January 24, 2003
How do you feel about being in a Cyber comp class?
Being in a Cyber Comp class I think is very neat. We don’t have to write anything on paper or at least not yet. Its cool how we made web sites and everything we write in this class everybody can see, then people that give you ideas on how to help your writing or anything else. Doing everything on the computer I think I’m going to become quicker and know more about the computers. That will help me as I go on into the real world. I’m looking forward to being in this class and learning everything on the computer.
January
31, 2003
February 7, 2003
This is my third week being in a cyber class and I’m starting to like it a lot now. We just started to write a Descriptive writing and finished that. Now I’m starting on my personal narrative and this is going to be very exciting to do because it’s going to allow me to spill all of my thought on to paper. I’m going to write my loosing my best friend Brianne. I hope that my story will interest people. Before; I didn’t really understand anything in this class but now I’m starting to catch on and it is getting easier and easier. I’m learning so fast in here that I am able to help people on things!
February 18, 2003
Do you ever find yourself helping others to learn something? How does that feel? Is this a normal role for you or new to you?
During this class I do feel that I am helping people and when I do that then I do understand how do to it better the next time. When you do things more then once then you begin to understand better. Yes I believe that this is a normal role for me because I see myself helping people during classes all the time when they don't understand something and I do. I love it when I don't understand things and people help me. So all I try to do is return the favor to others. I feel a lot better about myself when I am helping people. It makes me understand so much more then if I just do it once
If an outsider visited your site, what would you hope he or she would think about?
If an outsider would come and visit my website I hope that they would think it is put together very well. With some of the kids in this class as I look at their website I think to myself that they are very intelligent. I hope that some people that look at my website think the same thing of me. I would want them to read my links and be interested and not bored when they read them. I would want them to e-mail me and tell me what they thought about my website tell me if they liked it, or not. If they didn't it would be awesome for them to tell me something to do different with it
March 18, 2003
In the last two weeks everything has been getting stressful in this classroom. We have things to do and dates that we have to follow and I'm trying so hard no to not get behind in my work and it is getting harder and harder. Since I was gone to go to state basketball i have fallen behind a little bit. Everything will be alright because right now my grade is fine it is an "A". Now that its getting harder I guess that just means that I have to work harder!
April 25, 2003
Wow we have not written in our cyber journals for such a long time. We have written many things. We have also annotated a story. Right now we are starting our big research paper. It is going to take awhile to do because it has to be like four pages. I just started to take notes. I have all of my sources done and almost all of my notes. So far I don't think that this class has gotten any harder. it just keeps getting easier for me usually I'm like one week ahead of where we are suppose to be.
End of the year journal
May 19, 2003
Wow, it’s already the end of the year. Being in a cyber journal was very interesting. I would rather have classes on the computer because I am pretty good with them. Other people haven’t being doing so well because it’s harder for them to learn how to do things on the computer. This semester I have learned a lot with the computers. Such as setting up a web site and making changes to it and everything. I am sure that this is going to be valuable for me in the future because I’m sure when I go to college I’m going to need to know how to work with computers.
I think that I have also became a better writer in this class because of all of the writing that we have done I have learned more about sentence structure and all. This class also made everybody a more self-directed learner. It has made me because Mrs. Schulze doesn’t help us that much she makes up go on her web site and look at what we were suppose to do for that day, and it would have instructions. I think that it is better that way that she does that because we can’t be spoon-fed for our whole lives.
Being in this class was a challenge for many people. For me it wasn’t too bad I was always sending in my things on time or ahead of time. When I was ahead of everybody I loved to help other people that didn’t know exactly what he or she were doing. That is so awesome for me because I do like to teach people how to do things if they don’t know how.
At the beginning of the semester when I heard that we had to make a website I was freaking out. I didn’t know how to do anything. I was completely lost. After awhile though I got the hang of it and it wasn’t so bad. I guess that just goes to show you that you should freak out when you are told you have to do something that you think you cant do because if you really try you can do anything. I’m just really glad that I got the privilege of being in a cyber journal class.
