The format of my journal has been changed this week. For the past two weeks, this opening paragraph has been reserved for complaints. I am happy to report that this week has been virtually stress free! Amazing...I have no complaints!

I started the week out with the goal of finishing Kiss the Girls and completing all of the assignments for this class. I am very close to accomplishing those two goals. I am hoping to finish the book tomorrow and then assignments today. I guess you can say that I have goals within goals because I have goals for completing these assignments. This week, I wanted to develop a really interesting essential question, find a good professional mailing list to subscribe to, search the web for good resources, and create a cool webliography.

The hardest thing about this week, was the essential question. Most of the assignments for this week could not be completed if I did not have a good question. I ended up changing my question this week and I am happy I did. I have found a lot of good information this week. The assignment about Foundation Questions took a while for me to complete. I had just settled on a topic when I went to tackle this assignment. It helped me narrow down my question, I hope now that it is not too narrrow. After settling on a essential question, the rest of the assignments were fairly easy to complete, though time consuming.

Finding a professional mailing list about Laryngectomies was harder than I thought it would be. There were not very many out there. I ended up subscribing to one about Laryngeal Cancer. I also subscribed to a voice list, but this list must be very low volume because I have yet to receive an email from them. Searching on this topic was easy. There is tons of information available on recovering voice after a laryngectomy.

I have not quite finished the writing assignments for Learning Needs and Learning Highlights. I expect to finish those soon. I have read the articles for Learning Needs a few times, and I am still collecting thoughts and thinking of a good prompt (especially since Laura stole my prompt idea). I am having trouble answering the Learning Highlights prompt, simply because I can not think of very many instances were I remember learning. Oh, I know that I have learned a lot in my lifetime, I just can not remember the actual process of learning the lessons.

My favorite part of the assignments this week was completing my Webliography. It was time consuming, but I like doing stuff like that. I like creating web pages and stuff like that.

So, through all of the work I did this week, what did I learn? I learned that I should feel pretty confident in my computer skills. I subscribed to the professional mailing list and searched on my topic with very few problems (other than deciding on an essential question). I also finished my Webliography without any problems. I also learned, through what I have written on the Learning Highlights, that I need to be more confident with myself. I can see now that the times I have struggled with learning have been the times when I have not believed in myself, or when I put set goals that are too high for myself. Overall, this week has been the best of the three. I have been much more relaxed, and there have been no tears.

The only question I have is how to make your email a link. Like how can I type my email address and let someone click on it to email me?