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?