the website/blog 4

Here's the website I forgot to put it in my first blog:

www.sandreababyquilts.com

Blog 4/Website Critique

I chose examine a quilting website because I want to learn to applique on some of my quilts that I make. While the site that I looked at was very easy to navigate and had some very interesting and fun things on their sight I was very disappointed in the lack of pictures along with their directions. I'm a show me kinda gal. I can usually pick up on things very quickly if somebody shows me how to do it, but this website is lacking in this kind of directions. They have very detailed written instructions, but they have no diagrams of any type to go along with them, for the visual type learners, like myself.

While I throughly enjoyed all the quilts, patterns and everything else this site had to offer, my advice to the webmaster would be; if you are going to offer instructions on the web then you should also offer diagrams of some sort to all the visual learners out there in cyber land. Since I have began my studies in special education I have become more aware of the differerent learning styles of different individuals and I just seem more attuned to their, for a lack of a better word, feelings in these types of situations.

So, while I enjoyed this site very much and will visit it in the future please add more diagrams and pictures to your instructions.

Blog 3/Website

As I began to the process of creating the website to recruit students to my major of Speical Education I had no idea of what I was doing. I've never even attempted this feat before, but once I went onto the site and got started with it I really enjoyed it.

The overall process of what I was writing of course was trying to entice students to the field of Special Education. I wanted the outcome of my words to be used as a tool to convince furture students at USM that SPED is the major for them. The outcome that my reader desires is for me to convince them that SPED is indeed the major for them.

My primary reader for this website is future students to USM who have not decided on a major. I want my website to be so bold and eyecatching that it will help these students to realize that SPED is exactly what they are looking for in their lives. Others who are education majors may also visit my site and decide they may want to become a dual major in SPED because my website was just that awesome and caught their eye and their attention. Some readers to the website may be very knowledgeable in the area of SPED and some may have no clue about th subject at all. This is why in making the website I need to make sure that I have as much information about the subject possible. I need to make sure that I lay out all the facts that I know about the major and make it interesting and make students truly want to take note in the field. Also, while making the website I should take age into consideration. In today's society students are not just teens fresh out of high school; they are adults from all age groups. I need to make sure that my website is appealing to those groups, from the teen fresh out of high school, to the grandma who has decided to seek that degree she never had time to obtain before.

All in all while creating any website it needs to be centered around the audience you are trying to reach, just like any other communication that is being presented.

Blog 2/Revised

The piece that I chose to analyze for this assignment was from a Mississippi History class. The story is "The Wide Net," by Eudora Welty.

The context of the story to me was for entertainment. Ms. Welty told a story about a husband and wife in old time Mississippi. The story told of William Wallace and Hazel Jamieson. Hazel was big and pregnant and feeling lonely because William was still going out every night carousing with his friends. This does not set very well with Hazel and she sets out to teach him a lesson. Now that I have given a brief overview of the story my belief would be that William ansd Hazel's marriage is what is at stake.

I have not read any other publications by Ms. Welty but she did an awesome job of telling a story of what my idea of ole time Mississippi would be like. She brought the characters alive, makig her readers feel as though they could be there walking down the dirt roads of Mississippi right along with her characters. I do not know if Ms. Welty is from the south, but she did an excellent jof protraying the southern charm in her characters.

The author's call to write, as I mentioned above was to entertain, but I also believe that she was trying to give insight into what life in the ole time south was all about. She shared with her readers what I feel was how things happened in the south during that period of time. Women were expected to stay at home, take care of the house and have babies. While men folk did what they pleased, as William showed as he was out cavorting with his friends and getting drunk. I believe that Ms. Welty was trying to get the point across to her readers that they should cherish what they have because they never know when it will be gone. She told this by showing how distraught William was when he came home to find Hazel's note saying she was going to the river to drown herself. She made the reader feel William's pain as he headed to the river to drag it to find his drowned wife.

The intended audience would be anybody. This is a very entertaining story and I believe that it could be a great read for most readers. Since the story was assigned in a Mississippi History class I think that it would also be a good read for those interested in southern history.

