ILP "Participation" Lynda.Com

I wanted to pick something for my first ILP that I found interesting as well as useful for my future, so I chose a tutorial on Excel spreadsheets. It may not sound interesting to you, but for me, I’m intrigued on how to better my skills and learn something new. At first I thought this would be really boring, but it wasn't all that bad. It’s like taking an online course at home for free and a way shorter amount of time. Plus, no grades. I thought it was really cool how people can come together and use their knowledge to help others. 

 He begins with making us take a quiz on our previous knowledge and then goes into explaining shortcuts within Excel. After this he explained how to use Excel with your desktop, such as creating a new one or saving one to your desktop. Then he talks about collaborating with Excel; like how you can share your documents or even view and comment on others. Finally, he talks about charts in Excel and creating forms. For the charts, he just explains all the tools, then for creating the forms, he goes in depth on designing, building, and sharing your form. 

 I really loved this tutorial and this website in general. Thanks to FSU, we are able to use this site for free, which means I will be taking more courses in the future, maybe on something like animation. This tutorial helped me better my skills on Excel and will allow me to understand it more. And if I ever need help or forget, all I have to do is watch the tutorial again. I would definitely recommend this to my other classmates if they ever need help with a certain topic; these tutorials go into depth to make sure you finish with a better understanding than you started with.

Some notes I took: 
  • The person that is behind this tutorial has an Australian accent which makes this easier to watch/listen to
  • I made a 90% on the what do you know quiz before the tutorial and the only reason I got some questions right were good guesses.
  • He mentioned shortcuts such as making a mistake and how to fix it.
  • He explained how to use charts in Excel which is what I thought the only thing you could do in it.
  • Designing your form, which is the fun part!!

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