Reflection on technology in Media Writing

Last semester, I was in the Media Writing class taught by Kara Heirichs. I really enjoyed the class! However, for one assignment, we were required to work in groups to compare and contrasts various newspapers online. In doing this, we were expected to use power point to inform and highlight to the class what we had found from the different sites (using pictures, animations, etc...) As much as I am embarrassed to admit, I got anxious when I realized that power point was essential to complete the assignment. Lucky for me, one of the girls in my class was very knowledgeable about all the different tools of power point. Once the rest of us group members came up with the information to put on the power point, she whipped up that presentation in a matter of minutes! I was so impressed at how good she was with using the technology. Don't get me wrong, I know how to use computers, and I have done power point presentations. However, it hasn't been since sophmore year of high school that I created a power point presentation, and even then it was a very basic presentation. When watching my tech-savy classmate use all the amenities and short cuts correlating with the power point software, I was amazed at how much there is to know about technology and software, and how far behind I am on it!