Shasmeen - Blog 3

    

    Welcome to another AEP Blog! AEP this week was fairly relaxed, and I was able to keep up with the lessons even with a lot of technical issues.

    First of all, I have to explain why none of my other blogs are published. I'm actually not sure why, but all I know is that sometimes I'm locked from editing or publishing my blogs if I close the tab and don't come back for a long period of time. I'm hoping that I'll be able to publish this one!

    Okay, onto this week's classes. I had been able to wake up much earlier than usual, so I had quite a long time to prepare for class. This is somewhat a good thing for me, since I take a long time to fully wake up

    Once the meet had been started, I joined quickly and went over to Typeshift. Most of my blogs (counting the ones from last year), mention that I enjoy playing Typeshift. Well, there was no difference today! I finished well enough at a minute and 53 seconds.

    While typing in my time on the Google Sheets, Miss Disa started the lesson with our entrance ticket. I went over to Miro to see three sticky notes: on each one were "friend", "mate", and "partner". We were told to write down our understanding of each of the words under their respective sticky note. Me, Meral, and Chloe got to work immediately. 

    After we were all done writing our definitions, Miss Disa gave a more visual and in-depth explanation on each of the words. By drawing the relationships out, it surely was much easier for all of us to understand them. A friend is someone you are properly acquainted with, while a mate is someone you are much more casual and well acquainted with.

    Now, we started talking about the definition of "partner". Miss Disa explained that partners are people one is in a romantic relationship with (or maybe the both of you are cowboys, who knows?). This is a convenient word, because it might be one is in the situation that they don't want to give too much information on their partner's background. It also may apply to gender neutral people, people who are not sure of their gender identity or are more like themselves by identifying as such. 

    I have a lot of online friends and a few real life friends who identify as non-binary (a more common term for gender neutral). One of them fluctuated between gender identities, too. I really appreciate that this topic was brought up by Miss Disa clearly and with good meaning.

    We then started our assessments for the day. Like a few weeks ago, we had a matching activity for the topic words in the lesson. We all finished fast enough as we were familiar with this type of work. We read our answers out loud, and Miss went on to explain the differences between "estate" and "inheritance". 

    Before, I always thought that the two were interchangeable and meant the same thing, but that wasn't the case. Apparently, an estate is the all of the property, which includes money, furniture, pets, jewelry, and other worldly items being given to a person or group. Inheritance, on the other hand, is a portion of all possessions that is handed over to close family and friends.

     After those two activities, our ten minute break gave us a good rest from the screen.

   When the ten minutes were over, the next assessment was to read a paragraph on how parents should treat their adult children. I found the topic interesting and skimmed the text immediately. We were only given 30 seconds to read it, but I already started before I noticed the timer hadn't started, oops!

    The timer dinged to signal the end of our allotted reading time, and Miss Disa hid the paragraph. We were instructed to write a short summary of the text. I finished mine quickly, and looked over at the others'. Once everyone was finished, Miss made corrections and suggestions as to how to make our summaries more precise. Mine was already very short, so I thought about adding something before deciding against it, to keep my interpretation clear.

    At last, we had reached our last activity for the day. Miss allowed us to choose how we would like to do it using a poll. If you couldn't tell from my classmate's blogs, I was the one who chose the individual option. I chose the one I was most comfortable with, but I would be okay with the result if it wasn't individual. A few seconds later, it was concluded that we would be doing the last activity as a team.

    I went back over to Miro, and I noticed something weird was happening to my mouse cursor. It was jittering wildly. This had happened a few times before. In a panic, I rushed to shut down my laptop before I remembered I was in class. I told Meral using my tablet that my touchpad might be damaged and that I might miss the end of AEP. She told me that she would inform Miss Disa.

    After that problem had been solved, I checked around my touchpad if there had been any water. There was. A small droplet possibly from my nearby water bottle had made it's way onto my laptop. Quickly wiping it off, I continued to inspect if any more droplets had come near.

    A few more minutes of checking I was able to confirm that my laptop could be switched on again. But, of course, I had missed the last minutes of AEP! Nevertheless, I still went over to Miro to complete my Exit Ticket.

    And that concludes this Blog. Thank you so much for reading!