Assigment 3B

I have now just completed Assignment 3B and what I have learnt in the process of this unit has been invaluable. I began this unit with limited technological knowledge and now my understanding has grown enormously. All the processes used in creating a website and a blog have been new to me and what I have learnt I can utilise practically in my teaching career. I am proud of the end result as it has taken a lot of effort to achieve it. I'm grateful for the learning I have received in this unit.

Assignment 3a is finally finished! My responsibility for the group assignment was completing a narrated power point presentation. I have never used powerpoint but it was much like a Word document. After completing the narrating, I uploaded it to authorStream and then put a link to the Lucky Number 9 home page. The biggest help was the companion website, whenever I was wondering what to do next, I kept referring back to this. I am learning heaps!!! The other 3 group members have done a good job with creating the rest of the educational resource.

Now that I have completed this assignment, I am looking forward to learning so much more by completing the group assignment.

When using Findit to locate references, I found so much information in regards to the topic and this will be extremely useful when I start teaching.

I chose to use Endnote to prepare my references and one of the problems that I encountered was that I was initially using Word Starter instead of Word so the toolbar was not showing up. When I had the problems, it forced me to read all of the information about Endnote and I now feel confident to use Endnote. I will be using Endnote in following assignments as I found it very user friendly in the end. I can't believe that I didn't know that it even existed. The 6 minute video was extremely helpful in using Endnote and I referred back to that several times for assistance.

I have had a number of issues when downloading programmes when doing this assignment and it has taught me to persist and in doing so I have learnt far more than I would of.  I am very determined to do as well as I can in this unit and I am very satisfied that I have fixed the issues that I had with the help of the IT Dept and the assignment is finally done!

This unit has encouraged me to explore the many options available when looking for information for an assignment. At the completion of this unit, I know that I will have far more confidence to source information and navigate the comp;uter far more efficiently. I also know that the knowledge that I gain in this unit will only help me further in the units to follow.