6th Summer Journal

I’m exhausted, this week has been rough and rugged, from doctor appointments to makeup quizzes, I have heard and seen it all. I must say next week is looking much brighter, since my STATS class will be over. I like the class and the professor, but I need a break!!! I told someone that I was going to summer school all summer long, they said, “you are a glutton for punishment…” I later found out in my STATS class that summer school students are usually motivated and academically dedicated—this was encouraging to know. I have to remember that this is the day that the Lord has made…there are no bad days, just that some days are more difficult than others (smiling).

The Assignment lineup this week isn’t enormous in number, but the magnitude of time and work put into them is. Assignments included: Library Search, Checking on our “pro” mailing lists, 2 MRP: Genre Drafts, Read an article and create a prompt and the Online Journal. I had planned on completing these earlier in the week, but it didn’t happen.

The first thing I want to discuss is my mailing list. Well I have already established that my old one was a dud, so this week I went to that address with all of the discussion groups listed, I ended up subscribing to four new ones. One of them is a “live one”, man those people email like crazy. I likethe fact that out of all the emails I have read a lot of the writers refer to some type of reference source when justifying their views. Maybe I’ll learn the language and start getting into the discussion (I don’t know). The second thing I want to talk about is the time I had trying to get these MRP Genres done. I thought that I would do a newsletter and a observation report. I started with the observation report, I went the address I was given, but I could not get in to the files--I didn't know the password, so I just kept typing stuff in. Finally cd315 worked, but not everytime...beats me, I have no idea why this was the case. Oh well any, I got to the list of forms and printed up two different ones, come to find out I don't know how to do observations of a client that has language problems concerning pragmatics, that are not medical or developmental. So I called a local hosptial to speak with an on staff SLP. Peter something said that is type of thing is not done around this area very much, in fact he said that he did not know of any pragmatic tests based on cultural differences. So the observation reports went out the window for now( I'll try to find something on the web). My second Genre adventure involved the newsletter and spending all night trying to perfect those little text boxes, only to have everything turn out ugly. I have found out that either I am not copying the newsletter template to word correctly or that when a template is copied to word it loses quality. I ended up having to start from scratch in word and make up my own template for a newletter....I must say it isn't as pretty as my first one (but it work for now).

Well the things I learned this week are how to use a lot of accessories in my computer programs, things I would have not considered doing if I wasn't doing this project. And I know now how to get creative pieces of material from my computer to my weblog. Let's see what happens next week..

LOL,

Lekei