Another Week and Another Reflection

Dr. Smidt was right, "It's better late than never". Last week we had a visit from one of our local librarians and even though we had already finished the first draft of our annotated bibliographies I found the visit to be very helpful. It was helpful not only because we will have to do research for other classes, but I think that by knowing more about the details of the MSU database we might find an article for our Multi-Genre project that we had overlooked before. I've been visited by these librarians before in other classes, but since this was more specific to our current needs it helped to make me aware of information that I hadn't been privy (I think that's the first time I've ever used that word) to before.

A couple of other things that we did last week was Rachel's presentation and working on our classmate's example lesson plans. The presentation was done pretty well because I think it got most of the class to think about the readings and it was also fun, but the danger of having the men compete against the women is that sometimes the competition can make things get a little out of hand. I thought that working on another group's lesson plan was interesting because it helped to show our group a different way of attacking a lesson plan and it allowed us to work with new ideas which was helpful.