Friday , June 21
Week 2: It has been a fairly busy CD week…………

Well I can’t believe that week 2 is almost over. This week has been a fairly busy CD week. For this week we were assigned a lot of reading and writing projects. My objectives for this week were to try and get all the assignments for Week 2 done before Monday. I like to get as many as I can completed before we get the weekly assignments. I am just afraid as time goes by the assignments will be more in depth and take longer to complete so I do not want to get too far behind. I will admit it is getting a little hard trying to juggle this class and my other class. However, for right now I am just managing my time between this class and my other.

For this week we were assigned to read basic information about using the internet. This included learning about email; how to use it, send it, and properly communicate by e-mails (short paragraphs, using the correct language, gestures, etc.), how to understand e-mail addresses, learning about mailing lists , acronyms that are used in e-mails, and learning about the world wide web. Also, we were to subscribe and unsubscribe to a mailing list. Then with the information that we have learned from the articles that we were assigned we were to use the web to help us locate someone that we know. Then we were assigned several assignments that would eventually help us with our research project. This included to write about why we wanted to become a speech pathologist, the values that were expressed about education, how will continue to use research in our lives, also write about what questions and interests we have in this field/profession.

To do these assignments I usually follow them in order. Although it is very tempting to go and choose the easiest assignments and do them first. If, I did them this way it would be way to confusing for me. Also, what I may think is easy may actually turn out to be one of the hardest things to complete. In order to help me complete these assignments it was easier to print the material off first and then read it that way. It is too hard for me to read articles off the screen. Anyways, I print the material off and since most of the assignments are fairly long I usually highlight and take notes of the key points. This way when it comes to doing the assignment it would be easier for me to do. From reading the assigned articles I was able to learn a lot of interesting information about computers that I did not know before. I also had never been successful at searching for people. I was able to find my brother, my two Aunts, and several teachers from high school. I think already I am beginning to be more skilled at using the computers. However, for the most part I was able to complete these assignments without any trouble. The assignment that gave me the most trouble was subscribing and unsubscribing from the mailing list. When I went to subscribe it came back with a message saying that there was no mailing list for want I had typed in. Well, I yelled at the computer, like that did me any good. I kept yelling at it asking why won’t you do what I asked. I did what the directions said. Then when I looked at what I did, it would help if I could learn how to spell subscribe. I also when I went to unsubscribe I noticed that in order for it too work I had to follow exactly how it was written. For ex. to unsubscribe I had to type Cd 315-test list end, in all capital letters in order to get to unsubscribe from the mailing list. I also had a little trouble posting my Personal History assignment, for some reason I thought the place your response text here was to comment on the one that was posted before. Then I realized that it did not get posted. Then I got help and realized my mistake and fixed it quickly. The other assignments were just reflecting on why I wanted to become a speech pathologist, which I will never for get why I wanted to change my major. I am really glad that I picked this major because after I took the first CD class I was hooked and did not want to change my major. Next I wrote about the education values expressed in my home, which sometimes you forget because it seems that now you are more independent and my mom is just happy that I have made it this far and have done well in school. As for the research assignment it had connected with the previous assignment, Information Literacy, which was just to understand that in order to expand my knowledge I will have to use all the resources available in order to be successful in my profession and outside of my profession. The assignment that I had not completed yet is the essential question assignment.

Also, I have learned a lot from our class meeting at the “moo”. It was very interesting to go in and see how an Internet class works. At first, I did not think that I would be able to learn if I had to do other communications disorders class on the computer, for example, CD 460. It just seems that it would be a little hard to understand and do everything. However, from seeing how you (Mrs. McComas) set the class up was very interesting and I think that I could learn this way. It was neat to see how case histories were developed on the web. It was more interesting to see how you could do hearing screenings on the web. The idea of having an Internet class is really neat. In addition to this, we got in groups and discussed what we think the general population thinks about communication disorders. At first, our group was having trouble coming up with this answer. We just thought that communication disorders were really not discussed a lot in the general public. That was until Mrs. McComas told us to think about movies. Then we were able to come up with how communication disorders were portrayed in movies and commercials. Then from group 1 and 2, I was able to learn a lot of different ideas about what the public thinks about communication disorders.

In general, this class is really opening up my eyes to why it is so important to be able to use the computer and what valuable information one can gain by using the computer. Last week I was really nervous about this class because I am not very good with computers. This week I am a little bit more relaxed and beginning to be a little confident in my computer skills.

Questions: As of right now I do not have any questions.