This is the last week of my very first class at GCU and I can't wait for it to be over. I am glad that the next class will be more challenging and that I will actually learn something from it. I am sure that I will at many times become so irritated with people in my next class that I will want to through the computer out the window but I am expecting people in the next class to ruffle my feathers so to speak as the next class is called "Christian World View."
I am sure there will be people that bash other religions because they do not understand them. I'm sure there will be missionary opportunities but will I be able to recognize them or will I be so frazzled by what other people are saying about other people or religions to notice that they are there. I am really hoping and praying that I will be able to recognize them and act upon them. At the same time I am really hoping that they are not there at all and that I can just get through the 7 week class whole and without problems of any kind.
I don't really know what to expect from this class but I'm sure I will make it though just fine. This first class has been so easy that at times I have wanted to rip my hair out for lack of boredom. However, I now know that I will do just fine with taking care of my family, home, church callings, and school work
So here's to the last week of what will probably be the easiest class I will have to take in the next four years and on to the harder work that I will actually learn something from and be able to apply to not only my classroom when I am done but also in my home when helping my children with their own school work.
And a HUGE HUGE HUGE thank you to the most wonderful husband in the world that has been extremely supportive of me starting school back up and getting the education that I want. He has sat next to me on the couch watching TV not complaining about the typing noise going on next to him that he would much rather not be there. As well as taking the time to look after our four children so that I can get some school work done when he is home during the day and on the weekends. And to the family and friends that have encouraged me to continue the good work and support they have provided and will continue to provided through out the next four years.
Monday, March 28, 2011
Sunday, March 13, 2011
1st quiz
Well, I took my first quiz, why I don't know. I have until next Sunday at 1am my time to get it completed and turned in and there is nothing that says I that it is not open book. I didn't do as well and I thought I had done so it's probably a good thing that we are given two chances to take it. Now I just have to make sure that I get 100% the next time I take it since there is an average to the two scores to get the final score.
I had a gut feeling that I should just go to bed and worry about taking the quiz later in the week since it is getting a little late and I have been dealing with a two year old that refuses to go to sleep for the last three hours. I really don't think that my mind is working to the best of its ability so 10pm was probably not the best time to take a quiz.
I still can not believe I missed that many though. I have been through this whole web site and classroom a million and one times and can get exactly where I need to be without having to click out of one screen and back track to get to the right place.
Oh, well I guess I'll review a little bit better tomorrow while my children are napping and take a crack at it again later on. I may even jump around the web site while I am taking it. There are only 30 questions and we have 30 minutes to complete the quiz so that is an average of 1 minute per question. I think I can search and find all the correct answers in 1 minute per question. Beside there are some questions that I have no doubt in my mind at all what the answer is and they were cake questions to answer.
So, here is to another try tomorrow, or the next day since I have week to take the quiz again.
I had a gut feeling that I should just go to bed and worry about taking the quiz later in the week since it is getting a little late and I have been dealing with a two year old that refuses to go to sleep for the last three hours. I really don't think that my mind is working to the best of its ability so 10pm was probably not the best time to take a quiz.
I still can not believe I missed that many though. I have been through this whole web site and classroom a million and one times and can get exactly where I need to be without having to click out of one screen and back track to get to the right place.
Oh, well I guess I'll review a little bit better tomorrow while my children are napping and take a crack at it again later on. I may even jump around the web site while I am taking it. There are only 30 questions and we have 30 minutes to complete the quiz so that is an average of 1 minute per question. I think I can search and find all the correct answers in 1 minute per question. Beside there are some questions that I have no doubt in my mind at all what the answer is and they were cake questions to answer.
So, here is to another try tomorrow, or the next day since I have week to take the quiz again.
Friday, March 11, 2011
3 weeks left
Well, I am over halfway done with my first class and it feels great. I still have a 100% on all of my assignments and that is an awesome feeling. I know that the courses are going to be getting harder and harder as I go but I still have a goal of graduating with a 4.0, I really don't know why I wasn't this motivated in High School. I guess maybe then I was more worried about other things and didn't apply myself as much as I should have. I didn't get bad grades but I know I could have done WAY better in high school and gotten better grades.
College I applied myself a bit more and that felt great that I was on top of things for most of that. But, this time around I'm really wanted to be better than I have been in the past with my studies. My academic counselor had to be the bad guy for a few minutes the other day when I told her that my goal was to graduate with a 4.0 and tell me that "it's a great goal but, don't get discouraged if you get an A- in a class because one A- will drop my GPA down from a 4.0." Not what I wanted to hear but she has to remind me of things like this as well as encourage me to continue to do well in my courses.
I don't really know what happened on the other end of someone using my work as their own, however my teacher did post to everyone the rules of on lines classes again and that they need to use thier own ideas. She was unaware that someone had done this and made sure that it was corrected.