I believe that Ms. Welty did an awesome job of telling a story of how the south was during that time period. The story was enjoyable and able to keep my attention from the beginning. This to me is what makes a writer's work worth reading.

Blog 2/Eng 333

The paper that I chose to analyze for this assignment was from a Mississippi History class. History is not my field of study but it is one of my enforsements. I am a Special Education major as I mentioned before but Social Studies is one of my endorsements. Therefore, I do a lot of history papers. The contet came from the story "The Wide Net." We were given the assignment to outline the story "The Wide Net." We weren't given any other sources or material to use other than the story to use in writing the paper.

The topic was chosen for the class of course because we were all reading the same thing. I don't think that we were were expected to learn anything through the writing process, but I do believe we were expectd to learn something through the process of reading the story and putting what we had learned from the story onto the paper in our own words.

The audience for this paper was my teacher only. I didn't know a lot about my reader other than he was my professor and that he was very knowledgeable in the subject that he was teaching. I wasn't trying to estabish a relationship with my reader just trying to get my idea of the story across to him.

My call to write was trying to give y point of view on the story that I had read and what my thoughts of it were. I addressed the issues that I did because I felt that they wer the overall important facts of the story. I felt that the facts that I brought out were the ones that told the story of William and Hazel in the best way possible. I made the paper my own by using my own tone in the paper. I used language that sounded like I was sitting down at the table talking to y profesor instead of writing it all down on a piece of paper for him to read. I feel that is the best way to communicate what we are tyring to way when we are writing. When we say things like we are in conversation with somebody and not worrying some much about the grammatical and other errors. While these things are important; I believe the storytelling is more important.

In writing this paper, I was trying to relay to the reader what I had gathered from the story. I wanted them to be ablel to understand the story without having to read it. I wanted it to paint the reader a picture of the story that made then want to read it and to enjoy it as mch as I had enjoyed it myself.

As I stated above I tried to use a conversational tone in my paper. I wanted my reader to be able to feel like I was sitting there telling them the story instead of them being bored to death by mumbo jumbo or just retelling the story word for word. I think I used a lot of country slang in my paper. This was a story written in Mississippi and it had a lot of southern slang, so in writing my paper I felt the need to add that into it as I wrote.

I feel that the goal the teacher had set in having us to write this paper was to make sure we were doing the reading that assigned to us, but the main goal was to make sure that we understood what we were reading and that we were able to convey that back to him on paper.

About Me/ENG 333

Hi...My name is Susan Peterson. I am a Senior and will graduate in May 2012. My major is Speical Education with endorsements in English and Social Studies. I am currently a full-time student. I have been a stay at home wife and home mom for the past 18 years. My husband retired from the Navy after 22 years of service on February 1, 2011. I have one son he is 15 years old and will be a sophmore.

As far a writing that I have done regulary for my major it seems all I do is write, with English being one of my endorsements I have taken a lot of Enlgish courses, so I have done a lot of essays, research papers and things of that nature. Also, with Social Studies being my other endorsement I have done a lot of researxh papers in those classes as well. So, I would have to say the majority of my writing in college has been research paper. These are not my favorite things to write I can honestly say.

I do have to do a lot of writing of IEP's (Individualized Education Plan) in my classes. These are very time consuming and are a LOT of writing. These will probably be what I spend most of my writing time on once I graduate.

I love to write. I express myself better with pen and paper than I can ever think about doing verbally. I tend to get all tongue tied when I am trying to convey what I want to say face to face but if I sit down with pen in hand the words just flow smoothly from my mind.

So, that is a little about me and the things that I have written and the things that I like to write.

Introduction

My name is Susan Peterson. I am 42 years old. I will be married 16 years in March. My husband is in the U.S. Navy and is stationed in Gulfport at the Seabee base. I have one son his name is Drew and he turned 13 on January 9th. He is in the 7th grade. I am working towards my Special Education degree and hope to graduate in December 2010.