I’m finishing up the assignments for week 3. I’ve been out of town most of the week and I’m trying to get back in the swing of things, so to speak. Although I did complete some assignments while out of town.
I found most of the assignments from week 3 fun. I enjoyed doing the VARK. I’ve always known I am a multimodal learner, I just didn’t know the term.
The “Learning Highlights” assignment made me realize how little of my learning experiences I can’t remember. This concerns me. Does this mean I didn’t learn as much as I should have or that my experiences were just not outstanding? This assignment also made me realize how much I want to learn. As I’ve mentioned, I’ve always struggled with math. Although my math requirements are full filled I would still like to take some courses to learn more math skills and enhance my old ones.
For some reason the subscribing assignments are giving me fits. Last week I couldn’t get unsubscribed, this week I can’t get subscribed. I don’t know what I am doing wrong, hopefully Mrs. McComas will.
After completing assignment 1.3.3: topic search, I am a little concerned. I didn’t get a lot of results when I tried to link language acquisition and Down’s Syndrome. This has me wondering if I should form a new question?

Whoo! The webliography was the hardest thing I have ever done! I had to call Jennifer about a million times. She was a big help. But, as you can tell my webliography is still messed up. I don't know why part of it turned out the way I wanted it to and the other parts did not. Everybody else's looks really great! But mine is really rough.
On a lighter note, the other assignments do not look nearly as difficult. I have discovered that if I follow the instructions some of the technical assignments are pretty easy. Except for the webliography, all the other assignements from week two were fairly easy.
All those questions!! I had to think alot! But, answering those questions gave me some ideas on how to enhance my learning. I did not have the answers to the questions off of the top of my head, I had to talk myself through them. Does anybody do this?
I have a confession to make. I am a procrastinator!!. I noticed in the first week some people struggled with disiplining themselves into sitting down and working. I'm still struggling with this.
I don't know how many times a day I sit down to start working and I get interrupted. With two babies I get interupted alot. After so many interupptions, I just give up. I never intend to wait until the last minute, but it seems no matter what I do it still works out this way. Any suggestions?

Well, I made it to class on Tuesday and I had a blast! I never realized computers could be so much fun. Since I made it to class and participated with a minimal amount of trouble I’m starting to feel a wee bit confident when I sit down at my computer.
The assignments this week are similar to last but more complicated. Several of the assignments I feel are designed to teach us how to maneuver easily around the web and email. The rest of the assignments are read, read, read. Each assignment is building on the previous one. Although Mrs. McComas told us this I can now see it happening.
When I saw the technical assignments, 1.2.2-1.2.6 all I felt was sheer terror. Instead of panicking I read the instructions several times and am taking my time with these assignments. I have discovered that when I try to jump in headfirst I mess up and end up emailing Mrs. McComas several times. I try to complete the assignments before I understand the instructions. Everything is new, so it takes some time for me. I think that for these assignments the best way for me to do them is slow and easy.
On the other hand assignments 1.2.7-1.2.9 are causing some frustration. I have to think, think and think some more. I have to dig out all that personal stuff. I feel exposed. It’s hard to keep your feelings and reasons for choosing a career at the surface when you have several things going on at once. I get caught up in the everyday excitements and responsibilities of taking care of a family and a home and sometimes I lose track of me. I know all those reasons and feelings are still there, though. Tuesday’s class helped resurface all that personal stuff. These assignments would be much harder if I had not already been thinking since Tuesday.
I still feel waaaay out of my league in this class. I sometimes wonder what all this computer stuff has to do with being a speech pathologist. But, I think I know. It will make me more independent as a learner and I believe to be a successful therapist you have to be willing to learn things on your own not just when you have to in order to complete the assignments. I also think a therapist needs to be independent. I’m sure therapists all over have had to step out on their own and try something new for the sake of their clients. I know this is the BIG picture, but this class is so demanding and terrifying I have to think about the BIG picture to get the guts to continue.
I still have trouble with posting all of this, but not technical trouble. I can’t see the expressions on peoples faces when they read this, if they read it. I don’t know what people are thinking about me and that at the age of 24 still bothers me sometimes.