Well, hello nightly blog.

This has become my bedtime ritual (oh, right, my blog!!).  Another good day.   I am enjoying my summer courses so much.  It is great to be able to just focus on my courses, as opposed to when I come home from school in the evening.  I am at the tail end of the program, so it has all worked out okay.

Today in our assistive technology class (it is for this course that I have created this blog), we played with the Kurzweil program, a computer program I mentioned yesterday on the blog.  Unfortunately I could not get the program to work for me (I had thought I had it installed properly, but had not checked it since I left Newfoundland).  What a great program.  It was nice also, that Barbara's lesson today reiterated the tutorials that we watched, and then the playing again reinforced it.  I think it is a great piece of software.  We looked up extra information and put in our article, we created test questions, we recorded our voice with info, had questions with places for kids to write the answer, played around with voices, made a library of reference words.  So great!  Hopefully, fingers crossed I can get a version for my class.  I am feeling like the odds are pretty good.

Yesterday the university's internet was down for a bit.  Everything was up and running today, and what a difference it made.  In my other course, it was a drag that I could not look things up, and today, no sweat.  I am so reliant on the easy access to information and resources, that when it is taken away even briefly, it feels like a big drag.

I am going to, after I get off the computer here, try and download an app from the National Film Board, and hopefully will be able to access some of their movies.  I watched Four Feet Up, a brilliant and heartbreaking documentary about a family and their struggle with poverty.  This movie (like most things in my life at the moment, but not complaining, I like it) was for a course.  My professor gave us a list of a few others that I would like to watch over the weekend if possible.  I figured watching on an app would be killing two birds with one stone.  I'll keep you posted.

Well, I am about to call it a night.  Talk tomorrow.

HH