On top of all this studing and everything that I've been doing, I've also been keeping up with my house and kids and the million different directions everyone likes to run as well as starting a new workout program called Shawn T Insanity, and it really is Insanity. I feel like I'm going to die everytime I do it. But I'm feeling better and I'm feeling a difference in my body and how I feel. I have muscles that I forgot I had so that is a good thing.
College I applied myself a bit more and that felt great that I was on top of things for most of that. But, this time around I'm really wanted to be better than I have been in the past with my studies. My academic counselor had to be the bad guy for a few minutes the other day when I told her that my goal was to graduate with a 4.0 and tell me that "it's a great goal but, don't get discouraged if you get an A- in a class because one A- will drop my GPA down from a 4.0." Not what I wanted to hear but she has to remind me of things like this as well as encourage me to continue to do well in my courses.
I don't really know what happened on the other end of someone using my work as their own, however my teacher did post to everyone the rules of on lines classes again and that they need to use thier own ideas. She was unaware that someone had done this and made sure that it was corrected.
On top of all this studing and everything that I've been doing, I've also been keeping up with my house and kids and the million different directions everyone likes to run as well as starting a new workout program called Shawn T Insanity, and it really is Insanity. I feel like I'm going to die everytime I do it. But I'm feeling better and I'm feeling a difference in my body and how I feel. I have muscles that I forgot I had so that is a good thing.
Monday, February 28, 2011
I'm hoping that my teacher is as observant as I think she is, I know that she reads everyones posts because she comments on the all. I realize that people will be thinking about some of the same things that I'm thinking about when they write their responces to the questions due each week but really come on use your own not mine. I really hope this person gets dinged for taking some of my responce and using as their own. A blind man could see that this person used part of my post and is trying to claim it as their own since they commented on my post about how they didn't think about some of the things that they used in their post. I have to post on two other people today so good thing there are three other people that posted today.
As a stay at home mom I really don't have all the time in the world like some of the people in this class apparently do, so please do us all a HUGE favor and keep your posts to a minimum. 4 complete paragraph more than likely will not get read or commented on by me as I have 4 children to chase and I really don't want to chase your 4 paragraph essay that was suppose to only be a few sentences or 1-2 paragraphs. I'm not sure that everyone in this class really gets how this works or what they are being asked to do.
When a teacher asks you to give examples in your answer they are not looking for 10 examples of the same thing a few is just fine. And by few I mean 2-3.
On, a brighter note. All of my kids are feeling much much better so I can concentrate a bit more on my school work and putting the quality that I would like to into my work. I've been being able to get all of my work for the week turned in on Sunday as it's seeming that things are really easy right now. The plan right now is that I will look ahead to see what's coming up and plan accourdingly. I'm sure some assignments will be cake and others will be hard. So get the cake out of the way and focus on the hard.
Great kids, make a great mom and I'm hoping that I can make a great student. My husband was standing behind me the other day when I checked my grades and asked why I had a low grade in my posts. Then he told me that he was proud of me because I'm above the class average by at least 5-10 pts on everything. My goal is to graduate with a 4.0 we will see how I do.
As a stay at home mom I really don't have all the time in the world like some of the people in this class apparently do, so please do us all a HUGE favor and keep your posts to a minimum. 4 complete paragraph more than likely will not get read or commented on by me as I have 4 children to chase and I really don't want to chase your 4 paragraph essay that was suppose to only be a few sentences or 1-2 paragraphs. I'm not sure that everyone in this class really gets how this works or what they are being asked to do.
When a teacher asks you to give examples in your answer they are not looking for 10 examples of the same thing a few is just fine. And by few I mean 2-3.
On, a brighter note. All of my kids are feeling much much better so I can concentrate a bit more on my school work and putting the quality that I would like to into my work. I've been being able to get all of my work for the week turned in on Sunday as it's seeming that things are really easy right now. The plan right now is that I will look ahead to see what's coming up and plan accourdingly. I'm sure some assignments will be cake and others will be hard. So get the cake out of the way and focus on the hard.
Great kids, make a great mom and I'm hoping that I can make a great student. My husband was standing behind me the other day when I checked my grades and asked why I had a low grade in my posts. Then he told me that he was proud of me because I'm above the class average by at least 5-10 pts on everything. My goal is to graduate with a 4.0 we will see how I do.
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Rants
I had a little rant this morning with one of my friends about some of the people in my class. I knew I was going to be going to a Christian based school and I'm totally fine with that, however, I guess I was a little unprepared for some of the people that I may meet in some of my classes. I was rather surprised at how one of the lady's is a minister (not so surprised that there are lady's that are ministers, since we got married in Vegas and we were married by a woman) but that she would use almost every one of her forum posts as a way to try and preach to people. It's really difficult to read some of her posts.
I'm all for religion as I am a religious person but I don't like to feel like someone is trying to, in a direct or indirect manner, preach their religion to me or make me feel like they are trying to persway me to thier religion. After all aren't we all able to make that dicission for our selves? I know I should be reading everyone's posts and seeing how they answer the questions view the outlook, see the world/questions but really not going to be able to read much of her posts.
