This has been a very stressful week!! I was really worried about these genres that we had to do, turns out they were a bit easier that I expected them to be. I originally intended to do my powerpoint presentation but I am having problems with getting the pictures I want on it. Plus I do not really know how to post it online so I figured I would continue putting it together and try to turn it in when I have more time to work out the kinks. It was very helpful to evaluate others work and to see there ideas on things and how they are doing. It was also helpful to make me think about voice and audience, I kind of lose those thought when I am composing my genre. I still need to do the mailing list assignment but this got me thinking about my list. I decided I would like to find a different list to join in addition to the dysphagia one. It really isn’t what I am looking for. As I am getting deeper into this project I like swallowing more and more. There are a lot of things that I really didn’t think about until now. Like when I wrote the patients voice journal I thought, you know this really happens. We, as SLP’s and the others involved try to keep them eating no matter what, we have to keep them off of feeding tubes. But what about the patients that this is not a neurological issue, their thought processes are fine, it is just the swallowing process as a motor movement, think how their lives are effected, think about how much of our time is spent “at the table”. We meet for lunch, have dinner with family, the two biggest holidays are pretty much spent around the table eating. They are really missing out on a lot by having a dysphagia. I really never though about it in this light until this past week. This has been a very enlightening week for me in terms of where I want this to go, my future genres, and what kind of work I want to do.

This week has been a very busy week for me. Fortunately I have had all day today (sat.) to myself to catch up on homework. I feel like I have accomplished a lot today. Basically I did all of week four and fives assignments. I learned a great deal about evaluating internet sites and finding out if the information is valid and credible. The project prospectus enabled me to begin to see where this MRP is going and I am beginning to get Ideas about what I want to accomplish and how I want to accomplish it. I still have a lot of kinks, well big huge knots, to work out of my ideas though. Hopefully by this time next week I will be more specific about my ideas and figure out exactly how I want to do things for the project. I am still worried about completing this project but I am also beginning to get excited about my work. I not only hope to provide information to others, I also hope to learn some more about dysphagia myself. Really, we have not learned much about swallowing in class. I always thought it was very interesting but this project is going to give me different views of dysphagia, hopefully helping me decide I maybe do want to work with clients how have swallowing disorders. Then if I do go that path, this could very possibly make me a better clinician. This is all very exciting to me.

This week I got my new computer so my life is getting back to normal. I am beginning to get caught up a little bit with all of the stuff I need to do for this class. However I am yet to do week four assignments. My favorite thing from this week is the making of the webliography. This is the neatest thing I have ever done on a computer. I always wondered how to put links on my papers and how people post links on the internet. I feel so proud of myself for being able to do this and for actually getting it right on my first try.
I could definitely use a catch up week for this class very soon, I hate the feeling of being a week behind, it is just killing me plus it is killing my eyes to stare at the computer for so long trying to catch up.