Aims & Objectives: My goals for this week were to make a final genre answering the last essential question I had not completed and done work on clearly enough. I also wanted to begin thinking about how my work may become better throughout the next week or two to being finalizing my MGP.
Declarative Knowledge: To be able to complete my 7th genre, I had to know what a powerpoint presentation is composed of and how to make one. I learned that making powerpoints is a very uncomplicated task that only takes a long period of time to complete! Through my powerpoint presentation, I learned that the goals of therapy for Pediatric Dysphagia are primarily few, but very complex procedures. There are functional goals and compensatory goals. A number of goals that are created and executed through therapy are for the child experiencing the disorder, while the others, are for the caregivers/parents who take care of the child doing things such as feeding.
I learned that digital literacy is a small term that ties together a number of various literacy skills we have been learning about throughout the semester. Digital literacy skills are those that tie together a number of others that help those find their way through technological situations and using digital devices and knowledge correctly and to the best of their own ability. I learned that a preface should contain why you decided to do a certain project and explain why it is interesting to you. Acknowledgments should contain those in which you wish that thank or notice for helping you complete your project; for supplying outside information or even for moral support. An about the author does just that – tells about you! The person writing the documentation or putting together a collection of knowledge and why you are doing so.
Procedural Information: I created my powerpoint, because we had to complete this genre, by first looking back at my project prospectious and thinking about the essential question I had not completely answered yet. I found this was “the goals of therapy for pediatric dysphagia”. I started doing research; looking through books Mrs. Holland gave me on therapy of pediatric dysphagia, tried to find articles online (that you did not have to buy), and visited various websites such as the Duke Medical Center Page on Feeding Disorders. Once I had found my information, I started piecing it together cohesively for my document. I opened up Microsoft Office Powerpoint and started looking around to refamiliarize myself with the program so I would understand how to use it. I looked at clip art, different templates for slides, and even how to layout my information to make it visually appealing. When I was satisfied with the pictures I wanted to use and the information I would use for this piece, I started drafting. I put all of my information on the slides by typing it in, manipulating the font and size, and then putting the slides in the correct order of which the viewer should see them. I then saved this document and watched it over and over as a slideshow to make sure I was able to follow the powerpoint presentation easily and ensure the terms used were not too difficult to understand for an ordinary reader. I then used APA format to put together a slide showing my resources. When completed, I got on my weblog and created a page for this Genre 7, Powerpoint Presentation. I created a title for it and then had to upload it from Microsoft to the page “copying to editor”. This took a very long time, expecially for the amount of slides I had completed. I then commented on the work by two of my fellow classmates, Holly & Emma. I visited their weblogs, looked at their Genre 6 critically and then wrote to them on their comment feature different tips I could offer on their work such as who it was created for, who it was in the “voice of”, what information they were attempting to express, something I thought they did well on, and something I thought they could think about further. I then looked up websites and articles on digital literacy to complete assigment 3. I answered the questions, What Do you know about Digital Literacy, What my reaction to these skills is, and how I feel as Digital Literacy will influence education. I posted my 600 (little over need) to my weblog as 12.3. I then completed the assigment of Preface. To do this, I had to think very critically as to why I chose to complete my project on Pediatric Dysphagia and attempt to word it into how others would understand my rationale. I posted this as a page to my weblog. For assignment 5, Acknowledgements, I looked at books I had to see how they completed theirs such as Janet Evonovich. I then thought about how I had learned all the information I did, and who I owed for that. This was fun to do and I hope that these people will someday read my Thanks! For the last assigment of the week, I created an About the Author page on my weblog. In this document, I wrote approximately 10 sentences about myself, shortly explaining something about me to a reader who may stumble upon this site. I posted all of these assigments to my weblog. I included information that was broad and even personal into these sites, keeping in mind anyone could be reading it!
Conditional Knowledge: I hope as my Powerpoint presentation will benefit someone learned about Pediatric Dysphagia. Hopefully a clinician would know more about the skills than is shown in my document so the information it percieves would not be as influential to them. However, I hope that to someone who cares for someone with pediatric dysphagia will understand the importance of theraputic tecniques and how they would be benefial to their child. I hope that I helped Holly & Emma by telling them they are doing a great job on their work and offer them some advice on how they could make it even better (at least in my own opinion). My learning about digital literacy, I will again hope to never take these skills for granted and hope to only strengthen them through my continued work with technology. With my last three assigments, I hope to give my site some “personality” and hope the reader who does not know me can understand the reason I chose my topic for this project, why I love it so much, and those I am ever so grateful for.
Recent Comments