Week Fourteen: Are You a Trypto Phan?

I hope no one is still sleepy from the Thanksgiving Feast. Well, two weeks left and you still have some work to do! I really hope some of you were able to get some film shot as it will save you a few trips back to the university! The goal for next week is to ensure we have all of your artifacts loaded for TaskStream and then we will watch the cool movies you made!

What is still due: Inspiration & Journals 6-10 (to include the web 2.0 evaluation), edTechProfile-Post, TaskStream (finish narratives for II-VI), iMovie Software proficiency (if you haven't already turned it in) and your social justice group movies.

I was successful in securing the Pub Drive for this class. When you are on campus, do this:
1) Do Go > Connect to Server
2) Enter "afp://afp1" and click OK.
3) login using the info above(using your CSUSM password). You'll see a list of shares.
4) Choose the jheil share and click OK.

This way, everyone can store movie files and anyone in the group can access the content. As this is public, please ensure you title your folders specifically, so no one accidentally gets into your content!!

I will also try to come to campus next Monday to help anyone who might need assistance with things past due. . .


This week's Question: What has been your favorite assignment to date and why? Feel free to do the same for your least favorite!

Week Twelve: Almost . . .Finished!

I'm sure the craziness of the last few weeks has made it hard to make Ed422 a priority in your life; however, we are almost finished. Don't lose steam or become frustrated now. . .you've gone to far. The time off didn't affect the fact I was going to ask you to work on Excel and Inspiration on your own. . .so nothing has really changed, you've just had more time to stress ;-)

On a positive note. . .my wife completed the 3-Day Breast Cancer Walk! They raised over 12 million dollars this year!!!!!!!!!!!!

This week: I will introduce the social justice movie project, discuss what we have left, and give you some time to work on your software proficieny assignment.

Still Working: You have the Excel assignment, Journal's 6-10 (to include the web 2.0 assignment as a journal entry), and the Inspiration/Kidspiration/InspireData project. I added some new instructions about saving the projects (making the journal entry optional). For Inspiration/Kidspiration I would like you to export your assignment as a .jpg, which makes it easy to share. For InspireData, it seems you can only export the data table. So, if you do InspireData, perhaps you can take a screenshot/printscreen pasted into a Word document to share with your peers. Don't make this harder than it has to be. . .it's more about becomming a student who is exploring a new technology tool.

Journal's 6-10: you should have plenty of options. . .the new L&L, Web 2.0, or other sources.

This week's question: I have noticed that a few of you have been forgetting to comment on the question. . .please don't forget! For this week, I want to know what your all-time favorite book is (or your current favorite)! Why is it your favorite?

Week Eleven: Back to Normalcy?

Halloween is over, the candy is waning, and I hope that y'all are ready to get back to work. Hopefully, everyone has been working independently and keeping up with our workload.

This week: I am going to go over how to to use iMovie and everyone is going to create what could be your first video masterpiece!
If time permits, we will also discuss the actual movie project that you will be completing in small groups. If you haven't requested your v-drive, please go to the link from the last entry and request a v-drive. This will come in handy as it will allow you to work on any computer on campus to work on video. Without it, you will be forced to work on the same computer you began editing on.

Journals 7-10: I gave you an assignment in week 8 for journal 6; for 7 & 8, you could choose an article from the November issue of L&L. Also, I would like you to pick a technology from the Classroom 2.0 website, choose a link from the tools list on the right hand column for a technology that interests you, and follow a discussion or two that relates to your technology. In the title bar, put journal 9 follwed by the technology you have chosen. (For example: Journal 9: Microblogging). In the journal, I would like you to define the technology and then report out on what you learned from the tool discussion and read and comment on at least three peers who have chosen a different tool. You reporting out should contain the 200-250 word minumum, but you do not need to ask and answer questions. In the assignments section, you will submit your peers names.

This week's question: I want to follow-up on last week's question. Many of you seemed to accept that tracking is a valid way to sort children in schools. (I am very sceptical as to how people get classified.) What I want to know is why is it, in San Diego County, that White and Asian students are overrepresented in GATE (a greater percentage in GATE than they represent in the school population), while Latino, African American, and Native American students are underrepresented in GATE (lower percentage in GATE than they represent in the school population)? Is it the classification system, innate intelligence or something else?