Wednesday, December 18, 2013
EDLD 5363 Group Video Project
Working with this group has been a dream. Everyone pulling their weight and working to get the project done makes everything so much easier. We used email, Google Drive, and GoToMeeting.com to collaborate and plan our project. The jobs and assignment parts were divided up early on and each of us got our part done with time to spare. Working with a group typically does not sound fun to me. With this group I felt differently. The "many hands make light work" adage rang true this time around.
EDLD 5363 reflection of web conferences
November 20, 2103
Last Wednesday was my very first live web conference. Preferring to watch the conference recording at a later date, I had never before attended one. The session began with greetings and welcomes all around. The sound did not work. Therefore chat was the tool used to communicate. It seemed difficult to have your questions answered because once you typed them in they seemed to disappear or get lost in the shuffle. Twitter was a hot topic of discussion. While this social media tool is optional many students agreed that it was a useful tool for educators to communicate, collaborate, and learn. I have had a Twitter account for awhile. I began using it for professional development purposes after attending the ISTE conference over the summer. The active educator Twitter users put out so many wonderful tools, resources, and ideas daily. I learn a great deal from scrolling through a few 140 character tweets. There were lots of questions over assignment details. With a syllabus, weekly overview, and assignment document the details of each week's expectations can be overwhelming. Not everything matches up and getting points taken away is never fun. Students try to avoid this by asking questions and sometimes answers are just as vague as the original directions. The web conference was a good place to have questions answered. It also helped me realize I am no alone in this endeavor, and that feels good.
December 1, 2013
During this web conference the cameras and sound were working unlike the last web conference I attended. There were a few questions about weeks one and two. Then we moved into week three. There were lots of questions about this week's requirements. This week we were informed that in January if we are not seen on camera and our voice is not heard on the web conferences we will not receive credit. This is new and will force me to at least shower before web conferences. We were told of a new-to-me resource, paper.li, which is a way to cultivate your own online digital newspaper. I think I will look into that this week. It seems interesting. As I do more of these web conferences I get more and more comfortable.
December 18, 2013
Tonight was my last web conference for EDLD 5363. That means the class is coming to a close. The web conference was supposed to begin at 7:00. Sitting here at 7:30 the conference still hadn't started. A bit after 7:30 the conference finally started. The tardiness was never acknowledged. There were lots of questions as our Instructional Associate emailed us earlier telling us to hold off on submitting the week five assignment until they had decided the best way to do so. The professor did not share this idea. She told us to submit the same way we had in week three with updates added. This made sense to me and made everything a bit more simple. I just wish this had been in the course overview or at least in the week 4/5 assignment documents.
Last Wednesday was my very first live web conference. Preferring to watch the conference recording at a later date, I had never before attended one. The session began with greetings and welcomes all around. The sound did not work. Therefore chat was the tool used to communicate. It seemed difficult to have your questions answered because once you typed them in they seemed to disappear or get lost in the shuffle. Twitter was a hot topic of discussion. While this social media tool is optional many students agreed that it was a useful tool for educators to communicate, collaborate, and learn. I have had a Twitter account for awhile. I began using it for professional development purposes after attending the ISTE conference over the summer. The active educator Twitter users put out so many wonderful tools, resources, and ideas daily. I learn a great deal from scrolling through a few 140 character tweets. There were lots of questions over assignment details. With a syllabus, weekly overview, and assignment document the details of each week's expectations can be overwhelming. Not everything matches up and getting points taken away is never fun. Students try to avoid this by asking questions and sometimes answers are just as vague as the original directions. The web conference was a good place to have questions answered. It also helped me realize I am no alone in this endeavor, and that feels good.
December 1, 2013
During this web conference the cameras and sound were working unlike the last web conference I attended. There were a few questions about weeks one and two. Then we moved into week three. There were lots of questions about this week's requirements. This week we were informed that in January if we are not seen on camera and our voice is not heard on the web conferences we will not receive credit. This is new and will force me to at least shower before web conferences. We were told of a new-to-me resource, paper.li, which is a way to cultivate your own online digital newspaper. I think I will look into that this week. It seems interesting. As I do more of these web conferences I get more and more comfortable.
December 18, 2013
Tonight was my last web conference for EDLD 5363. That means the class is coming to a close. The web conference was supposed to begin at 7:00. Sitting here at 7:30 the conference still hadn't started. A bit after 7:30 the conference finally started. The tardiness was never acknowledged. There were lots of questions as our Instructional Associate emailed us earlier telling us to hold off on submitting the week five assignment until they had decided the best way to do so. The professor did not share this idea. She told us to submit the same way we had in week three with updates added. This made sense to me and made everything a bit more simple. I just wish this had been in the course overview or at least in the week 4/5 assignment documents.
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