Escape the Ordinary....

Wrapping up this week officially signals the halfway point in the semester. It has gone by so quickly yet seems like this semester is dragging on. Usually at this point in the semester my grades are a little more on sturdy ground. I will have to work my butt off the next several weeks to get them back to where I’m comfortable with them. I was finally able to catch back up in this class and for the most part, have been able to stay on top of the assignments this week. I say this at 11:30pm on Sunday night! However, I did have better time management this week and knew that I had a lot going on and to start early. I was able to knock out half of the assignments in one morning which freed up time to work on other assignments during the week. I had a work conference in Tulsa on Tuesday, a full day at work and school Wednesday, parent teacher conference Thursday, and two birthday parties to attend this weekend. I’m exhausted and ready to find time to sleep! In this class, I hav...

Well.....this might be a hard post to come to terms with. Thus far, I've only completed about 4 weeks worth of work. So needless to say, I'm pretty far behind. According to the progress chart, I need 235 points in the class so far to get an A....I have 134.....I need to work my butt off to catch up to where I need to be. I have found that if I work on this class a little each day, it's not quite as overwhelming. And now that I'm caught up and trying to get a little ahead, it'll be easier to catch back up and doing a lot of the extra credit to make up the missing points I had for those weeks I didn't do anything. I'm getting ahead today, Monday the 7th, in hopes that the rest of my week can be spent doing extra credit and moving on to week 9. I have days off coming up and I will spend all 6 of them investing the majority of my time in this class. Looking back, I think my biggest mistake was time management...and maybe signing up for too many classes! I do...

This assignment is reviewing feedback both giving and receiving: 1. Feedback In  - I will say the most useful feedback I have received so far is suggestions on how to improve things. Or the feedback as to how the reader felt or questions they had. Even though some people see these as negative, I see them as constructive. Especially since I've decided to go with the portfolio version, it's nice to have comments that I can use to work on my project. Don't get me wrong, I appreciate the nice comments and praise, but those just boost my ego. I do also appreciate them because a few of them have told me what they specifically liked about a particular story. This is helpful because then I can use that information to either repeat it in another story, or leave it alone in the story that I'm tweaking to make better. 2. Feedback Out  - I have found the easiest way for me to provide feedback is to take notes as I go along. This way I can focus on specific parts of the story in...

This week we were asked to review and re-read a lot of our work in this class. The first part of the assignment was to review our online platforms. For the blogger page, I did adjust some of the arrangements for the blog itself. I took the search off the top of the page and moved it to the sidebar on the left side of the page. There wasn't much there and it looked blank. I also didn't want the search bar to distract from the theme I chose and the pattern that shows up in the banner. I also took off a few things that I thought were unnecessary and distracted from my page. For the Googles Sites page, I'm pretty dang happy with this page. I think that the style of the page I have created really portrays the feel I want to establish. I want the readers to be drawn in by not only the stories, but get a good feel of what to expect when they look at the pictures. The opening page has a beautiful picture of an elephant Image Source : Ganesha Hindu God I think this image i...