Quiz thing

i took the quiz that you guess where the people were from, I found it very hard to tell where the people were from. They all sound a like to me. i only got maybe half of them right.

57% Dixie

I guess my 12 years spent near Ft. Wayne Indiana is showing through. It was alot of fun. More games that help us identify parts of ourselves are fun. Does anyone know where more are?

Dialect Quiz

I took the dialect quiz and I am 58% Dixie, barely Dixie........I really don't know what this means, so I guess I am okay with it. It's a pretty cute little quiz!! :)

Jenna's mom

I really enjoyed getting to meet Susan Monday night. It was nice to see how a parent reacted to the situation and what she felt was a vitial part of her daughters education. Meeting this guest has realled brought the class to a personal level.

Hope nobody got sick!

I have a terrible cold! I just finished taking the ACT Residual here on campus...like two hours ago and then took a huge Astronomy test and I am looking for someone I can hire to give me a ride home. Just kidding! I don't know if our class attendance was off due to illness, but if I had felt like this, this morning, I would not have taken either test. But good luck to all, keep your hands off rails and doorknobs, use hand sanitizer, and for goodness sake, wash your hands!

Hope everyone had a safe holiday and I will see everyone next week!!

The test said I was Yankee?

I took the quiz on the blog and my score was a33% and it said I was definitely a Yankee. I find this very funny because most people think I am a hick. If you here my accent it is not hard to tell where I am from. It was a neat quiz everyone should take it. It is neat to see how different words are used to explain the same thing all over the US.

Language Analysis interview

I really enjoyed the interview with the child I chose. Well I wouldn't even call it an interview. It was more of a play date. It took forever writing the transcript though, and I would like to thank Mrs. White for letting us know that this part would be more time-consuming than most of us would have expected. I learned alot from listening to my chosen child's language. I look forward to teaching these children and am praying not to lose my rose-colored glasses.

Dialects

If you haven't tried the dialect quizzes in the right hand corner of the blog I would suggest that you take the time and try it. I was just curious to see what it was and found that the activity was interesting. I was actually surprised at my results.

I work at Don Pablo's and the other day a woman and a little boy came in with autism and i recognize this right away as i was sitting them he begin to get a little upset not wanting to be around all the other people. well i was like you show me where you want to go. he was non commutative and walked me to a corner booth. his mother was so happy she said she had never been anywhere before that someone actually understood and knew how to handle it and he was so happy!! it made my day. so just wanted to share my experience with everyone and to let everyone know all the work we are all doing is really worth it.

Thanksgiving

I just wanted to say that I had a great thanksgiving. I ate way too much of course, but that's thanksgiving and its okay! I do have to say though that I didnt' eat as much as I usually do, I think its because I had three dinners to attend and I was just rushed and ate a little at each place. I do have to say that I got up at 3:30 to go shopping which is the earliest I have gotten up in a long time!! Hope everyone had a good thanksgiving!

Kelsey

It's Christmas...

Thanksgiving is over and my sister says when Thanksgiving in over, Christmas is here! At any rate, I hope everyone had a fabulous break and got to spend some quality time with family/friends and eat lots of wonderful food while being thankful. :)

I don't know about you all, but I'm going to dread waking up for my 8 o'clock class tomorrow. I shouldn't have let myself sleep in so much =X

But anywho, that's how it goes.

*Alisa*

THANKSGIVING BREAK!!!

I hope everyone had a Happy and Safe Thanksgiving!!!

Did everyone eat too MUCH and Spend to MUCH money the day after... I know we did!!! I hope is was a GREAT holiday for everyone!!! I am sure we ALL have a lot to be thankful for!!!

Remember our Observation Sample Project is due MODAY Night 11-26...

Have a great weekend!!!

Holly H.

Online FINAL

I am an AVID fan of technology. I love the convenience that it provides. I believe it enables all of us to be more effective as well as efficient. I use it in many, many ways both personally and professionally.

When many people were OPPOSED to online testing (and still are in k-12) I have ALWAYS been a supporter of it. Regardless of the problems we have all experienced and the ways it can be misused I believe the BENEFITS far outweigh the negatives.

One of the most convenient aspects of typing or word processing is copying and pasting. I have ENCOURAGED you to type your answers in Word and then copy and paste them into Blackboard.

However, I want to CAUTION you as we move toward our ONLINE FINAL. Copying information from anywhere into your answers will not be of benefit to you. YOUR mind, YOUR ideas and how YOU synthesize material will earn you the most points. I am not looking for fancy wording in answers. I am not looking for textbook perfect material (If I were I'd go to Kuder and read him again). I am interested in what YOU have LEARNED and your perspective on the question and how you will answer it. You are bright students. Trust yourself and your mind.

I know I said much of this in class on Monday. Grading the remainder of the tests I felt I needed to say it again along with these few TIPS FOR THE FINAL:

• Be sure to read the entire question
• Answer all parts of the question
• Answer the question as it is written - do not just write information about the topic of the question - ANSWER THE QUESTION
• Less is better - do not type exhaustive lists
• Paraphrase or Summarize and put information in your own words - - do not type anything word for word or copy and paste

So, YES, the final will be ONLINE. Yes, it will be open book, open notes. No answer that is copied from another source will be accepted. NO points will be given for those answers. All answers must be your own words.

You can post questions in the blog to create an online study guide as well. This would then be available to you as a reference during the Final.

You may posts questions about the Final in the comments section for this post.

Mrs. White

Thank you!

I just wanted to say THANK YOU to Mrs. White for letting us choose how we wanted to take the final. I haven't had any other professor to let us do this.

How about a compromise?

I just had a thought. It would be great to have a reference to our previous chapters on the comprehensive test. I spent several hours on the last test and still did poorly. I cannot imagine having to search the entire book and power points for the referenced materials. Here is a tip. Print the power points before taking the tests so you won't get knocked off the test by trying to get to them while taking the test.

Class Project

The last class was great. I got so much from the run-through on the different approaches to the project, I cannot decide which one I want to do. I will have to decide soon though as the deadline nears. Either way, it will be much more simple to understand.

Hello!!! its THANKSGIVING DAY!!! i wanted to tell everyone Happy Turkey DAy!!! enjot your time off and hope all is well where ever you end up today!!!

Autism & Language

I would like to invite everyone to watch Youtube and view In My Language. Then go to cnn.com click on health and in the Dr. Sanjay Gupta's blog scroll down to the highlighted Anderson Cooper 360 prompt. On Anderson Cooper 360 there is a box with more info. about Amanda Baggs and why she made this youtube video.

This is fascinating to me; the description of an autistic first language. I think you will learn from watching Amanda's video and from her interview.

Class

Alice

Class was fun today, and it really help me with the language sample project. Now I know for sure what we are suppose to do. I am really glad that we when over the language sample project today in class.