JOURNAL REFLECTION: WEEK 6

WEEK 6: 30/03/2013

This was the sixth lecture for this course. Today was my presentation day on Microsoft Publisher. Nowadays, teachers are using different and interesting methods in approaching students.  Microsoft Publisher is software that can be used in creating flyers, calendars, brochures, posters and many more which can be used in schools to convey information regarding workshops, events, meetings and other important matters related to the schools.

Basically , Microsoft Publisher provides templates for the flyers , calendars and many more which makes us easy to prepare them. With the template provided, we just have to alter the font, colour, cliparts or images according to our preference.  Below is the flyer that I have created to promote my blog.

After learning Microsoft Publisher, we learned  ChemSketch. This is one of  the software that  is really beneficial and significant in chemistry education. There are few essential things that can be done by using this software such as:

• Drawing chemical structure in two or three dimensional. We are able to view the structure from different angle
• We are able to draw  laboratory equipment  and prepare diagrams for experiments.
• We are able to name the structures based on the molecule drawings.

During this lesson, there are few things we learned in ChemSketch:

• ·         Drawing simple molecules, naming organic structure, 3D view and Lewis structure.
• ·         Drawing chemical formulas, ions and chemical equations.
• ·         Inserting headers and footers, forming lab manual using lab kits and converting it to PDF.
• ·   Drawing endothermic and exothermic reaction diagram, drawing 3D orbitals and drawing hybrid orbitals.

There was some installation error of the software which made me difficult to utilize all the features. I  was required to re install the software. Overall , this was a great lesson as I was introduced softwares that will definitely  be useful in my education career in the future.