U-Blog 5

This week my group did our workshop at the Heritage. We did our project on OpenOffice Writer. That application is free and it's also very similar to Microsoft Word. I thought we had a great group and did a pretty good job with the presentation. For our powerpoint, we tried to lay everything out as simply as possible. We had step by step directions for the assignments we gave the students to work on. We began by going over the basics of Writer and telling some things it can be used for. We then took screen shots of each step for their assignment. First, we took a screenshot showing how to open writer by double clicking the icon, or by using the start menu and finding writer through there. Once they had Writer open, we had them write at least one paragraph about how they felt about using a computer now that they had been through several workshops. This was pretty much the bulk of the class time. We also had steps going through how to save the document, reopen the document, as well as editing the document by chaning the font, font size, and also making something bold, italic or underlined. We planned to have them go through each step one by one but that really didn't seem to happen. Some students were actually able to get through the entire thing very early, and some were behind. We found it very hard to get their attention again to go over the next step once they began to use the computer. My advice to any future teams, make sure you say everything you need to before you let them begin their assignment. Over all the class did very well and I was very pleased with our workshop.