6305- Power Point Lesson Plan; Dominique Swain Films

My biggest problem is that I have never taken a computer class before. Now I deeply regret that. I use dictionary.com quite a bit on most of the terms. Ninety percent of what I do is wrong. This is frustrating in two ways. Time is obviously an issue. Learning the parts that I finally get right is another issue. I tried to take notes,as I went along, but that gets even more confusing when 90% of your notes are wrong. (Adapt and overcome!)Now I take notes after I get something right, but even that is hard because I often learn by just trying several things; or "playing around with it." This approach is working better, but I don't always remember how I got to where I found success. But the approach is working better than trying to write everything down. It feels really good when you get something right. I was stressing out about posting this assignment on the web. Once I stumbled upon it, it was very easy. I felt like an idiot. I am used to that though. The creating of the assignment was relatively easy. The content part is my thing, the computer part is not. For example; I was stuck for two days trying to figure out the color change. The directions would not work. I could have left it the color it was, but I really wanted to do my best on it; try my best. I hate giving up, and now I am glad that I did not. Finally a friend showed me how to change the color; a way that was not in the tutorial. I'm not blaming the tutorial, I was probably doing something wrong. Changing the .pptx to a .ppt and then a .ppsx to a .pps, was an absolute nightmare. A friend helped me but I still could not get it right, but I finally did; but I was not sure how. Then later a classmate sent me a chat message asking me how I did it; I was horrified. There is no way I could not help her, so I went back I tried to figure out what I did. She finally got it on her blog but I was not sure if she had the .pps; she did get the .ppt though, and I think she got it right but, I was not positive. My lesson plan is on the web, buy anyone could make changes to it. I can't figure out how to make it so they cannot. I posted for help, so if I can; I will change it. I'm not sure if I even need to do that or not. Overall I am proud of my work.