EDEL 2200-001

This week in Edel 2200, we worked with a few different programs. First of all on tuesday we started working with Microsoft Word. We began going over the very basics and then moved on to a little more detailed tools. First off we learned how to create a new document. We then typed two or three sentences and learned how to format them by changing the font, color and size. We also learned about a button in the top left corner which allowed you to high light your text then it automatically formatted it to the rest of the document. I thought this was cool, because i have used word a lot in my life and have never known about this little shortcut. We then moved on the word art, which is a fun little detail that word has. It lets you create fun looking unique titles, phrases and words. With word art, you can make the word have shadows, form a circle or any other shape, make it go vertical or slanted, have any color, shade and even texture! It was really fun to play around with word art. We also learned how to costomize your own microsoft word on your own computer. For instance, if you want to have your text verdana always and size 14 then you can go in and make it so everytime you access word and type it types in verdana and 14 point font with out you having to go in and change it. We then had a fun assignment to create our own dream computer and we filled out info on what we would want our dream computer to be then we copy and pasted pictures from the internet onto the document.

I know that word will help me a TON when i become a teacher. Word is where i will want to type up all my lesson plans, Students worksheets, notes to send home with the children and letters. It is a very usful program. I really like working in word, because it is simple to work in once you have learned how to do it. It also has SO many different tools and I want to learn more details about the program one day because it has a lot to offer.

Another program we used this week in computer was excel. I have worked some in excel but only know a few of the basics. We made a chart of the top five countries gold medals in an event we chose. And also created a pie chart to give us a visual look at it.

I think excel will come in handy when I am a teacher, because it would be a good place to create schedules, charts and graphs for my future classroom.