This week's lesson reminded me of how much I didn't know about Google Docs and Microsoft Office. It also told me to be curious about the software and Google services that I use on a day-to-day basis. While I couldn't remember all the tutorials taught by each student in the class, it all came back to me with a brief self-refresher course at home.
Out of all the tools discussed in class, the forms tool and the bibliography tool were the ones I found most useful. I felt my tech savvy meter increase very slightly. Then all the past situations where these types of tools would have been useful, came rushing back to me. I got the same reaction after learning the bibliography lesson. All the term papers of my past could have been completed quickly, and with greater ease with such a knowledge.
To keep the trend of being more tech-curious I found a great website to share with my classmates. I found addictivetips.com to have a plethora of daily tutorials for both the Mac and PC user. The site contained tutorials like "Read Google Reader Feeds in Full Form" and "Convert Youtube Videos to MP3 Audio On Any Device". Most tutorials contained easy step-by-step instructions as well as clear images to follow along for the visual learner.
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Out of all the tools discussed in class, the forms tool and the bibliography tool were the ones I found most useful. I felt my tech savvy meter increase very slightly. Then all the past situations where these types of tools would have been useful, came rushing back to me. I got the same reaction after learning the bibliography lesson. All the term papers of my past could have been completed quickly, and with greater ease with such a knowledge.
To keep the trend of being more tech-curious I found a great website to share with my classmates. I found addictivetips.com to have a plethora of daily tutorials for both the Mac and PC user. The site contained tutorials like "Read Google Reader Feeds in Full Form" and "Convert Youtube Videos to MP3 Audio On Any Device". Most tutorials contained easy step-by-step instructions as well as clear images to follow along for the visual learner.
Check it out!
Agreed. I absolutely dreaded doing the work cited portion of all my papers! HATED IT! I cannot even begin to tell you how many times I got points off on my research papers and even regular papers for making silly errors. I had a huge problem remembering the correct citation format for my science classes versus my art history classes. Even if I did get the format correct for the most part, I would always screw up some little thing like where to put the year or whether I was supposed to underline/italicize the titles. If I had known about this application on Word, my life would have been so much easier. There is no reason to have students struggle to get the correct citation format when there are programs such as this on Word. I do not think that it adds a whole lot to their knowledge. I would rather have my students focus on more useful concepts. Because of this, I think that I will let my future students in on this little secret so that their lives, and mine (because I won’t have to mark them down for their mistakes), will be that much easier.
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