In our school district, all students need to have a computer class to graduate. Usually, kids take this as an elective in 9th grade. Natalie signed up for the class as a freshman but didn't end up getting in and hasn't had any room in her schedule for it since then, so she decided to get it over with by taking it during summer school. She did two summer classes last year (health and driver's ed) and they weren't too bad, but this Computer Applications class really tested her ability to patiently endure. The class met daily from 8am until 2:30pm for two weeks and they covered such exciting topics as:
how to write and send an email
how to bold, italicize, and underline
how to write a paper in Word
how to insert pictures into a document
how to format a table
how to create a spreadsheet and
how to properly cite a source
Now you may think this is good information to know, and it is, but the only person in the class who didn't already know how to do all this stuff was the instructor. In fact, when the teacher couldn't get the computer to do what she wanted, it was the students who would have to show her what to do, and of course, the teacher didn't like being the least knowledgeable in the class so she would blame her ineptitude on not having a "teacher's edition" of the textbook. Natalie sent me a audio clip of the teacher going off on a rant about "italic-sizing". Doesn't this sound like a fun way to spend 60 hours of your summer?
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