Tuesday, July 20, 2010

Week 8: Frustration Sets In

This week took me about 2 weeks to do, not all entirely because of the length of the tests and projects, though some of it was atomic learning's fault.
You should know that I think my desktop is close to failure, so loading things sometimes takes a while and things regularly close or freeze on me, causing me to completely reboot.
On the other hand, atomic learning would not save my tests, so I had to start my assessments several times over. This took hours.
I am not as technologically intelligent as I would like to be, as my final assessment shows. I do know enough, though, I think, to get around the computer and use a lot of really cool digital tools.
This week, I chose to learn about audacity and windows movie maker. I have tried both of these programs on my own to edit sound and video, and have been quite discouraged. Now, I can say I can probably get by on them with a little practice. Given the two, I really like movie maker and would like to practice with it for a while to make digital presentations and possibly my vlog or video podcasts that I have been promising myself I would do. I think time and practice are what is necessary to achieve on this program.

1 comment:

  1. Atomic Learning is a useful tool, however their inability to save tests can cause frustration as you have seen. I am glad you stuck with it. It is amazing the things that you know that you didn't realize you knew and all the magnitude of "stuff" out there that we still need to learn.

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