I was at Hallmark today and I bought the neatest little book. It is called Words and Hopes of Courage from Maya Angelou. I found an awesome quote in there and I would like to share it with everyone:

Courage allows the successful person to fail - and to learn powerful lessons from the failure - so that in the end, it was not a failure at all.

I thought that was true, especially with me. Last week I had a hard time getting my Week 4 Online Journal and my Webliography posted due to thunderstorms and a down phone line. It was my fault that I waited until Sunday to do it, but who would've thought that something like that would happen! It taught me a big lesson to not wait until the last moment to do everything. I know that it sounded like a really bad excuse, just like the famous my dog ate my homework excuse, but it really did happen. Everytime I don't do as well as I expected on a test or an assignment, I always try to learn from my mistakes. I just thought that this quote really matched my past few weeks.

Anyway, back to this weeks assignments in 315, I had a little trouble figuring out what to do on the Project Prospectus. I really hadn't set down and thought about what I was going to do and I'm really not sure how this is going to be laid out. I really enjoyed doing the first evaluating resources assignment. The article about sign language with elephants was actually funny. I thought that it gave me a small break from all of the hard core thinking.

When I set down to do the Project Prospectus assignment, I wasn't sure what I wanted to do. I decided on an interview, an email exchange, two journals or a journal entry and a brochure (as my other genres). I can't decide which of the two I want to do right now. I don't think I'm still quite sure how the genres are supposed to be written. For example, on the interview, I figured that I would make it be between the clinician, the client and the client's family. Do I make up and write out a whole interview of what I think might be said?

I decided to possibly write two journals on the clinicians point of view. I had also thought about writing a brochure to give to the client's family in order to provide them with information on dysphagia and write a journal entry as the possible seventh genre. I figured that I could make it from the clinician's point of view and use it to bring all of the other genres together. The clinician could write about their feelings on the disorder and how they felt about the client with the disorder. I'm not sure if that's right but it's the first thing that I thought of. I think I may do it that way because I think that it makes sense.

I am so thankful that we are getting a catch up week. I'm writing my week 5 journal on my fourth week assignments. Crazy. This week has been interesting, learning more on how to evaluate a research article and actually thinking more about my particular topic and researching for it. Oh, one more thing that I'm excited about! I finally figured out how to get certain words to highlight on my Webliography. I followed the directions but I just didn't have the addresses together right. I swear, you have to get in every quotation mark or space before it's right and that goes with anything on the internet. Anyway, to be continued. . . Stay tuned for next weeks catastrophe! :-)