Week 5

Not too sure where time has gone but this semester has flown... got my grade and not to happy that my lack of responding to every ones everything hurt my grade that much... guess it is what it is... but not happy about it.  Still very interested in the class but thinking that we have a tremendous amount of work due for next week... a little apprehensive about it as I have never designed a web page and we only had about a 10-12 minute introduction as to how to use the new software... should prove to be an interesting week.

My partner and I spent several hours working on this project between Saturdays nd Sunday... a tremendous amount of time and we are no where near done... getting a little bit nervous about getting it all done, guess I know what I'll be doing tonight... lol

Week 4

It has been an interesting ride this semester. I can't believe that it is week 4 already, and presentations were a week ago... had a good time with the presentation thought about a few ways we could have improved on ours, that is what this is about right... improving our skills??? Anyway, I have fallen behind on my comments, I am finding that more cumbersome than any other aspect of this course is posting to everyone’s everything and having to try to remember when the heck you left off. If I could change one thing about this course it would be that... maybe instead of having to read everyone’s... like respond to a specific number... just an idea.

It was clear last week that not all are comfortable in front of an audience, I hope that those individuals overcome that soon... as educators that is what we do is to put on a dog and pony show every day and you can't let people intimidate you... hopefully it was just because it was in front of peers and not kids... many people are more nervous in front of people their own age or older rather than kids... I hope this is the case or student teaching is going to be difficult for them... keeping my fingers crossed =)

Week 3... presentation night

It has been a fun filled week full of extra work and technological headaches.  Allow me to explain... Ok so I knew that Google Doc's would record the data from our survey, and when I found the spreadsheet I thought that was all it would do.... soooo I spent hours, yes hours counting and tallying the answers for the entire survey so that we could take that data and utilize it for our presentation... only to find the summary button after I had spent all that time, which gave me all the data I had just spent all day trying to procure... sigh lesson learned, know your software better, lesson learned. 


2nd pit fall we had was with posting the said link to our forum, I wasn't aware of the privacy setting of both C-tools and additionally of G-Mail so after I thoughtI had it right... no go... 2 attempts later we figured out the problems and have rectified them... but only after we were all stumped...


Getting ready for the presentation... see ya all soon =)

End of week one... Oye Vey

Survived week one... sigh.  Ok... so apparently bloggster freaked out and dumped all our stuff, gotta love technology, but that is actually a good thing... how you may ask??? cause it is the real world... crap happens, especially when dealing with technology, it doesn't always work as we have planned, the schools internet could go down and mess up your lesson plans if you don't have a backup plan, the moral of the story... have a plan A and a plan B sometimes even a plan C... if it's really a bad day.  I am concerned that my group is only one of 2 that posted their annotated bibliography, I am wondering and second guessing myself if I did it properly and posted to the proper location, I guess I will know in a few hours. 

See ya all in class... =)

Day one and counting...

Day one of class... found it to be very interesting and I am excited about us being used as a Beta test group for the fall term and intrigued by the idea that we could be used as facilitators in the fall should we choose to stay on.  Learned to use Type With Me and participated in the writing of the expectations for the next assignment, which is the annotated bibliography.  I had never written one before so we had to research what it actually was, decided it is a very valuable tool and I will be incorporating it into my future work. Class went by quickly, despite the whining of some of the students whining about the uncertainness of the class as we are developing it as we go, I personally have a low threshold for that especially from adults.  I believe that this will be a good experience as it is what the real world is... non scripted... there is the stuff you learn in college and there is real life, rarely if ever do they actually mirror each other and I am excited to see how the course plays out.