Today I read the reviews of My Wiki for the class and implemented the changes that had been suggested. I needed to post my timeline to this blog because not everyone could open it from the timeline site.
With the exception of one or two more rereads of the Curriculum Project prior to final posting, I think I am about done with coursework for EDUC 553.
Lorin
Saturday, February 27, 2010
Sunday, February 21, 2010
A snowy afternoon
We did not go to Grand Island yesterday due to possible weather conditions, so I decided to work on class assignments. I managed to lock myself out of the class Wiki site by pushing an incorrect button and now I am waiting for Jackie to let me back into it. I am working on using the Timeline tool that I selected, but do not want to do to much to it at this point.
It is still snowing at about 1315 and I will probably wait to do the sidewalks and driveway until 1600 or so.
It is still snowing at about 1315 and I will probably wait to do the sidewalks and driveway until 1600 or so.
Sunday, February 14, 2010
Daytona 500 Sunday
Took yesterday off from working on class stuff. I cannot get into the week 6 assignment yet, had to wait for access to the Wiki site. Requested that this morning before going to church.
Friday my brother in law and I took our wives out for supper and then to the Home and Gardens show in Lincoln. We do this every year. The ladies birthdays are the previous week and Valentine's is today so it all kind of works out to their benefit.
I have watched some of the video's that were recommended prior to starting your first Wiki experience and found them interesting. The thing I am wondering about is if our IT folks would allow our office staff to have a Wiki just to share information among ourselves. Knowing our IT folks, it will probably be a "security issue" it usually is.
I am going to head back to the blackboard site to see if I can get on to the next step.
Later
Did not get on to the Wiki Site until Monday. It was a holiday for State Employees, so I had the day off. My wife and oldest daughter went shopping in Lincoln so I had the place to myself.
Spent the morning looking at a variety of tools from the Site and decided on one that said it would convert PDFs which I use a lot of at work and know that teachers in the local system reference and copy them a lot, so it sounded like a great tool to use. There are a number of them available. Goofed around looking at several, one that really looked attractive had some pretty poor reviews on the internet, but I tried it any way. It took over one hour of uploading time for a 1 page document. I decided that I could re type or dictate faster than that.
Decided to change gears and went with a program to do time lines with. It looks very appropriate for a world history class. Did not see any adult only signs, which I did see on the French site that I was looking at for converting documents to Word.
I have to go back to work tonight to do some investigative interviews and need to be back there by 5 in the morning to do more.
Closing for now. Hope the rest of the class has more time to work on academic subjects this week than I do. I do not have the heart to tell the grand kids that they can't go with grandpa to Grand Island this weekend. May be I should take a class in scheduling.
Lorin
Friday my brother in law and I took our wives out for supper and then to the Home and Gardens show in Lincoln. We do this every year. The ladies birthdays are the previous week and Valentine's is today so it all kind of works out to their benefit.
I have watched some of the video's that were recommended prior to starting your first Wiki experience and found them interesting. The thing I am wondering about is if our IT folks would allow our office staff to have a Wiki just to share information among ourselves. Knowing our IT folks, it will probably be a "security issue" it usually is.
I am going to head back to the blackboard site to see if I can get on to the next step.
Later
Did not get on to the Wiki Site until Monday. It was a holiday for State Employees, so I had the day off. My wife and oldest daughter went shopping in Lincoln so I had the place to myself.
Spent the morning looking at a variety of tools from the Site and decided on one that said it would convert PDFs which I use a lot of at work and know that teachers in the local system reference and copy them a lot, so it sounded like a great tool to use. There are a number of them available. Goofed around looking at several, one that really looked attractive had some pretty poor reviews on the internet, but I tried it any way. It took over one hour of uploading time for a 1 page document. I decided that I could re type or dictate faster than that.
Decided to change gears and went with a program to do time lines with. It looks very appropriate for a world history class. Did not see any adult only signs, which I did see on the French site that I was looking at for converting documents to Word.
I have to go back to work tonight to do some investigative interviews and need to be back there by 5 in the morning to do more.
Closing for now. Hope the rest of the class has more time to work on academic subjects this week than I do. I do not have the heart to tell the grand kids that they can't go with grandpa to Grand Island this weekend. May be I should take a class in scheduling.
Lorin
Sunday, February 7, 2010
Super Bowl Sunday afternoon
I had some time on my hands, so I finished the Calendar for the Unit, and placed it on the website.
Here is the site if anyone is looking for something to do.
http://assignaday.4teachers.org/teachers/AssignmentManager.php?calendar_id=256346
The Calendar site is pretty basic, but it will give students a heads up about what is going to occur on a given day. It will need edited with names of students when it comes time to do the presentations.
Lorin
Here is the site if anyone is looking for something to do.
http://assignaday.4teachers.org/teachers/AssignmentManager.php?calendar_id=256346
The Calendar site is pretty basic, but it will give students a heads up about what is going to occur on a given day. It will need edited with names of students when it comes time to do the presentations.
Lorin
Lorin's Presentation
I had put a lot of work into the presentation in Power Point. I played around with Prezi, but it did not seem to meet my needs, or I am very linear and did not like the format. My wife and children would say that I am "ridgid" and do not like to change.
I placed the PPT into Google docs and it is there for any one to look at who has the address.
This is Super Bowl Sunday and I do not want to stay in front of the computer all day.
The grandkids from Grand Island could not come because of the weather, but may come back next weekend for a Nebraska basketball game.
I placed the PPT into Google docs and it is there for any one to look at who has the address.
This is Super Bowl Sunday and I do not want to stay in front of the computer all day.
The grandkids from Grand Island could not come because of the weather, but may come back next weekend for a Nebraska basketball game.
Saturday, February 6, 2010
lesson plan response
I've been working on class stuff today. Wrote a response to a lesson plan and sent it in, tried to copy it here to the blog and ran into all kinds of messages why I could not post it. Tried saving my document as text only and got the same response.
Lorin
Lorin
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Week 4
I have placed a link for my rubric and trackstar on my curriculum website. I am home this morning trying to get some work done. I want to get to work by 10 to participate in a webinar.
Lorin
Lorin
Monday, February 1, 2010
Lorin attempting to blog
I developed my first rubric today. It is located at http://rubistar.4teachers.org/index.php?screen=ShowRubric&module=Rubistar&rubric_id=1857149&
I will be adding a hyperlink to the blog site and to the curriculum site for this item.
I am going to work an alternate schedule for a few days to try to get ahead on the assignments for the class. My grandkids from Grand Island will be here this weekend and I do not intend to be locked up in this office. Grandma is turning 61 and needs a birthday party with the grandkids.
I will be adding a hyperlink to the blog site and to the curriculum site for this item.
I am going to work an alternate schedule for a few days to try to get ahead on the assignments for the class. My grandkids from Grand Island will be here this weekend and I do not intend to be locked up in this office. Grandma is turning 61 and needs a birthday party with the grandkids.
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