Though my communications class started on Monday, the lecture isn’t given until Wednesday morning. I am not able to attend the live session when I am working and cannot listen to the recording until after I return home. The instructor does have a question-answer period on that same day but I don’t want to just pop in and start asking questions she may have already covered in the video and yet if they are not covered in the recorded lecture, I have missed my opportunity for asking live. I feel like I am working with a two-edged sword. I don’t like it.
Our initial discussion post is due on Wednesday, but I like to have it done by Monday or Tuesday. Sometimes the discussion doesn’t get covered in its entirety anyway. Thus I did post what I had written based on what I read. But I had missed the point of the assignment and did not get that turned in until just several hours ago. There was something mentioned during the lecture that made me realize I hadn’t read the expectations correctly. I had also missed having to contact the writing center two or three times before I decided to turn it in.
What? I have to use the writing center to complete this assignment? It’s been required for at least two other classes and has always been a traumatic experience for me. Always! I was never able to keep an appointment or was always late getting in because I have never been able to connect to Blackboard collaboration right away – even when I had believed that the tech at the school had fixed it for me. Every time I go to sign on, it asks me to download it into the system. Every time! Shouldn’t it already be there?
So my appointment was scheduled for 4:30 MDT yesterday. I attempted signing in just before 4:00. Download. Wait. Connect. Really? I got connected? I still had twenty minutes before my appointment.
I was told that she had just finished up her 4:00 appointment and I was welcome to start my session early. I was hoping that she had access to the document I had submitted at the time of my making the appointment. My computer and laptop haven’t been communicating as usual and I couldn’t retrieve the document from either device. The assignment hadn’t been saved to my laptop (though I had used the cloud) and my pc seems to be at a frozen stage whereas I am not getting any icons to click on nor does the search allow me to type anything. Roland thinks the keyboard is the problem. I don’t see how.
