I would like to thank my classmates in CD315 for their encouragement and willingness to share their own experiences as we all embarked on the development of our Multigenre Projects. I would like to especially thanks Lekei Tolliver for continuously allowing me to put our heads together to sort out details of our assignments. I would like to thank Mrs. Mccomas for putting together a class that involved a new type of expression of research information rather than the traditional college research paper and allowing me to gain more knowledge about information literacy. I would also like to thank the people involved in the writing and research of educating caregivers on issues of dementia and aphasia. I am glad to see other people can sympathize with the need for communication compensation strategies as well as overall understanding of the disease and its impact on the caregiver patient relationship.

This week I started out really looking forward to having lunch with my classmates. I had a short, brief meeting with Mrs. Mccomas to get an idea how I could tie my pieces of my project together. She gave some good advice about balancing fact and emotion in my project. I hope I have succeeded at doing that this week. I like the idea of using a newsletter to tie my pieces together. I am still currently working on how I am going to lay it all out. I know what I want to do I just have to go to the library to do it because my computer is so lousy. If anything I am definitely going to go computer shopping at the beginning of our fall semester. I want to be able to use the skills I have learned from this class towards other work I will be doing the rest of my school career. In order to do that I have to update this computer or something.
I realized this week that since my project has a real personal perspective to it I also wanted to make sure the overall color affect was personal also. I put a iris on my front page because that is my favorite flower. I also love the colors of a spring garden so I changed the color scheme. I dont know if people who visit my weblog will see this affect but when I review my work it makes me feel like a fresh spring day. Kind of corny huh? I am still working and connecting and changing just like everyone else in the class seems to be doing. I still find things to change almost everytime I look at my work. I'm looking forward to completing everything early this week hopefully.

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