Reflection on Unit 1

What have you learned about yourself during this unit?
What triumphs did you celebrate? What challenges remain?
How will your new or transformed experience help you in your learning?

I have learned that I get very impatient and frustrated with my computer when it doesn't react the way I expect it to. I am usually an easygoing person, but while trying to complete last week's spreadsheet assignment I became very stressed and had to call on my husband for help. I had completed the first document and was trying to save it, but my computer wouIdn't let me do anything with it and I didn't understand why. So my husband had me go back to the beginning of the assignment and found that I had simply opened the template document, not saved it to my computer, so I had to redo the entire thing. So, if I had only followed the directions exactly without jumping ahead, thinking I knew what I was doing, I would have saved myself some time and frustration. Also, I am glad I had someone to ask.

I was intrigued when I went to Google docs and found that I already had documents in there. I had no idea they were there! Evidently someone shared them with me because I have a Google gmail account. I am glad that I know about Google docs now and can use it. Also, I was happy to find that, although I was terrified of spreadsheets, they weren't as hard as I thought to work with, though perhaps I should check my grade on those before I make a definitive judgment. Overall, everything has been easier than expected once I have gotten over my initial anxiety. I think that this course is helping me to become more comfortable with computers and less scared of just poking around and figuring things out.