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reflection 3.3
jacks assignment                                                   aitsl standard 3.3

When I first read Assignment One I knew the easiest part would be editing Jack's work as Microsoft Word is the program I am most comfortable with.  I found inserting track changes, comments and highlighting text easy. 

After I had completed these changes I viewed Dr Sue Gregory's video on Moodle,  This inspired me to play with the functions that I normally left untouched. I had fun, and invested many hours, scrolling through the shading options with WordArt, inserting shapes, manipulating shapes and adding text to those boxes.  I even inserted a SmartArt Graphic and a symbol at the bottom of Jack's assignment.  The biggest challenge was making a decision about what to keep.

Whilst Word has some great creative tools, I found the limitation of where you can insert these options annoying and better suited to PowerPoint.  In the future, I will ensure that I use a program which suits my needs.  When I am teaching I will ask the students to write their assignment using the format that matches my marking requirements.

At first, I found trying to upload Jack's assignment into my ePortfolio very time consuming and frustrating.  It was not until I listened again to Dr Sue Gregory's Lecture that I realised I needed to save my file as an image document.  From now on, when I have to upload a document onto the internet, I will save it as a image file.

Once I had uploaded my document I was disappointed to see how it actually looked in my ePortfolio.  It was small, hard to read and I felt that it did not show case my document well.  As a result, I learned how to resize Jack's assignment using Powerpoint and then Microsoft Paint.  This was a laborious task but it taught me a lot and I now feel more comfortable with the cropping functionalities of PowerPoint and the resizing options in Paint.  In the future, I will allow more time to edit my Word documents so they can be clearly presented in my ePortfolio.

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