Invitations, Invitations, Invitations

Yesterday in my X-460 class we were given the details to a new assignment that we have coming up for our last class. Guess what is part of this assignment? To design an invitation. I feel as if I have learned about invitations maybe 12 times now all together this semester. Luckily, because we are doing the invitation assignment for our field experience I am able to use that lay out for my X-460 class, so I guess it pays off having our classes intertwine like that...sometimes.

Writing Samples

After obtaining a writing sample for my student at University, I was able to actually take a closer look at the child I have been observing. This certain child has creative and slightly random thoughts, but when I received the writing sample I was surprised to find that although his thoughts may seem to be all over the place when talking to him in person, his writing was pretty organized. He grouped was he was thankful for (which is what the writing piece was about) by first talking about family and friends, and then transitioning into more superficial things such as every fast food restaurant in Bloomington. Although his points may not have been the deepest, they were clearly organized and thought out. It was also interesting to see that his spelling ability is pretty good, although his handwriting is kind of all over the place. This just goes to show you can't judge off of neatness.

MGRP Fair

I thought that being able to walk around and learn a little about each person's topic during our MGRP "fair" was a good experience in both seeing ways other people incorporated the genres into their projects as well as getting to know what other people's interests were. Topics ranged from Hugh Hefner to the Galapagos Islands, and all of them had very interesting facts. I noticed that even if I thought that I was already knowledgeable on a certain topic, I was able to still learn something new about each topic. The only thing I would have changed about the way the presentations were set up would be allowing everyone to view video clips that people brought in. Because of the noise level in the classroom and the constant moving from one person to the next, it was hard to stop and view full clips that people brought in.