Oct. 31

I can't believe the week has come and gone. It has been very busy at work. We all feel somewhat overwhelmed with all the new stuff they have added to us. I was glad to get my Survey Monkey completed and submitted. I hope to use it Thursday in my class. I want to figure out to get responses attached to an individual response so I can have the results per student without having to physically print and grade. I am using it for a test over energy in Science. I also got my response to the first discussion question posted. I hope to complete a lot today, Saturday.

Oct 24

It is lunch time and I wanted to catch up so I am writing on my blog. Today we evaluated five webquest sites and shared our two worse and two favorites with the class. We had to evaluate the site according to our role. Some were looking at the technology aspects, some the higher level thinking it provided, some how much time it took, and others whether it lended itself to colloboration. It was interesting taking on a specific role when evaluating. Your perspective did make a difference and it led to great discussion to come to an agreement for the overall best and worse. Before this class began we received several assignments to complete. First, we were given a Monkey Survey to complete. We had to submit it and go onto the discussion board at Lesley and tell how we thought that would be useful in our classroom and/or district. We also had to respond to a couple of peoples opinions of this tool. Second we had a scavenger hunt to complete that helped us learn about the internet, websites, etc. We had to drop our scavenger hunt in the drop box. Finally, we had to read an article about webquests and it provided some links to templates, etc. We have to do a webquest for our midterm and final project. We had homework last night and she took it up today, graded/made comments. It was storyboarding. We are going to use the info we researched and collected last night, on the storyboard, to produce our web page using Dream Weaver.

Oct. 24

Today we did several activities in our class. In one activity we interviewed another person and then had to introduce them to the class. As others were introduced, we took notes. Later we had to ask a person, whose name we drew from a bag, two questions through the email address they supplied. We then had to respond to the questions we received and finally, we posted under the discussion board the list of skills this activity involved and how we thought we could use this activity in our classroom. We learned how to create and join a mailing list for our grad co-hort group. We also learned how to social bookmark using delicious.com. Last, but not least, we created this blog where we will record our thoughts and activities for the week throughout this class. (I wish this had a spell check!)

Oct 24

Today is the first day of class and I feel a little stressed because one of our assignments didn't work quickly and I am still not sure I am on the mailing list for the class. I am concerned that I will miss some news that is important. Hopefully when I go back my welcome message will be there and I can officially reply to the group.