Electives

This year at Ridgefield High School I took two electives; they were Photography I and Microsoft Office I. During these courses I learned a lot, my work that I have done are shown below. The first elective was Photography and I have to say that it was one of the highlights of my year. Everything about that class was amazing, the people, the teacher, and the vibe of the room. Throughout my time in the class I put together a final PowerPoint that highlights my work. Below is a link so you can view the PowerPoint and see my work.

After Photography I went to Microsoft Office. It was a lot different than Photo but I’ve learned so many new things, so many new skills that I didn’t have before.

My first project is the Baby Names project because it taught you how to make a table, fill it and merge cells. We made a chart of the most popular boys and girl’s baby names. Making tables is a really important skill to have because in other classes you have to be able to present data through charts. That is why this project was so useful. The next project that gave me more skills is the envelope project. We previously wrote a letter to our favorite celebrity then we constructed an envelope. Now I know how to create an envelope so I can send a letter. It’s important to be able to send letters because in life you send a lot of letters. This project wasn’t hard but it definitely wasn’t easy, but now I know exactly how to make an envelope. We did a project that taught us how to hyperlink things into a word document. You can hyperlink not only websites but also other word documents. This skill is very important and definitely useful because well I happen to be using it right now. We did a project where we hyperlinked college websites onto a word document. It was a much needed lesson because now all the kids in my class can hyperlink. Next we moved on to Microsoft PowerPoint. In PowerPoint I made tons of projects. My favorite one though is when we got to choose which movie was going to win an Academy Award. While I was constructing this PowerPoint I included many things to enhance it's style by formatting the colors to match and using transitions. I modified my text to make the project flow. The use of pictures is seen throughout this presentation so that people want to come see the movie, Country Strong. This PowerPoint would definitely make people vote for and watch Country Strong.

This project is called “Favorite Artist” this is one of my favorites because it was the most interesting to do and I had a lot of fun making it. This presentation appeals to most people because it has a great color, wonderful pictures and even a video of Taylor Swift singing. I also learned new techniques. For example I learned how to embed a video and use action buttons. Now my video is more interesting and runs more smoothly.

The next project I did was called Getting Involved in Your School. This was one of my favorites because I have a strong passion for lacrosse and I would love to share that opinion with everyone else. In this project I learned how to use slide transitions, now my presentations flow together. Using slide transitions is very important because you want it to look organized and professional, slide transitions help you accomplish that. Throughout the course, Microsoft Office I, I have learned new basic skills I have never even knew existed. My ability to use Microsoft Office Word and PowerPoint has definitely increased by a long shot. I am so happy I chose to take this class because now I have become faster and better typing. Also my PowerPoint making skills have definitely improved, now instead of typing a large amount of information into the slide I use the 7x7 rule, 7 words and 7 lines. I am very thankful for this class