Mentor project

My mentoring project was very interesting. I enjoyed my experience with helping someone become more knowledgable about technology. I have posted my journal below.
Mentoring Journal
All training sessions were conducted on Tuesday’s from 3:05 to 4:05. They were all informal.
Week 1: Tuesday October 6, 2009- Today the individual wanted to know how to create a spread sheet with names on it in Excel. She was trying to create a sign in sheet for an organization that she was a part of. We also focused on how to format each cell correctly and how to get the final project to print with the grid lines showing.
Week 2: Tuesday October 13, 2009- Today we focused on how to create graphs in Excel. She wanted to graph her students TPRI results for the Beginning of the Year (BOY) and compare them with the upcoming Middle of the Year (MOY) results.
Week 3: Tuesday October 20, 2009- Today we created a homework grid for each child. For this she only needed minimal assistance. I refreshed her memory on how to bold all lines so that they would appear when the document is printed and assisted her with inputting names. We also talked about the next mentoring section. She wanted me to assist her in setting up her room so that all students would be able to view the projector screen for the future Power Point lessons.
Week 4: Tuesday October 27, 2009- For the next three weeks we are going to focus on Power Point. Today we went over the basics of Power Point such as how to select slide design and color. Also we focused on how to insert bullets and animation and how to delete or change the location of a slide.
Week 5: November 3, 2009- Today we created a Power Point over drawing conclusions for her second grade class. I assisted her in inserting pictures to help the students visualize the written text. I also refreshed her memory about how to add animation.
Week 6: November 10, 2009- With the last session she wanted to know how to make a podcast. With the winter months coming she figured she might get sick and having a podcast to fall back on would be a good idea. I assisted her with inserting the image of a worksheet on a Power Point slide and how to record her voice. She thought the idea with being able to record her voice on Power Point was really great and had no idea it could be done.