Reflective Journal for the month of
September
For this month our tutor asked us to do some
activities by using different word processing features to product document. As
per his guidelines and the instructions I have performed all the seven
activities.
The activities
were as follows:
Ø Creating a table
Ø Making changes for the paragraph, Font, Font size, the
text color, choosing caps letters, Save a file as font activity.
Ø
Formatting Paragraphs
Ø Inserting the
shapes and grouping them together
Ø
Inserting the
equations
Ø Designing award certificate for
the best sport person, Designing first page of the newsletters page, Designing
birthday invitation card.
Ø Using mail merge to write a
letter.
As a teacher, the activities one to five were very
much useful specially while preparing the questions. In carrying out those
activities, I have learned so many other skills such as cropping, grouping,
inserting different types of equations and so on. Though I have been preparing question
papers for more than ten years of my teaching, I hardly used these skills and
that’s why I took a lot of time to complete these activities. It was quite
difficult for me and at the same time, I really enjoyed doing these activities.
Now, I can say that, I am confident enough to use those skills while preparing
any types of question papers and I think I have to keep on practicing these
skills so that I will use it whenever I make question/test papers. I have also shared
those skills among my friends thinking that it is very important for us as
teachers.
The sixth activity was also equally important for the
teachers because we as a teacher and parent, sometimes we have to design
birthday invitation card, newsletter, certificate, and write letters. To be
frankly speaking, I do not have skills or knowledge in designing the above
activities (birthday invitation card, newsletter, certificate and writing
letter using mail merge). These activities were all new for me. Though I have designed
invitation cards and certificates for my children but I haven’t used the word
processing features like Microsoft publisher. After struggling a lot, I have
done these activities and now I think I can design this type of documents
without others help within very short time. These activities were entirely new
insights for me and I would enthusiastically thank our tutor for assigning essential
tasks for us. While performing the above activities, I also faced a lot of
problems because I don’t have any ideas or skills on how to go about it but as
a saying goes “if there is a wheel, there is a way” I tried my best, I sort
help from my friends and at last, I could complete the assigned tasks on time.
Regarding the mail merges (last activity), I have gone
through the steps in detail time and again. I also contacted with my DE friends
through we chat and mobile but most of them were new for this activity and we
have the same problem, at last I requested one of the IT sir to help me in
carrying out this particular task. At last with the help of all these support, finally
I completed all the activities satisfactory. After having done all these
activities, I personally feel that ICT make our works effective and faster way
to perform the any kind of task.
To be frank, through this module I really enjoyed
doing all the activities which our tutor has assigned to us till date. Moreover,
through this module I have learned so many IT skills where I can apply those
skills in our daily life during our teaching and learning process as well as I
can share those skills to my friends and children.
Lastly, I would ardently thank our tutor for inspiring
me in the ICT world.
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