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.
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.
