A7.5: Week 7 Reflection

Aims and Objectives:

My goals for this week were:

• To learn more about using Powerpoint.  In my years using Powerpoint I have learned by trial and error so my goal is to learn how to use it better in order to accomplish my work.  I want to become a more efficient user and not take as much time to complete a presentation due to trying to figure out what works.
• To be creative.  I think of myself as an analytical thinker with some creativity but not a lot.  This week we had to write a poem for our MGRP so I wanted to make my poem creative.
• To learn more about photo-visual literacy.  One of our assignments this week was to find information on photo-visual literacy and talk about.  I wanted to express my views on the topic as well in this assignment so I had to attain some knowledge about the topic, in order to write about it.

Declarative Knowledge:

     This week I learned more about Powerpoint and how to use.  I think that I can now use the program with ease to create a presentation.  I learned more about my research project and more about poetry.  I chose an acrostic poem because I thought that it would be fun to do and it didn’t have to rhyme.  I learned that photo-visual literacy is a skill that develops on its own without any coaching but now it is become a part of curriculum.  I really think that this is awesome.  I learned more about my group members and how I could contribute more to our group conversations.

Procedural Knowledge:

   To begin this weeks assignments I went to the class webpage and read the readings.  I also went to my email and logged in to read more of the messages from my mailing list.  When creating my poem I searched the internet for different types of poems by going to Yahoo and typing in poems.  It was there I found a link to acrostic poetry and decided to create this type of poem for my project.  I then wrote down some facts about Broca’s aphasia.  I gathered my thoughts wrote my poem and then came to wordpress and logged in.  Once I logged in I clicked on my dashboard and went to write.  I clicked write page and typed my poem.  When I was finished I clicked post.  To complete the reflection on the group conversation, I went to my email and opened the transcript.  I then looked at the transcript and answered the questions that were given.  Once this was completed I posted it as I normally post.  To complete the photo-visual literacy project, I went to Yahoo and typed in the words.  I then analyzed the information that I found.  I gathered my thoughts and answered the questions.  I finished by posting it to my weblog.

Conditional Knowledge:

     Doing research for Broca’s aphasia is providing me with ample information that I can use as a student and in my future clinical work.  Reflecting on the group conversation really helped me determine how I may be more helpful in a conversation and how sometimes you may have to reread what has been typed in order to understand what a person meant in their comment.  There is no shame is asking for someone to repeat and being aware of what is being said.  This will definitely help me as a clinician.  I think all in all everything that I have learned this week will help me be a better student and a better clinician.

Question:

In our poem’s if we chose to write from the client’s perspective, should we write exactly how they would have written it?