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Shirley Perez Ochoa

Reflection Paper Assignment


EDT 180 Section D
April 20, 2019

What EDT 180 Has Taught Me

As a previous student at Estrella Mountain Community College, a current student at Arizona

State University, and an Office Program Aid, I have found what I’ve learned in EDT 180 very

useful as a huge part of my daily routine at school and work. I decided to take a course on tech

literacy problem solving using digital technology applications so I can learn more about

computer applications that I had to use for class assignments or for work. I truly believe this

class has taught me a lot about simple computer software, which is extremely helpful now and

for the long run, because it has taught me the ins-and-outs of basic computer software, just like

creating your own personal blog and analyzing raw data on excel.

Word is the most commonly utilized Microsoft program by college students. Its purpose is to

allow users to type and save documents, and similar to other word processors, it has helpful tools

to make documents. This Microsoft program is by far the one I am most familiar with and use

most often, especially since a majority of instructors assign projects and assignments using this

program. I've always felt comfortable using Word because I've always considered myself

productive and efficient at using it, but taking this course I realized there were a lot of things I

did not know. Word is a Microsoft application that makes typing documents easy and simple, but

I learned that even the easiest program has its tricks. These helpful shortcuts that I learned in the

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class will certainly help me with all my future endeavors as a student at Arizona State

University.

Microsoft Excel is a spreadsheet program that is mostly used to create grids of text, numbers and

formulas specifying calculations. That's extremely valuable for many businesses, which use it to

record expenditures and income, plan budgets, chart data and succinctly present fiscal results,

like how I did in the examples below. Whether I am trying to keep track of my calorie intake or

set up a personal budget, Excel is the most effective and efficient application to use. In high

school, I knew little to nothing about how to use this program, not even when I was in the ACE

program did I learn how to use Excel. Starting this course, I had no idea what I was doing, but

thankfully I was able to learn more about Excel and apply it to my everyday life, such as at

school, home and work. This will definitely be a helpful resource for the career path I want.

Publisher is a desktop publishing program we used in this class to create a variety of

publications. Using Publisher, you can easily create business cards, greeting cards, calendars,

newsletters, and brochures. I really enjoyed learning about publisher, it was one the best part of

this class. Below is Newsletter that I created about a K-pop group that I am very fond of, I

wanted to share with others about the good deeds that they do out of the kindness of their hearts

and publisher help me do so. This application offers a great amount of different templates to use

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April 20, 2019
for different occasions. It is not a hard application to figure how to use, it is definitely something

for everyone to use. Publisher will surely be used for my future career to create brochures and

newsletters

Photoshop is considered one of the leaders in photo editing software, revolutionizing modern

society till this day. This software allows users to manipulate, crop, resize, and correct color on

digital photos, in regards to the media, Photoshop is used to manipulate how one sees life around

them. It is inevitable to see manipulated photos everywhere, like in magazines, social media,

billboards, etc. It is very interesting seeing how much can be changed without tracing back the

changes that were made, and how a simple application can alter the appearance of someone,

either by removing blemishes, tattoos, and even resizing the body or face structure, all with just

the click of a button. It really makes a person wonder if there has ever been a picture that hasn't

been altered in social media. Overall, there are many different functions and tools in Photoshop

that I played with and really enjoyed using.

PowerPoint is a computer program that allows you to create and show slides to support

a presentation. You can combine text, images and multi-media content to create a professional

presentations or just to have fun with it like I did below. This application is a very effective tool

that helps display information or ideas that you want to share with others. PowerPoints are

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Reflection Paper Assignment
EDT 180 Section D
April 20, 2019
sometimes viewed as boring because there's usually a bland screen with a whole bunch of words

on it, but when you explore the different things PowerPoint offers it's very exciting. This

is definitely a vital tool for any student or person whose career requires presentations. It's easy

and fun to create using the navigation tools provided and it can be as simple as creating a fun

PowerPoint presentation to showcase different breeds of dogs, just like I did.

Over the course of this semester, I completed many assignments in my EDT 180 class, software

that I am familiar with, but never knew beyond the basics. I had projects that required us to use

the basic computer programs such as Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, but also other software that I

had no idea how easy it was to use, such as photoshop, publisher, and Weebly.

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