WK3: Think out loud Blog Post 1

I am looking at the Publishing Leadership Project, and as I reflect on the fallacy I have labored under for 2 weeks that this was an optional project, I think to myself where the H311 Did I get this information from!! It reminds me of the value of good information, the disaster of operating under faulty information, and the blessing God has given me to have this degree the level of seriousness for this program thus far. It is truly been a ride and a few years ago, it would have eaten me alive!

But I digress…

After chatting with "Instructor B". over the parameters of the project, I am able to shake my procedural bout of “pre-project” butterflies about this thing and get into it with the same zeal I have been doing everything non-Lit Review the last year.

As I reflect on my path in the CBR, I thought very much about the twists and turns I have taken in my CBR and I would very much like to spend a little more time going into a potential course of action for a Phase Three based on the challenges that I have observed based in my research. It would be a perfect way to add some form of personal commentary in a type of research that does not allow for any. I thought about speaking to some of that here but did a 180, as it would negate the need for me to do the Project and I would still have to do it anyway.

...Irony at it’s finest.
JCIII 

Wk 1 Wimba: (EMDTMS-MAC-June 2011)

Wow, The home stretch!

Strangely enough, having had my Lit Review approved last month does not make me relaxed about all the Blogging required in this month, even though the writing styling of my Blog is much less strict. I think my concern with that is the one I ususally have with any of my classes with a large amount of things due- finishing everything dues and doing so on time.

I find it odd that I am somewhat facinated at the Publishing Leadership Project and the possibility of having my work published, though I can't fully embrace it yet, knowing full well the degree of difficulty that my lit Review has given me, still, EMDT has taught me the lesson of not letting experiences count for nothing, so.........

I considering.

coffee, commercialism, computers, and commentary

12:noon 11/12/10

ATTENTION: PC police…. this post is stereotype laced…Just thought I’d warn you…that is all!


The Walden books of Barnes and Nobles…………

I am waiting to have my Mac looked at and since I am an hour early, I find myself once again drawn to the siren song of the book store…not the intellectual haven one might find in San Marco, in some cozy, slightly mildew scented nook with a old gray haired caretaker who looks like he might smell like hemp (I am not intellectual NOR hip enough for that store)…

No, my stop is that yuppie heaven/java bean bastion of commercialism addicting Voracious reader everywhere…(Drum roll Please……………) Barnes and Noble!!!

I admit it; I am a media junkie.  Over the last couple of years I have found myself drawn to the nearest B&N or Walden Books, or Borders ,Mac Store, Best Buy, Comp USA, Circuit City or the like whenever I am nearby.  Today, it's B&N based solely on vicinity. It’s one of the few places I can loiter, thumb through books I will not purchase, make my self comfy on the furniture AND expect a yummy super small, caffeine laced quadruple toffee mocha something supreme (with soy) .Though I benefit, I still marvel at their commitment to customer service to the point of allowing us to freeload.

One might think by the post above that I am somehow anti-bookstore…. quite the contrary…my frequency of visit is a testament to my love of the Media “all you can eat”. Though I must admit I used to come in to look through comic books (excuse me, graphic Novels!) then I started thumbing through computer software learn-its, then I moved to autobiographies then I got to the point where I could come in, have an amaretto or a Venti something, sit in the Grandpa’s chair and skim the afternoon away on something with words in it.

Who knew after all this college studies focused on images, color and computer, that I still had a little bit of a love affair with words…(and a tall coffee of course)