skill I learned is knowing when and how to use Word Processing Application to help teach a class. Also, I learned to always keep up with technology because it's not good to have a student teaching the teacher how to use programs to teach a class.
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