Computer Class

So in school the computer teacher (She like in her 50s)was teaching power points. She wanted us to put really cheesyGif animations and overuse transition and text entrance in it. I decided to make mine clean and she gave me an F on it.

Now for the point do you think Older people who haven't worked in a computer based job should be allowed to teach computers? I easily know more than my computer teacher (She thinks the "Blinking Line" in word is called the cursor, and the actual cursor is just a pointer arrow.) So what do you think about it?

I know how you feel. i was doing it last year and they made you do so much unnessecary things when making powerpoints, word documents etc. i just dropped it cause it was annoying me. But the way i look at it, they need to test you know how to use all the stuff.. even if you will never use it or it makes it look cheesy.

How do you know what her computer background is? I'm sure she knows what she's talking about if she's teaching it. However, I also knew more than my teacher but most kids don't I guess.

I don't think someone being older automatically eliminates them from teaching technology. However, your specific teacher is not teaching PowerPoint etiquette very well.spazzx625

Maybe she just wanted you to know how to use the transitions and whatnot...if the project stated "use transitions and animations", would it really have been so hard to use them? :?JML897

[QUOTE="JML897"]Maybe she just wanted you to know how to use the transitions and whatnot...if the project stated "use transitions and animations", would it really have been so hard to use them? :?CorTilt

Oh, so she wanted you to use the really obnoxious ones...well I don't have anything to say to that. :?

[QUOTE="spazzx625"]I don't think someone being older automatically eliminates them from teaching technology. However, your specific teacher is not teaching PowerPoint etiquette very well.CorTilt

So anyway, the bottom line is, your teacher asked the class to do a specific thing on the PP project. You decided not to do so and got an F, correct? I'm not seeing the problem here. :|

How do you know what her computer background is? I'm sure she knows what she's talking about if she's teaching it. However, I also knew more than my teacher but most kids don't I guess.

Pirate700

So anyway, the bottom line is, your teacher asked the class to do a specific thing on the PP project. You decided not to do so and got an F, correct? I'm not seeing the problem here. :|Pirate700

I did use them. But the types she wantedme to use are like the news flash transition and the spin zoom one text entrance.

How do you know what her computer background is? I'm sure she knows what she's talking about if she's teaching it. However, I also knew more than my teacher but most kids don't I guess.

So anyway, the bottom line is, your teacher asked the class to do a specific thing on the PP project. You decided not to do so and got an F, correct? I'm not seeing the problem here. :|

Pirate700

I was thinking the same thing. She probably just wanted to make sure he knew all the features, even if those features are stupid and annoying.

I know what you mean but that's IT not computing which is much worse. One of my IT teachers didn't know how to turn the age in publisher. Computing teachers are better as they tend to generally like technology and so keep atlesast somewhat up to date though mine didn't know you could get memory sticks bigger than a DVD. Oh and you IT teacher was right, a cursor is the general name for a pointer, the cursor arrows take they're name form a word processor cursor as they were designed to move it around the document.markop2003

[QUOTE="markop2003"]I know what you mean but that's IT not computing which is much worse. One of my IT teachers didn't know how to turn the age in publisher. Computing teachers are better as they tend to generally like technology and so keep atlesast somewhat up to date though mine didn't know you could get memory sticks bigger than a DVD. Oh and you IT teacher was right, a cursor is the general name for a pointer, the cursor arrows take they're name form a word processor cursor as they were designed to move it around the document.CorTilt

What does she think the cursor is then?

[QUOTE="markop2003"]I know what you mean but that's IT not computing which is much worse. One of my IT teachers didn't know how to turn the age in publisher. Computing teachers are better as they tend to generally like technology and so keep atlesast somewhat up to date though mine didn't know you could get memory sticks bigger than a DVD. Oh and you IT teacher was right, a cursor is the general name for a pointer, the cursor arrows take they're name form a word processor cursor as they were designed to move it around the document.CorTilt

[QUOTE="CorTilt"][QUOTE="markop2003"]I know what you mean but that's IT not computing which is much worse. One of my IT teachers didn't know how to turn the age in publisher. Computing teachers are better as they tend to generally like technology and so keep atlesast somewhat up to date though mine didn't know you could get memory sticks bigger than a DVD. Oh and you IT teacher was right, a cursor is the general name for a pointer, the cursor arrows take they're name form a word processor cursor as they were designed to move it around the document.markop2003