Cheryl McCoy

The presentation by Cheryl McCoy was much more effective in person than recorded. When someone isn't there I tend to dose off and not may attention as much as I would if the person was physically there. You don't want to disrespect the person giving the presentation because if you were up there, you would want the students attention.

Unfortunately I couldn't follow along with her because the computer I was at wasn't working nor was the one next to me. Upon taking a few notes here and there, and trying to pay attention, I was able to retain a good amount of helpful information.

She taught a lot about public records that will be helpful in our project of researching a public official. The marriage, birth, and property certifications will be helpful in guiding me to other information about Mark Sharpe. A problem I seem to run into is that a lot of the sites try to charge for everything.

Cheryl seems to be a very genuine and caring person. I feel like she would love to help us anytime she can. I get that sense that a lot of teachers say they want to help, but when it comes down to it they take a week and a half to return an email. Don't even get me started on them giving out their office phone number.

I felt a sense of relief when she showed us exactly how to find out information about the public meetings. Last Thursday Tim told us about the rule of meetings between two public officials, but as far as I can remember never gave us the information on where they show it. Cheryl saved much of the class stress near the end of the semester when we all realize that we have to go to some of these meetings.

I'm glad the information is out there for us. Now we just have to figure out how navigate through all the records and information we've been given. I'm sure it will take some getting used to, but once we become accustom, it will be a piece of cake.