4th Summer Journal

Now that I have finished up the last of last week's
assignments I just started on this week's assignments.
Before I get started I want to say that the coolest
thing happened this 4th of July, my 72-years-old great
grandmother attended her 1st fireworks show this year
with my husband, my daughter, my mom and myself. All she kept saying was how much she enjoyed the show, she couldn't believe the number of people that came out to watch and that she wants to attend every year as long as the Lord allows her to live... nice huh?

Down to business, this week's assignments included:
revising my essential and foundation questions, reading
the search strategy articles, collaborating with our
classmates, 3 assignments evaluating WWW resources,
becoming involved in discuss on the mailing list(if we
want), working on our webliography, develop our project
outline and write our journal.

I don't have very many things to cover in this journal, since I haven't really started on the assignments that require my input yet. As I read this week's assignments list it seems that these assignments are helping the class focus more towards preparing for/working on our MRP. I made a statement during this week's MOO session about forming collaboration groups. I did not know that this was a assignment; I have found that sometimes I can get a better understanding about something when I see people face to face. Also, there was a question I asked about the MRP that may have been unclear, if you remember the question this is what I was trying to say, each view (person or group) we represent in our MRP will be expressing how our chosen topic effects that view and we also should demonstrate how that view would react to towards our chosen topic? Is this clear? Please be patient with me I have not worked on a project like this before. The next thing I want to say is that I have not been getting any mail from my "Pro" mailing list. I was really looking forward to conversing with people that have the same interests that I do. Would there be a list of mailing list concerning international communication on ASHA's website? Something else our assignments dealt with this week was determining if the resources we come across are valid. Last semester I had a discussion with Mrs. McNealy about this issue, she was said that I have to be careful about the information I get off of the Web, because I didn't know who put the information on the Web. She said that it was better to stick with scholastic sources, that way I would know that the information was valid. I have received both types of information off the web, and I haven't had a problem yet. I hope these three assignments will give me some simple tips on how to make sure the information I get is not junk.

This week I haven't learn a lot of new information,
because the assignments I have completed haven't required it yet. I can say that it was refreshing to find out that I was entering my topic correctly when using the search engines. Until next time....

P.S. How do I change my weblog's color and all that other neat stuff?

Lekei's Learning Highlights

When I experience the glowing light-bulb, I don't take
notes about it so it is really kind of hard to think of
a lot of occasions when this has happened. First I will
explain how I feel when I don't know something, it
irritates me and sometimes I even feel powerless. The
reason I say this is because sometimes I just can't stop
thinking about whatever it is I am trying to learn or
what I don't know my be effecting another part of my
life. However, I am one that will ask questions usually
until I am satisfied ( sometimes I talk to people that
have the ability to explain information on a more
rudimentary level). I am a firm believer in
understanding a concept 1st, then focusing on the
technicalities about the topic(s) later.

The story I want to talk about is my SAT scores, since
this is one the most recent situation that has come up.
Well I never really understood where my score was in
relation to others that have taken the test. I
believed that I did not do well, but this did not
concern me because I already knew what kind of student I
was and that no test could predict how well I would
perform in college--my work would, but I always
wondered. No counselor ever sat down with me in high
school and explained my results to me (they should
have), so as a young adult I did not know anything about
what the scores mailed to my house meant. Over the years
as I matured I always wanted to go back and go over my
scores to get a better understanding, but I never had
time. Then this summer came and I had to take a STAT
class (I was not looking forward to it),now I am so glad
that I did, because there is so much stuff that is
useful to me...who knew! Since this class I know about z-
scores, raw scores, standard deviations, percentiles and
the list could go on and on. I have good news, now I am
motivated to figuring out my SAT scores and I am happy
about doing so. Last Thursday I went to West Virginia
State College's admissions office and got a copy of my
test scores--I looked over them, but I haven't worked
the score out yet. I must say, it feels much better
being able to do it myself than having someone doing for
me. Now I have the *power* to take the
initiative!