Well, I finally made it. Yes, I have completed my training module and finished the semester. We had our last class last night, where everyone talked about their projects, what they did, what went well, what didn't, and what they learned from the whole processes over the last two semesters. It was quite interesting, and everyone seemed to have some of the same problems. I wasn't the only one who planned big last semester. Pretty much everyone had to focus their project scope a bit this semester. Everyone's projects went through some pretty significant changes from their original plans as well. There were some pretty cool projects too. I'm just really happy this project is now done. I've been putting a lot of work into it the past few weeks, and it's cool to see the final product. My end report for the class was a wapping 140 pages, oh yeah...

This week's good for another reason. I'm finally credit card debt free! I've been working like mad the last few months to get rid of this debt, and I've finally succeeded. Yay! Now on to savings and student loans...

Work has been really busy lately too. I've met with a couple customers again, and things are working out well. They're learning a ot, and I'm learning more about teaching, and what I don't know or remember in certain programs. I use Kurzweil myself, but don't regularly use some of the shortcuts and commands people have asked about, so I'm trying to refresh my memory on some of those things.

I'm also working on some training and reference materials for library staff. We decided it would be a good idea to have some basic documentation for staff on how to get people started with each of the programs. I'm making a few documents with some basic instructions and requirements staff should know to get customers started. Most of the programs aren't too bad. It's pretty simple to learn the basics in Magic and Kurzweil. Jaws might be a little more tricky though. It's easily the most complicated program to learn and use, since most people don't use the keyboard.

I'm also still working on outreach. I'm attending a presentation this afternoon at MCIL on some assistive technology, voice recognician software I think. I want to learn more about this topic, and it will be a great way to let peple know what we have, and start networking with MCIL. I'm also working on an article/press release that we can put in various newsletters advertising our assistive technology.

The AU committee met on Monday to go over all of our raw video footage and see what we had. For a couple minute video, we have a lot of video footage, a little over an hour. Now it's on to writing a script, and figuring out how to piece everything together, the hard part in my opinion. The video is now being used as an intro piece to our toolkit we're developing. We found out that our proposal for the CTCNet Conference was rejected, so we can slow down a bit and refocus our plans a bit. Our current plan is to finish the video and put together the toolkit. This will keep us plenty busy until the end of the year. I'm glad we can slow down some now.

Our committee roles have changed a bit too. One of our committee members has accepted a new job, so will be leaving next week. We also have a new committee head. For the next couple of months I'll be taking over the role of secretary, and the last couple of months I'll be the new committee head. I'm not too excited about being the leader, but I suppose it's good experience.

Aside from all that, I'm starting the job hunt again. August wil be here very soon, so I should start looking now. I haven't yet decided whether I'll stay in CTEP for another year yet or not. Either way, I've learned and done a lot. This weekend I plan to hopefully just relax a bit and enjoy the nice weather.