#aq course

[thehopefulbluestocking]

I have three word documents open and needed to be worked on for my online course and I don't want to. I'm not in a thinking/writing mood. I worked all morning outlining and brainstorming for these things, but I can't seem to get any traction and actually start writing them into a semblance of order. 

These assignments are not interesting to me. 

This is the final module, however, and I need to get these assignments done. Six days left. 

Then I will have two weeks to do nothing before I go back to for the week-before-school prep which includes starting to deal with guidance stuff which I am feeling less confident about than I did in June. 

Blargh. Bah humbug. 

[thehopefulbluestocking]

So much computer time today. Between my essay and project and research, my eyes are feeling like the Sahara.

[thehopefulbluestocking]

Final AQ course assignment submitted. . . now all I have to do is participate in some discussions and it is done. . . weeee! 

Just in time for me to work on report cards. . . :P

[thehopefulbluestocking]

OK.

So my first course assignment has been submitted.

It's been a long time since I've done this. . . 

[thehopefulbluestocking]

Why does it take me so long to write things? Being precise is so time-consuming. . . 

[thehopefulbluestocking]

Sigh. Reading through my distance ed course forums, I am so annoyed by the misuse of their/they're/there. . . Seriously, you went through university and teacher's college and don't know the difference yet?  

Main culprit is a recent teacher's college graduate. Makes me concerned about the quality of secondary AND post-secondary education. 

Maybe it's an auto-correct problem, but seriously: Be professional. Proofread. 

[thehopefulbluestocking]

So I think the hardest part of doing this online course will be the fact that it takes me soooo long to put together reasonably coherent posts/responses. Why does it take me so long to write simple paragraphs?

I've got to think about things, but I think about new things as I'm writing, and then have to see if the new things fit with the old things, and then have to go back and rewrite the old things, so all the things flow. And then repeat ad nauseum. 

Until all the pieces have found their proper place, I scramble around looking for words to express the inchoate concepts floating in my brain.

Processing and communicating are not things I do well simultaneously.  :P

[thehopefulbluestocking]

elozable said: That is a mountain of productivity!

Well I suppose. . . Knowing how much I have to do yet, it doesn't feel as productive as it sounds. (The fact that I have a counter full of dishes to do and a mountain of house work doesn't help either.) I guess I underestimate the progress. I would rather just be done--it sounds better. lol

Thanks for the encouragement though. :)

I also forgot to mention I drank three cups of coffee in the last 4-ish hours and had a 1/2 hr Facebook conversation with a former colleague. Woo.

Anyway, time for a meal and then back to the grind stone.