Blog #6 Artifact #1

One aspect that I have chosen to focus on in my artifact is the content. Since there are many different types of autism spectrum disorder, I decided to make a brochure with all the different types of disorders. For the content, I decided to include the signs and symptoms along with if they can be treated or not. Many of the disorders can have the same symptoms, so I also added how they may affect one child one way and another child a different way.

I believe the information that I have included in my artifact is very helpful and would really help parents understand the different disorders better than they know now. With this artifact I have also tried to provide information that would be helpful even for educators to understand and be able to help the children with an autism spectrum disorder better succeed and be comfortable with their disorder. I am really pleased with the brochure at this time and think that it provides really good information that is important for people to know.

Free Write

For my artifacts I plan on connecting them through the information that is provided. For every artifact I am going to work off the previous one. For instance, for my first artifact I am creating a brochure that has all the different types of autism disorders and then information about them. From this artifact I am going to create my second, which is most likely going to be a power point, but I will add additional information and focus more on a child with the disorders in the school setting. My main purpose of this topic is to focus on the development of an autistic child in school, socially, physically, and academically. So, for every artifact that I create I want to work off the previous so that the information that is going to to be represented will not repeat its self. I am hoping that all of my artifacts will connect well with each other, and as of right now I think that they will, but I will have to wait and see if it goes as planned.

Blog #5 Library visit

Visiting the library Thursday really helped me get more information. I was having trouble finding scholarly articles, but with the librarians help and suggestions I was able to find articles that were really helpful with my research. I had a few frustrations because some of the articles I found kept repeating information that I already had. Other than that one frustrating I found the library visit very helpful and I am glad that I went. With the information that I found I will be able to make my artifacts better because my information will provide more information.

Blog # 4 Changes in Project

My project is not the exact same as the first day of class, and some things have changed since I have written my proposal. I have changed my artifacts that I am going to do. I have chosen to do make a power point, a brochure, and make two different journals; one from the point of view of a mother who has a child with autism and one from the point of view of a mother who has a "normal" child. I have found a lot of good information on my topic and am looking forward to creating my first artifact. I think that with my new artifacts I can make this topic a little more fun to research even though it is a very serious topic.

Blog # 3/ Free Write

The biggest struggle I am having right now with my writing assignment is figuring out what type of artifacts that i am going to create. I am having trouble being creative, but I know that if I stop looking and worrying about it for a while I will be able to come up with some good ideas. I am also worried that some information is going to overlap in my artifacts and I do not want that to happen, but I will just have to deal with that when it comes. I am a little worried because I still do not know really what to expect, but I am looking forward to working on my topic and answering some questions that I have and to further my knowledge.