Monday, March 26, 2007
Blog # 9
I thought the midterm was appropriately challenging. I had to really think about question number one because I had not reviewed the extensions before the test. I know I lost a little bit of time on this question but, I think I got remembered them all. Adjusting the document margins was easy for me, as was inserting a header and using WordArt. The ISTE search was a little tricky because when I searched for an article with the word ‘ethics’ in the title, the first two results did not look like journal articles to me. The first two results either did not have an author or did not have a journal issue listed. So, I did not know if # 2 was a trick question or not….not that Erika would do that to us . I decided to go with the third article listed because it showed both a journal issue and an author…I hope that was right! Question # 3 on Excel took me a few minutes until I realized I had to compute the numbers into percentages of the total number of students before I could make an accurate pie chart. The questions about average and sum formulas were fairly easy to me because I reviewed them beforehand. The use of Clipart and wrapping text around a picture was also fairly easy. However, I did not know how to wrap text before we did the Newsletter. Question # 7 on Inspiration got me! I had my Inspiration diagram all done but, because I still do not know how to do a screen shot I lost the notes part of the diagram when I copied and pasted it into my midterm! I can’t believe I forgot to learn how to do a screen shot! It is such a simple thing and since I am not a Mac user, I forgot all about it! I also thought the question about PowerPoint was fairly easy. I am familiar with PowerPoint and I actually remembered the lecture on PowerPoint, so coming up with three things to consider when making a PowerPoint presentation came pretty easily. All in all, I think I did pretty well, but not without effort.
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I agree that the midterm was very fair and appropriate. I had to think a bit about the screen shot as well but luckily figured it out after pressing various combinations of keys. The ISTE search question was most difficult for me as well. I usually just search ISTE for the article title we need to read so I am not too familiar with ISTE webpage and search options much.
Hi Noelle,
It sound's like you did pretty well. I had the same issues with the things that you did. I also forgot how to do the screen shot. It took me awhile to figure out that I needed to compute the items on excel in order to make a pie chart. Overall, I thought the exam was fair.
Hi Noelle,
You sound like you did well on the test. That's great. I struggled with that darn screenshot as well. I ended up e-mailing it to Erika and getting marked down, of course. I also thought is was a fair and appropriately challenging test. I found in taking the test, that there are a lot of short cuts that I have not incorporated into my navigation that really slows me down. I was finished with the test at 8:30.
I agree with you about the ISTE search. I think I spent the most time searching for that article. The first article was about the Code of Ethics for ISTE members and I thought we were actually searching for something solely about ethics. I was confused for a while, but I finally figured that what I found had to be right, as I typed the Code of Ethics in as my answer. I guess we were right!
I totally agree, I thought the midterm was very fair and appropriate. I liked that it had a sample of everything that we had been working on in class.
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