Final Reflection

Digital Applications reflection Paper

Lucas Andre Bogdanski

            In my opinion, Digital Applications was a very important and helpful class for an incoming freshman in college to take. I taught me the importance of time management and persevering through problems as they arise. Anyone who knows me knows that I am terrible when it comes to computers and working with technology. All in all, I think my digital applications gave me more exposure to various technologies and how they are used for education, and eventually in the workplace. In my digital applications class we covered a variety of different topics such as Such as Microsoft office, PowerPoint, and making brochures. I think the two things that I struggled the most with in these class however was the assignment using my movie, and the assignment in which we had to create a spread sheet through excel.

            One thing that I really struggled with in this course was making my My Movie clip about my high school football career. One reason that this assignment was so difficult for me was that the computer software did not download to my PC properly. Another thing that I struggled with in this project was collecting all of my materials that I wanted to include in my My Movie. First I had to get all of the pictures that I could find from my high school football days and I had to put them all in one folder. Next I had to find a friend to interview me about my high school football days and we had to keep starting over because one of us would eventually mess up. After this, I had to copy a song from my iTunes playlist and I had to put it in the same folder as the rest of my football pictures. By this time I had done everything that I could do and I had to schedule three arc appointments to give me time to make sure my video was completely finished and look like a final product. Unfortunately, many of the tutors in the arc were just as unsure as I was when it comes to putting the movie together and it took a very long time to complete. I took a lot away from this assignment because when I was finally finished it felt like a huge weight had been lifted off of my shoulders. This really taught me the importance of time management as well, if I had waited until the last night to start this project there was no way I ever would have finished and my grade would have suffered. I am now comfortable working with My Movie, and I think if I am ever asked to create a video clip using this software, I think I will be successful and will be able to produce a high quality clip in a short amount of time.

            Another assignment that taught me allot throughout it competition was when we were asked to take a survey and record out results through a spreadsheet using Excel. I did my project on the best NBA players at their position. The easy part of this assignment was setting up sheet one. This is when you set up your data and number one through fifty going down vertically from the top of the chart. Entering the data was the easy part. Next I had to calculate Mean, Median, and mode of the columns for each question. After this I had to create a table for each question explaining the key and the results. It also showed the percentage of each answer to each question. Over all. Now this might sound easy to the person reading this, but to a person who is mentally handicapped with computers like I am, it was nearly impossible. I had to go to the arc two times for this assignment and they helped me use the excel software to calculate my results, set up my data tables, and create my graphs. This assignment also taught me the importance of time management. I have digital applications on Fridays so I planned to work on it a little each week night the week before it was due and my Wednesday night I had completed it. I also had never worked with excel before competing this spreadsheet. I am comfortable using excel after this project. I think if I am ever asked to make a spreadsheet in my future classes, or for future employers I can be confident that I know how to use that type of software and create a great product.
            As I said before, I think digital aps is a great class for incoming freshman to take. I shows us how to use many different programs that we will need to use in our classes in college as well as later in life. This coarse also teaches time management, and planning ahead. It also taught me to press through difficult tasks and just keeps working on them until they are finished. Thank you very much for helping me along through this class Professor Fleury-Lawson