My Live Chat Presentation

I was present for both days of the presentations. I thought I would get a better feel for the kind of subjects people were researching. There was such a wide range of topics, I don't think I could pick a favorite. I found the topic about the 2-3 zone defense interesting. I feel like the researcher will find a lot of videos to use in his website to enhance it. It was a fun topic and choosing something of interest to him that is fun will definately prove beneficial in the long run. I also found the webpage about the HPV virus of particular interest. When I have time, I'm actually going to go back and look at it in depth for informational purposes. My presentation, I thought went fairly well. Despite the fact that I couldn't make my whole screen show the first time, my information was described well and I'm hoping people will recognize the fact that I tried to organize my topics based on the steps in the process. I am definately feeling a twinge of anxiousness as the class goes on because I can tell our assignments will get more difficult. I hope I will be up for the challenge. All in all, the topics I saw were very interesting and I am looking forward to seeing everyone's final product.

Assignment V

Putting this webpage together was exciting for me. I hope that as the class goes on, I don't lose my enthusiam. My links I chose to display were all pretty much informational. I managed to find a few sites that provided activities for the students to use to study. I think I may need to go in the direction of finding activities; case studies maybe that will allow students the chance to practice implementing the Nursing Process. I hope my final product will be very interactive and engaging for them. I definately need to reread the activity involving siting my references. I didn't get a great grade on it and it has really put a hit on my momentum. I guess that is to be expected. My problem I believe has to do with recognizing journal articles. My references were off because I cited them as references instead of journals. I will definately invest in an APA book in the next few days. I can't let that keep me from my A!

Assignment IV

Wow!!! This assignment is making me take a second look at my original topic. When I was trying to decide on a topic, I had a list of 3 possible things to research. Now I am running into resources that don't give me a lot of information on my topic of choice. I'm getting nervous. My original thought was to use a topic that would be beneficial to the College of Nursing. I took this assignment and used one of my secondary choices about teaching Pre-schoolers to read. This topic gave me a lot of resources and journal articles. I found myself second guessing my original choice. When I used GEM, I found quite a few resources to teach preschoolers to read and GALILEO proved to have some interesting articles as well. I have actually printed out the GEM resources to use with my 4 yr. old. Hopefully, as the class progresses, I will be able to bring it together with my original topic.

Assignment III

This assignment was a little more challenging for me as I have never used many of the resources talked about here. I actually did a lot more work reading the material I found to see if related to my topic. I sifted through hours and hours of information and I think I'm getting information overload. Many of the times I had to step away from the computer and take a break because it was all starting to look a like. I don't want to have a lot of the same things repeated and I'm finding that a lot of what I am getting is repetitive. Well I guess that would be true if I'm searching the same topic!!! LOL I'll turn this discussion in later today.

In our live chat last Sunday, my classmates gave me some good resources to check into. I am anxious to see how their projects unfold because they have both chosen very interesting topics.