KStudent WP Test Blog # 2

Well tonight marks the end of week number four and the start of week number five. Since the terms are only ten weeks I am already half way through my second term. I got my paper from week 3 back today from my Composition teacher and I made a 89 on it . I know that is a high B and I should not be down about it, but that is the lowest grade I made in my college career and it bums me out just to be honest. I knew writing was not my strong suite, any of you who have followed the sites I work on for any amount of time can attest to that sad but true fact. I guess I just have to work harder on the next one is all I can do now.

My Foundations in Information Technology class is going well. The “maual” we are having to write, adding more parts to each week is now at 33 pages and 6,998 works and counting. That includes the cover page and three pages of sources from my research. I thought I had jumped in way over my head after the first week or two in this class, but the further along I get the better I feel about things.

I got my personal Facebook page up now, only have a few friends on it as of now so is a case of art imatating life I guess. I have had my Twitter up, but I do more with the business twitter than mu personal one. Just for the He#% of it my personal twitter is @KStudent and the business is @almobile . I do not know if any of you care to even know that but I am putting it out there cause hey…. this is MY Blog lol. Freedom of speach is a wonderful thing.

I have been playing with the new Dreamweaver CS4 and the rest of the goodies in my Adobe Creative Suite Web Premium and you can click the link to see what all it has. I just have 2 comments on it.

1. Why did I not get this LONG AGO?
2. The new Dreamweaver and Photoshop Extended alone is worth the price of admission

OK well I guess I am going to have to get me some sleep tonight. See all of you in blogville some other time, check back for more of my mindless ramblings another day.

OK, it has been a little while sine I made a post so I figured it was time for a little update. It is already week # 4 in my second term at Kaplan University and we only have 10 weeks per term. This term I have College Composition for IT majors and Foundations in Information Technology. These two classes may not be as fun to me as say my first term web design class was, but that is most likely because they are a lot like work and the web design was much more like ummm well fun to me. Writing is one of those things you do not think about much, until the day comes that the professor says “class you have an essay due in two weeks and here is your topic…..WRITE”. That is when it becomes something you start to ponder and for me when the writers block kicks in. The first essay we did was a narrative essay so was pretty much just telling a story from our own life, no real research was needed and you have very loose guidelines to go by. This one I have to start on now however is a process essay where you have to take the reader through the steps in a process. This was all fine to me and I had the great Idea, “hey since I know some about web design I can do a paper on making a website, maybe tell the differences in just a regular HTML/XHTML page and a Content Management System like I use on KStudent.com/x/ and ALMobileHome.com. Then when the professor said it needed to be two to three pages and not over 5 I had to rethink that quickly, so I will be telling how to make a very basic web-page for say family and friends to look at and keep up with what is new in your life (Kinda like a blog page). That I am hoping I can keep to the 2 -3 page limit he suggested and surely under the 5 he said do not go over period.

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This is the first post to my WordPress Blog. After having a blog on wordpresses site I decided to manually load one onto my hosts server. I am going to use this mainly for school purposes. To see more about the school I attend and all see that About page. I will also be able to ransfer posts from my blog at srkap.blogspot.com to here as well a very sweet function. I think since I have more control over this and I can add in any widget or plugin I want I may use this as my main blog from now on. I also may put a Multi-User of Wordpress on my server for other students of Kaplan University, if I find any that are intrested and would use. If you are a student and would make use of this just let me know in a email. Well is late and I have more reading to do and then is off to sleep.

I finished a Online Web Seminar earlier called 50 Online Job Sites by Debra Yergen. She is a very smart person and has some very good pointers on how to get out there and get hired in the IT ( Information Technology ) Field. You can check out her blog by clicking here . She and the rest of the speakers at the Kaplan Online Seminars always have such great information to help us along the way. I also got my grade for my first term Web Design class and I ended up with a 99, so I could not be happier. Hey… I know it was Introduction to web design, but you may be surprised to see how many completely bombed in the class, I know that I was. I look toward this new term with excitement and anticipation. I know that this education I am working on will better enable me to give my children the things that they need and some of what they want as well as allow my wife to be the “stay at home mom” she really deserves also. Thank you for taking the time to read my little blog here, if you want to email me you may do so by the link in the footer, or by clicking here.

Well all my final projects have been turned in, but the actual end date for my first term at Kaplan University will be Wednesday! I must admit I was more than a little anxious in the beginning. Being a 30 year old married father if 2 kids , one a 4 month old baby boy I had something to fight for and to inspire me to do better. As of now I have a 99 in both classes, so if the finals go good I should end the term with high A’s. I know it will not always be easy but it will always be worth it.