Wednesday, July 4, 2012

EDLD 5363 Web Conference Reflections


June 17, 2012
            The purpose of this conference is to clarify issues with course assignments and your degree program, interact with classmates and Dr. Abernathy, and feel confident that you will move forward in your course and program.  Dr. Abernathy encouraged everyone to participate in the class evaluations at lamar.edu before the class ends.  The focus audience for this class is all teachers.  The Week 2 project is an introduction to a core curriculum subject area, not a P.S.A.  In the past they did PSA’s but not this time.  Your podcast should be about 90 seconds, but Dr. Abernathy will accept anything.  She is not going to be picky about the length of the podcast.  Every team member turns in all documents so that everyone gets credit for each assignment.  You should document everything in Google Docs.  Week 2 is about exploring Audacity and Creative Commons, and writing a script for your podcast, and creating a podcast.  

June 30, 2012

            Dr. Abernathy made it clear that some people have credit for their script and not their digital story, and vice versa.  One should email her if you don’t have credit for both the script and the digital story.    Dr. Abernathy also said she expects everyone to start with an “A” and stay there.  She said you should notify her if you haven’t turned something in.   She is making notes of people who have said they turned something in and didn’t get credit; she will make sure you get credit for your assignment before the course is over.  Dr. Abernathy’s goal for this class is for students to be successful, not frustrated.  Dr. Abernathy noted that there nine parts to the Week 5 Assignment.  She addressed confusion about assignments 4.3 and 4.4 by stating that we should state on the assignments that we are working on our video.  She stated that Week 4 is a guide for Week 5, and that we will get full credit for everything in week 4.   Dr. Abernathy’s goal for us is to be able to use what we have learned in this class with our students or with other teachers. Dr. Abernathy said she would send out the Week 5 Overview today.  She also reminded everyone to participate in the class surveys.

July 2, 2012
            The purpose of this conference is to clarify any issues for Week 5.  The correct 5.4 Assignment is in the announcements, and Dr. Abernathy will eventually put it into Epic.  She also recommended Google Docs for posting your team reflections.  The Week 5 Overview, posted in Epic, has a list of the items you should post in your TK20.  You also need to upload web conference reflections into your ePortfolio.  There is a link to internship forms in the weekly overviews.    The purpose of the ePortfolio is to show your professionalism and the things you have accomplished.  Dr. Abernathy suggested we put “done” for each item in the 5.3 Assignment.  Internship hours include the work you have completed in this class and in previous classes.  By the 7th course you should have completed your 150 internship hours.  These hours are your course embedded assignments.
            

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