#thing 6

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I love thing 6!!

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So like, Thing Number Six for my 22 In ‘22 project was supposed to be the red cowl scarf, but I took a break from that today to make a hanging plant basked for Middlest Spawn:

So like…does that make this Thing Six since I finished it first? Or did I finish Thing Seven prior to Thing Six?

Discuss.

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Thing 6

Thing 6 for Rudai 23 is Reflective Practice.

 As a quick recap - Thing 3 looked at Image banks and the task was to download an image from one of image banks and then upload it to our blog, Thing 4 dealt with Communicating Visually and we had to download an image editing app and create something visual, and Thing 5 was on Video Presentations and we had to create either a video presentation or a recording.

I am not a particularly outgoing person and so some of the tasks (including setting up a blog!) have been quite daunting for me. However, my favourite Thing so far was Thing 3, learning about copyright and creative commons was very interesting and was certainly not something that I had thought about before. Exploring the different Image Banks was great as well and it really got me thinking about how images are used and how they can be used. I only wish I had more time to browse Pixabay! 

It was a pity that I had technical issues for Thing 4, I’m not sure what went wrong with my phone so there is not much that I could do differently but I think I was able to adjust very well to the issue and complete Thing 4 even if it was not what I had originally thought I would do. My one hesitation with Thing 4 is that PhotoFunia was geared more towards adding portraits as opposed to text to its images, which is why I only had one opinion (although the image and quote worked out very well despite this).

Thing 5 was the most difficult, not in terms of the actual application of the task, but the idea generation and what to do for it. I did struggle with what to do for the video presentation and looking back at the presentation I’m not entirely happy with it. If I could do it over I would add it more slides and information and get some more images from Pixabay to add to it. Despite this it did allow me to get some good hands-on practice with Powtoon and I will be much more confident when using Powtoon again and when creating my next presentation. 

The entire Rudai 23 process has been a bit intimidating for me, I am not an Informational Professional, I have only just finished my MA and I am hoping to apply to Library School in a few months; so everything that is covered in Rudai 23 is all new to me. Despite this, Rudai 23 is invaluable to me not only for introducing the different subjects and tools that I can use now and in the furure but also for the hands-on and practical experience it gives me. I am very much looking forward to continuing!

Edit: I had finished  writing this reflective piece and I was looking through Things 7 and 8, Thing 8 caught my eye and I decided to give it a go. I had never done info graphs before and I found it quite fun and interesting and I will definitely be using them and Piktochart again in the future!

Edit 2: I tried downloading Quik and Ripl again but it still didn’t work.

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Thing 6- Creating and Editing Docs

Alright!  So I’ve been working on this one for a few weeks.  Finding the time to write up a narrative during work has been tricky!  I will upload the actual story here after my shift (my phone’s in the circ workroom at the moment!), but I wanted to at least update with my feedback about using Microsoft Word on my phone as a medium to create and edit documents.

So here we go!

Downloading and opening the Microsoft Word application was very straightforward.  The program functions in the same way as on a PC, but has been down-scaled to fit a mobile view.  Overall, the adjustment doesn’t affect things too badly, though I’d be lying if I didn’t say that writing for any length of time using my cell’s keyboard/screen size proves to be fairly trying (and my phone is a behemoth).

Saving the documents was also straightforward and I was able to access the file easily as I resumed work on my writing.  I did find that jumping around in a document, or trying to navigate to a specific point between letters, words, etc to make edits could be incredibly hit or miss.  Oftentimes, because of the lack of precision the app and mobile screen have, I’d have to delete an entire word that had a single error in it rather than spend far too many seconds trying to coax the marker to the right spot. 

I was also vaguely annoyed because my phone has a terrible autocorrect database and Word defaulted to that function rather than offering the underline/available corrections option that the PC version has.  The underline would still show up if I insisted on a specific word and Word believed that to be wrong, but it seemed that if the phone database didn’t recognize it, that was what determined the validity rather than Word’s personal dictionary.  This was particularly annoying when my phone would autocorrect a word horribly and I’d spend sometimes upward of a minute fighting the wordbank just to get Word to accept what I wanted and not be misled by my phone’s pathetically small word-recognition.

Honestly, though, most of my complaints come back to the fact that I simply prefer typing on a keyboard and looking at a PC screen when writing.  I write for my own enjoyment fairly often and find that I work best creatively on a laptop or PC.  Still, for sudden bouts of inspiration, or if I need to jot something down while I’m out and about, I found the Word program satisfactory.  I’ll be keeping this on my phone just in case!  =)

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Thing 6

I decided to try QuickOffice for this thing. I wasn't expecting to like it, but I really did. I can't see writing an entire document on it, but the ability to edit a bit, track changes, and spell check is nice. And it interfaces with my Google Drive app, which I already had installed. I think I'll keep this one and see if I use it. I just might!

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Things that make me smile -- Thing #6

getting rid of junk from my room