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Module 4 Progress Report

This week I am currently still at the reading phase of the research.  It’s a comfortable place for me in my journey.  This week alone I was able to gather more material that will help me learn more about AAC technologies.  Amy had pointed out early in the quarter the search engine Carrot2, and this week I have utilized the search feature to help with my research journey. Not only did it help point out more articles that could be useful for me to look at, but I also used the “tree map” feature as a mind map that helped introduce other branches and side topics I could potentially add to my research and reading. Below is a screen shot of the tree map results from Carrot2 when I searched for AAC technologies.


This week I did not have any issues, and hopefully it will stay that way for a while.  Next week I hope to have weeded out what articles and topics are not relevant, so I can focus on finding what I really need for rounding out the content for my research paper.


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