Here we are at week 7, feeling better with no where to go. I have been stuck at the library for the better part of the week due to the uncertainty of the French university system. The local students have been on strike for four weeks now (and yes all the Americans are still working, go figure) with little end in sight. It must be nice to just take four weeks off of class (professors too) after just two days of class following an extended Christmas break. In the past three months there has only been two or three days of solid class as scheduled. These people have been on vacation since Turkey Day. What gets me is that these students feel oppressed by their government. Okay let's be objective by creating a plus and minus list of being a French national. Minus: you might have to pay the 19 percent tax on your house and food. Plus: free education through graduate school, maximum 35 hour work week, salaried positions with free health care for anyone with a high school degree, monthly housing stipend, lunch allowance, you live in France, you can go to Paris and London every weekend, the list goes on. My rant is over; here's what I did this week:
First I played with the Gimp software for a while and did the four parts of the assignment with the text and graphics. Then I played with the Gimp software a little more and realized that there is much more to be done in other classes. After I had a run-in with the OpenOffice suite and an Excel assignment in CECS 5010, I chose to download the Office 2007 software against my will. Now, I'm going to attempt the Web 2.0 activity all the while the French students sit and watch me type away with their government cigarettes a blazing and their oppressed butts a showing.
Cheers,
Mark
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5010 and OpenOffice!!! Wow, what was the excel assignment? We need to modify it, alternate it or get rid of it. Hind sight! ha! thanks for the smiles on this post
ReplyDeleteMrs. Dolliver has done more than her share of adjusting to the different software systems of the students in 5010 (she probably needs a raise). I was just trying to link an Excel spreadsheet into a OoBase (apparently this is next to impossible). This is just more of me doing things the hard way. For some reason my brain chooses to wrap the oranges in banana peels and then wonders why it never comes out correct.
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