U-Blog 5

Well our team gave our presentation this past Monday and I can honestly say I enjoyed it. We gave our presentation on OpenOffice Writer which is similar to Microsoft Word and the class responded very well to it. They were excited about learning to write letters and the different features the program had like spellcheck, changing the text size and color, highlighting, and being able to put the text in bold and italics. By the time I came up to do my part most of the class was moving faster than I could read the steps to them. The class was fascinated with the program overall and they seemed excited about being able to download themselves when they got home. I'm pretty sure everyone in the group was a little nervous at first, but as soon as it was time to start everything fell right in place and everyone stepped up to the plate and delivered. I enjoyed working with the group I was in because everyone did their part and was ready when the time came for us to give our presentation. I hope the other teams' experience goes just as smooth as ours did.

U-Blog 4

As we draw nearer to conducting our technology training I must admit, I begin to grow more excited. I'm looking forward to meeting our audience and teaching them about yet another aspect of personal computer use. At first I was a little apprehensive about having to teach more mature learners, but after talking to some of our classmates that have made the trip already, my concerns have been relieved. So far I've been hearing that they are very eager to learn, very attentive, and not afraid to ask questions and participate. I guess when we were first presented with the idea of having to teach a class, my first thoughts were of the worst possible scenario as if we were going to be teaching 5 year olds. Now that I know that it's going to be exactly the opposite, my expectations are sky high for this project and the class. I was wondering if ther was anyone else that had the same fears or thoughts first going into this project and if so, do you still feel that way at this point?