Week 2

SCREEN SHOTS

Screen shot 1; Microsoft word.


Screen shot 2; Microsoft excel.

Microsoft Excel Exercise- Tables, Formulae and Charts

TUTORIAL
The pressure of the University Preparation course has began! We officially all have enough assignments and work to complete. Each unit has given us an assessment to focus on and have completed by the due dates. Therefore it was convenient that in this week’s tutorial for UPC0004; Accessing knowledge, we were educated about time management. In assisting us to understand how to manage our time we were asked to complete a daily schedule. The schedule was completed by using a program called Microsoft Excel.

LECTURE
I feel the lecture today was useful towards my learning as it was informing us about common applications, file formats, and general tips when using our PC. The programs that we briefly looked into on the computer where windows explorer, Microsoft word, Microsoft excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, Outlook express and Adobe Acrobat Reader. Helen taught us which program would be suitable for completing certain tasks also the knowledge on how to perform specific task within a specific application.



ACTIVITY 1
For the first part of the tutorial we were given time to update our blogs. Once our blogs were updated we moved onto Microsoft Excel. The main problem that I came across when using excel was that I have been using an older version. The version that I am familiar with is Excel 2003 where as the ECU computers contain Microsoft Excel 2007. Therefore things like the icons and location of each button was different. I got confused but I also found it amusing.

The task that we were asked to complete in Microsoft Excel consisted of a timetable, pie graph and bar graph based on our daily activities. Starting off with the timetable we filled in activities such as sleeping, exercising, eating, travelling etc. The time that all these activities took had to add up to 168 hours. Then by adding each activity up and dividing it by seven we found the average hours we spent on each activity per day.

After determining the average for each activity, constructing a pie graph was the second task. I found this task interesting as it clearly determined how much each individual sleeps, eats, exercises etc a day. The activities where labelled down the side of the pie graph and colour coordinated. Another method where the activities were clearly identified was the bar graph indicated what day each individual either socializes, works, studies the most.

ACTIVITY 2
The second activity in which we completed in class was in Microsoft word. To complete this activity I followed the document which was supplied to us titled “reading_Mod01-2-5.pdf.” From this document I learnt how do complete several things such as; Adjusting the typeface, changing the margins and alignment , altering line spacing , Creating headings, keeping the headings with text and inserting headings and footers within a page.

READING SUMMARIES
Reading 1; Using MS Word for APA tasks.
This document contains useful information regarding how to operate and understand Microsoft word. It assists and educates readers about the fundamental elements in Microsoft word. Although the main problem with this reading is that the information is based on an older version of word and not the 2007 version. The document contained general tips on how to complete tasks that we had to complete in our workshop. I found it useful as the document had a written description of the steps and a diagram to assist each description.

Reading 2; Graphic File Formats
This reading was a capture from the webpage: http://www.knight-web.net/tutorials/photoshop/ and is a descriptive document about graphics and images. The document provides information about saving and editing images on the computer and internet. There are five different image formats within this page and each format provides an explanation on what the format is used for and how it is used. I personally found this document useful and next time I format a picture I will consider using the PhotoShop document as it format 2D pictures.

well that is all until week 3.....