Week 3: MS Word
Sorry for the late blog.
I have a lot of experience using Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, but these tutorials are still wonderful. I know at my old job, they were clueless when it came to MS Office, and I will be sending them the tutorial links since they don't have me to answer all their questions anymore.
In college I used MS Word mostly as a word processor and worksheet creator, and but senior year we had a wonderful senior chemistry project where we fully utilized the review features. This was my first experience using the comments and tracking tools. We had groups of 4, and when each person wrote their rough draft, we had to correct them and send back. I know that my profession thanked my for my hard work on one student's paper specifically. But I also loved having feedback from 3 other people that was so easy to access. It was much simpler to edit using computerized suggestions than hand written remarks.
Mail merge is something new for me, and I'm not sure how often I will use it. There are some possible side-jobs that I might try and get where I would use that feature, or letters home to parents. We'll have to see how my life plays out.
Mail merge does often confuse people especially in education regarding ways in which educators can use it-- besides for notes home to parents, you could also use it to send home emails with grades or details about a particular student's performance if you are keeping track using excel.
ReplyDeleteI too like the review features. I agree, it does make it a lot easier to make changes when it's all electronically. I had a professor that shared an example research paper and used the review features to make notes to share with us good and bad parts of the example paper, it was really helpful. I agree about the mail merge. I did not know it existed and I too only see it helpful in sending letters home to parents.
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