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!