Beneath the Wraps

             Jenna took the college placement test – more for practice than for placement.   But ever since she has been receiving brochures from different colleges and is a bit fed up with the amount of mail she’s been getting.   Yesterday she received a piece of mail that wasn’t college related and thus felt very excited about it.             One of the YW leaders had contacted us by phone, and another had sent the mail which contained a brief note, a word search puzzle, a recipe for something called tail mix bites and a coloring page.             Jenna handed me the word search while she worked on the coloring page.   It was quite a challenging puzzle with 900 letters.   Who does that?             Most puzzles are less than 250 letters.   I ne...

I attended the webinar lecture though my mind wasn't as present as my body. Not as though I was seriously in the mood anyway There were too many sounds drowning out the lecture First of all, my instructor had a sore throat.  He didn't quite sound like Darth Vader throughout the entire lecture There was no wheezing - but a lot of deep throat My neighbor's acoustics were going and the sirens from fire department started wailing loudly. One of my classmate forgot she had turned on her mike  and failed to turn it off before she attempted to discipline children making noise in background. My instructor finally muted her and kept referring to the time which made me laugh as he seemed more anxious to finish the lecture than I was.  I should have left the lecture earlier I suppose. I really didn't get anything out of it.

                It is so hard trying to get back into the swing of school assignments etc. after a holiday weekend or vacation.   For the last three years I have had classes at the end of the year for two weeks before the winter vacation (or Christmas) and am expected to finish the next two week after the New Year.   I'm certain it's equally hard on the instructors.   Perhaps even more so.                 So on MLK day, I was to start a new class (my last accounting class folks.   I had miscalculated before and thought this would be two more.   But I was wrong.   Hallelujah!).   Didn't do much for it on Monday as we had invited a few friends over to eat pizza and play games. The lectures don't happen until Tuesday at 6:00 MST and so I decided I would just wait before posting to my discussion. ...

          Before school was back in session I had accepted two job assignments - one was for yesterday.  I had worked with the person I was replacing, but had never worked in her place.  Meanwhile, I had received a call from an aide at one of the other schools.  In a way I prefer her schedule over the one I had lined up for myself yesterday. She primarily works with the middle schoolers and does not have an assigned recess.  She is there for breakfast duty but doesn't have lunch duty.  I like that.                     After I returned home, I turned on the computer to view at least one missing lecture.   Both had been posted - but once again,   the accounting instructor just read through each slide and problem.   There was no mention of discussion, assignment and so forth.   Like I'm going to purposely s...

Scenario: You are an instructor about to present a lecture that you will need to record anyway.   It is 11:30 mountain time - the time announced to students when live lecture takes place.   You turn on your computer ready to start the meeting and there is no one there to listen to you live question:     Do you start the lecture on time? Do you walk away from your computer and decide to return a few minutes later?   Do you wait half an hour after designated time before you start?   or would you start on time even though there isn't anybody with you at the start? I would hope you would start on time.   five or ten minutes after the designated time, maybe, but not half an hour.    I was late for class, I'll admit that.   Maybe 15 to 20 minutes.   There was somebody else signed on beside the instructor.   Why isn't he talking?   I am late for class.   What am I missing?   How come the sign on sc...

          I don't know how many courses my current instructor is teaching, but this is the third mod that I've had her.   At least the lecture is on Tuesday now instead of Wednesday, so that will be better.   But the subject is still accounting.   I actually slept through today's lecture.   She was late getting started and didn't sound almost done when I finally turned her off.   I still have to create my discussion post - but then again, so does the rest of the class.           Today starts a new mod.   My instructor kept referring to the things that had been discussed in the class last week - which I suppose is fine and good for those who actually took ACC322 last mod, but what about the members of the class who may have not even had an accounting class last mod?   She did say there were several names of students that she has been assigned to previousl...

            Modern Technology in some aspects has made our lives easier, but at the same time has seemed to create more challenges - particularly when there is a glitch or breakage.  Last week I had both my laptop and pc on my desk.  I could seem to receive the internet on my pc so long as my laptop was near - like an insecure child unwilling to go through with it on its own.  Oh, brother.              I've been using Internet Explorer on the PC as chrome seems to provide a tremendous amount of pop-ups (even though the blocker is set to BLOCK)  which is extremely annoying when taking an exam.  But lately I've been having issues with explorer as well.  I don't know why, but I have never liked Firefox.  And I can't open Yahoo in the PC at all.               I've be...

   In this post I made a comment about how a survey is sent out during the final week of an online class and that we are expected to fill out said survey before we can continue with program.   I have now taken 4 or 5 classes in which I either haven't had a pop-up or else it popped up later than usual.   I don't know if I'm through with the surveys as I am halfway through my program, if it's a fluke, or if there have been bugs in the system when the school changed its format.   I'm guessing the latter.           Currently I'm taking the first of six intermediate accounting classes.   I signed on to the live lecture and was asked how I felt about last week's assignment.   O.K. I guess.   In the chat box I wrote, "I didn't hate it but I didn't love it either."   The instructor laughed as she read my comment.   She seemed to agree because of the subject matter.           Seriously? ...