2nd Summer Journal

I must say that last night I was in tears, because all
of my hard word vanished. I had already completed this assignment, then I went to paste it to my blog--and whoop there it went. I tried deseparetly to find it, but my search was truly in vain. Well, may objectives this week were to complete all of the assignment and not panic if something technically tragic happened. I must say I was defeated, because I didn't meet either of my goals--but I am a trooper that's going to keep moving forward! Let's see, the assignments this week included: reading several Internet focused articles, subsribing and unsubscribing to a mailing list, getting familiar with the WWW and using bookmarks, finding someone we know on the web, responding to given prompts about our history, our values, our learning future and
we were to compose an essential question.

First I want to comment on the MOO class-- it was fab! I liked the discussion about society's perception of Speech Pathologist/Speech Therapist and how that SLPs are sometimes miss portrayed, are limited in what type of work performed and are limited to a few locations of employment. All of this caused me think about a project that I might do, if I have to do something for statistics class. I was thinking of doing a survey at local grocery store(s) or a busy shop--ya know, just to get an idea of what everyday people think SLPs are and what SLPs do. I
would like to get some ideas on how to improve public awareness. The next thing I wanted to say is that the virtual lab was really neat, I know it had to take a lot of time to create something so involved-- shoot it takes me hours just to write a paper(giggling). Job well done Mrs. Mccomas...and the pace of the tour really kept me on my toes! Is the lab open to the public? Something similar to the lab could be used to recruit people in to the fields of Speech Path. or Audiology--ya think so? I want to end this section by saying it is important to inform people about what SLPs do and are. I find myself in stores talking to people (because I rarely meet strangers) about this field, and what I have found is that people make a better connection if I use the term Speech Therapist, I try to expand their knowledge of the field in a couple of minutes. I think some dialogue is better than none. Next on the agenda assignment 1.2.1. reading these articles really cleared up some things for me. I needed to read one of them about emailing addresses last week, when I forgot which address I was supposed to use for emailing. I hadn't emailed in awhile so it slipped my mind. O.K.....I 'll tell you what happened, well I finished doing an assignment and for some reason I had to email Mrs. Mccomas but I couldn't remember whether the (what I now know) URL was the email address or if the email address was. So I decided to use the URL...heck it was longer, needless to say I was informed that the address did not exist, so I tried the other address and it worked. That was one of those moments--ya'll know what I'm talking about--the kind similar when you forget for no apparent reason (other than a brain lapse) how to spell "who" --I know somebody other than myself has been there (laughing). Well after this class it will be in my brain for eternity. Now moving forward this is the last assignment I want to make comment(s) about it's the finding people assignment, I really am excited about doing this one. Because I plan to look-up and write my fifth grade teacher (Mrs. Gill in Roanoke , Va.). She is a great lady, one that has contributed in a special way to my educational success. I believe a good teacher
makes a lasting impression on the development of his/her students. Mrs. Gills encouraged me to do better, and being in her class created a turning point in my life. I'mgoing to tell her thanks for her sincere concern for my improvement. Her actions were not forced, but they were from the heart and that is why I appreciate her today.

Wow this class is really turning out to be pretty good. There is a lot of work, but there is a lot to learn. I used the web to search for things many times before this class, but I didn't know that there was netiquette, a logic to the way an email address is written or I did not understand how computers communicated with each other. Now I have a
mental picture of what is going on when I am surfing the net or emailing. As I use the resources available on the web, the web is becoming less mysterious to me. I think someone that is a true learner is not selfish with the knowledge that he/she has obtained. I spoke to someone from my church today and he made the statement that he did not know anything about computers. I think I will offer to teach him some of the things we are learning in
this class. If he wants to learn we can become
information literate together!