Final Week of Class

I can't believe how fast these 8 weeks have gone! It's been stressful, but I've had a lot of fun and learned a lot in all three classes. In the coming weeks I have a whole bunch of projects that I'll be working on and including various elements from each of the classes: I'm preparing to teach the lab portion of EME4406 Integrating Technology into the Secondary Classroom, I'm creating a Professional Development Workshop that I started last semester, but am going to include more from these classes as well, and I'm fixing up my Dad's publishing company's website, and thinking of including a webquest as well as a few other fun activities to go with his Rockhound Science Mysteries series of books and CD-Roms. (http://www.earthkidspublishing.com)

I've had a lot of fun though, and can't wait for the fall semester! ^_^

Wikis, and Bookmarks and Culminating Activities... Oh my!

Coming up to the last week of class...
Interesting information about Wikis. I've used Wikipedia and a few others for some research, but I haven't made one yet. The info in our readings for this week will come in handy this coming week in my Media in Literacy class though. We're creating Wikis on Tuesday for using media in the classroom. My group is making on Using Sitcoms to teach Narrative. We'll see how that turns out. ^_^

I looooooove Delicious. Social bookmarking is great. So many interesting links from classmates, and I've also subscribed to World Cup tags so I can get all my World Cup background info as it's uploaded to the net.

As for the culminating activity for 5405... I loved the book. Anyone who has any interest in Multiple Intelligences, read Intelligence Reframed. Writing the paper on it was a little rough, but I got through it and I think made enough connection with technology even though the book doesn't really go into detail on it. Thank you to those who read my rough draft for your comments. As I said, it was extremely rough and although I really wasn't in the direction I wanted to be with it, I think some of the things you said helped. ^_^

Post for Week 6

One of the most exciting things I learned this week was how well the subscriptions on delicious works. Bloglines is so much fun to use to look at all of the work the class has been posting on, but I was especially excited today when I logged in and saw that there were 31 websites listed in my UFET subscription. Everything from digital photos to webxact info to webquests were listed. What a great way to share with others that are interested!

As for my final paper. I appreciated some of the comments that I was given on it. It was just a rough draft (where I had three other papers, two powerpoints, a couple of postings and a whole bunch of pictures to take in the same weekend) so obviously I wasn't expecting anything close to perfection from it. The next draft is coming along better especially since I've added a whole bunch of information from a few chapters that were added after the edition that I read based entirely on technology and media. I hope to post that by Wednesday so I can get some feedback before it's due on Sunday.

My only other comment for this week is that I really should not have taken three summer classes at the same time! ^_^