I'm all for religion as I am a religious person but I don't like to feel like someone is trying to, in a direct or indirect manner, preach their religion to me or make me feel like they are trying to persway me to thier religion. After all aren't we all able to make that dicission for our selves? I know I should be reading everyone's posts and seeing how they answer the questions view the outlook, see the world/questions but really not going to be able to read much of her posts.
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Posts
I find it interesting that there are people out there that seem to not be able to answer a question correctly. Not that there was a correct answer but come on people really? How hard is it to write 250-300 words on someone you think is educated regardless of their schooling status? I didn't think it was that hard and found it rather easy to find a person that I felt of educated and how they are and how I can apply their story/life/strategies, etc to my education and how I'm going to use it at GCU while I'm gaining my education.
I didn't think that the teacher asked to to write about what we think and educated person is or how one becomes educated. I think we all know that there are different levels, if you will, of being educated and that you don't necessarily have to go to college to become educated. I don't think that these people were reading the same syllabus or question that I was reading.
However, even with my four children being sick (bronchitis, double ear infections and strep) I have managed to get all my work turned in a head or time and have been able to find a few minutes during the day to get my discussions done so that I don't loose too many participation point since it's 21% of my grade.
Here's to a continuing good grade and the health of my children may they all get better and maybe I can get my husband to get into the Dr too since he's got the same stinking cough my children do.
I didn't think that the teacher asked to to write about what we think and educated person is or how one becomes educated. I think we all know that there are different levels, if you will, of being educated and that you don't necessarily have to go to college to become educated. I don't think that these people were reading the same syllabus or question that I was reading.
However, even with my four children being sick (bronchitis, double ear infections and strep) I have managed to get all my work turned in a head or time and have been able to find a few minutes during the day to get my discussions done so that I don't loose too many participation point since it's 21% of my grade.
Here's to a continuing good grade and the health of my children may they all get better and maybe I can get my husband to get into the Dr too since he's got the same stinking cough my children do.
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
FlyLady
Before I decided to become an online student I decided that before I could be okay with spending a few hours a day locked away in my bed room on a computer doing school work I needed to have my house in order.
I remember that about a year or so ago one of my husbands cousins told me about flylady.net, and I didn't really think much about it. I looked at the web site once or twice but never really did anything with it of about using it.
I remember the web site when I decided to go back to school and thought that maybe the web site could actually help me get things back in order around this place and help me with my schooling and keeping things organized with my school work too.
I couldn't believe how much stuff she had to offer. If I had only known that she had a who section about packing and moving, man our move would have been so much more organized and I wouldn't have felt like I was going to loose it and having to hold it together in front of everyone for over a month. Not to mention that my house would have gotten un-packed and organized a lot fast after we moved.
I told myself that before I could go back to school and get my BS I must get this house in a good working order, organized, and clean with a good routine that works for me and not against me. I started looking at flylady.net and about three months later my house practially cleans itself. Between the morning and evening routine that I go through everyday, including weekends, and the routines I've gotten my kids into with cleaning up their rooms and wiping down their bathroom every night before they go to bed, yes 6, 4 & 2 year olds can do this with out help, I can't believe how much time I have to spend with my kids after my homework is done. I'm not haveing to spend the rest of my day doing laundry and cleaning the house.
FlyLady.net has got to be one of the best web sites I've ever used and has helped me get not only my house in order, organized and clean it's helped me get my life back and freed up WAY more time for me to play with my children.
I remember that about a year or so ago one of my husbands cousins told me about flylady.net, and I didn't really think much about it. I looked at the web site once or twice but never really did anything with it of about using it.
I remember the web site when I decided to go back to school and thought that maybe the web site could actually help me get things back in order around this place and help me with my schooling and keeping things organized with my school work too.
I couldn't believe how much stuff she had to offer. If I had only known that she had a who section about packing and moving, man our move would have been so much more organized and I wouldn't have felt like I was going to loose it and having to hold it together in front of everyone for over a month. Not to mention that my house would have gotten un-packed and organized a lot fast after we moved.
I told myself that before I could go back to school and get my BS I must get this house in a good working order, organized, and clean with a good routine that works for me and not against me. I started looking at flylady.net and about three months later my house practially cleans itself. Between the morning and evening routine that I go through everyday, including weekends, and the routines I've gotten my kids into with cleaning up their rooms and wiping down their bathroom every night before they go to bed, yes 6, 4 & 2 year olds can do this with out help, I can't believe how much time I have to spend with my kids after my homework is done. I'm not haveing to spend the rest of my day doing laundry and cleaning the house.
FlyLady.net has got to be one of the best web sites I've ever used and has helped me get not only my house in order, organized and clean it's helped me get my life back and freed up WAY more time for me to play with my children.
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