I have
learnt the usage of Microsoft Word and had been using it for almost a decade
now. Until now, I felt comfortable in using it with ease. Even while setting
the questions, I could do independently and I thought I have sound knowledge of
it.
Yet,
once again, the facts of life and learning, “Learning never stops and
there is new learning for every endeavour and experience that we make,”
struck me. When we were given the MS word assignment where we had to carry out
lots of font activities, paragraph exercises, inserting and grouping shapes,
equations, designing certificates and cards, I gained a whole set of new ideas
and skills.
Mail
merging was one exercise where I struggled and had consulted lots of my DE
colleagues and colleagues in my school. Finally, I have learned how to merge
the mails. I think it can be of great use especially when we need to send the
same mail to many recipients. Being a teacher, we may have very rare
opportunities to use this except when we write to the parents of our students
but still then learning won't harm. We can share this piece of information with
families and colleagues who need to use them on daily basis.
While
equation and symbol exercises were of great help for mathematics, paragraph and
font activities were helpful for all of us. For a primary teacher like me,
shape activity proved very handy where we can give various outlooks using
variety of features such as 3D...
Of all
the activities, I enjoyed designing the cards and certificates. I have learned
a bit in designing them with MS publisher but doing it with MS word was fun
though challenging. I hope to use them regularly in future.
From
this experience and task, I did realize that no matter how familiar we are with
the content, there is always a new insight to be gained, skill to be acquired
and wisdom to be accumulated.
Therefore,
I urge all the readers to give a go whenever opportunity knocks at your door,
whether the subject matter is old or new for I assure you that a box of wisdom
and knowledge awaits you.
2 comments:
That's a nice piece of information. I too agree with what you said.
Tashi you are right. We learnt unlimited new skills in the process of doing variety of tasks. As you say the learning never stops.
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