Things are looking good for the website. I think I've got a handle on the site itself. I just need to get approximately 15 extra hours in my day. :) I am just trying to work out how to do the assignment for next week. I'm not sure about how to do the story boards. I am not sure what exactly he is looking for. I've done a few pages on my site. I think I am on the right track.
I am behind on my blogs right now. I missed last week's. I don't know how I feel about it yet. I don't feel that I have much of value to discuss here on my blog, especially things that haven't been said in the discussion boards- by myself or others.
Anyway, have a great week!
Thursday, February 25, 2010
Thursday, February 11, 2010
February 10, 2010
The WebQuest is going well. I think it's about done. Think being the operative word...
I work at the Y one night per week. I was there the other night and we had a meeting scheduled for the next day. We were all complaining about coming in during the middle of the day for less than an hour. I started laughing and said we could do a podcast and listen to the meeting on our regular shifts. I just thought it was funny to have it come up. Actually not a bad idea.... :)
Thanks to everyone who commented on the last post. I appreciate knowing that I am not alone in this confusion. I also appreciate the ideas and tips more than I can say! I'm just going to keep plugging away and do my best. It's really all I can do.
I work at the Y one night per week. I was there the other night and we had a meeting scheduled for the next day. We were all complaining about coming in during the middle of the day for less than an hour. I started laughing and said we could do a podcast and listen to the meeting on our regular shifts. I just thought it was funny to have it come up. Actually not a bad idea.... :)
Thanks to everyone who commented on the last post. I appreciate knowing that I am not alone in this confusion. I also appreciate the ideas and tips more than I can say! I'm just going to keep plugging away and do my best. It's really all I can do.
Monday, February 1, 2010
February 1, 2010
The discussion boards in Vista have me feeling muddled. There are so many discussion going on at once, I am not sure where to reply and most of what I have to say has already been said. I wish that we had one discussion per week rather than trying to wade through five discussions at once. I am better able to focus on and expand on one discussion at a time. Am I the only one feeling this lost? If so, I am in the wrong class....
The WebQuest is underway and off to a decent start. I'm very happy to have changed my focus for the assignment. Butterflies is working much better than bears. So far so...ok. I don't know- we'll see. :) I worked on it for about 6 hours last night.
The webpage is a different story all together! I have no idea where to take that one. I just looked over the assignment page again and I am at a complete loss. Around 1 am last night, I was wondering why in the world I wasn't working on the assignment that was due first. I decided that I just needed to make a dent in something...anything.
I just read over the discussion boards in vista. Everyone has a lot of great ideas for using wikis, blogs, and podcasts in their classrooms (and in business). I really liked the idea about using pseudonyms with discussion boards in the class. The teacher would be the only other person to know the pseudonym. This would allow the students to have some anonymity while discussing various topics with their peers, yet would still hold them accountable to the teacher for any inappropriate comments.
Inappropriate comments has actually been a worry that a number of people have expressed. I think that the teacher needs to be closely monitoring what is being posted as well as discussing expectations before beginning as well as reviewing those expectations often.
Wow! reading back over this post, I sound like Debbie Downer from SNL.
Hopefully can paint a rosier picture later in the week. Perhaps after I figure out my website proposal????? :)
The WebQuest is underway and off to a decent start. I'm very happy to have changed my focus for the assignment. Butterflies is working much better than bears. So far so...ok. I don't know- we'll see. :) I worked on it for about 6 hours last night.
The webpage is a different story all together! I have no idea where to take that one. I just looked over the assignment page again and I am at a complete loss. Around 1 am last night, I was wondering why in the world I wasn't working on the assignment that was due first. I decided that I just needed to make a dent in something...anything.
I just read over the discussion boards in vista. Everyone has a lot of great ideas for using wikis, blogs, and podcasts in their classrooms (and in business). I really liked the idea about using pseudonyms with discussion boards in the class. The teacher would be the only other person to know the pseudonym. This would allow the students to have some anonymity while discussing various topics with their peers, yet would still hold them accountable to the teacher for any inappropriate comments.
Inappropriate comments has actually been a worry that a number of people have expressed. I think that the teacher needs to be closely monitoring what is being posted as well as discussing expectations before beginning as well as reviewing those expectations often.
Wow! reading back over this post, I sound like Debbie Downer from SNL.
Hopefully can paint a rosier picture later in the week. Perhaps after I figure out my website proposal????? :)
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