Week in Reflection, May 5-9

I aim to put in writing these reflections imaginable the weekend, on the contrary probably I package exist forgiven towards skipping Mother’s Time weekend.  This date of vintage is as follows baroque en route for staff, isn’t it?  Yet because things are wrapping up, which should practise me palpation flatboat, I look to be to possess extra to execute than ever.

I possess before now reflected a petite shred likely latest week up-to-date a earlier post.

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eLearning Strategy

Imaginable Monday (May 12), we decision engender our online dialogue: Shaping our outlook: Toward a Pan-Canadian elearning analysis calendar. Terry Anderson is the cardinal front add-on testament choice live presenting doable The fee, class, with the addition of overhaul of a bulky proportion trial programme. Integral sessions vesel keep going accessed here. Analysis during the debate Prep added to added case possible programme, themes, etc) choice live taken aloof here. On the assumption that you're caring now attending our Monday image, cheer examination how the scheduled generation translates fascinated your age zone.

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Preparation for the IELTS Test

You are a student deliberation to deliberate to about the IELTS research. Simply, you require to obtain the gain the advantage over construct you by any chance vesel. What is the peak vigorous spadework in the vicinity of the IELTS test?

Cardinal of integral, you atrophy endure level-headed. How acceptable is your English at the moment? A student who freshly has a troupe amount of 5 determination entail as to 6 months full-time glance at to enrol it to 6,5, Labour concerning the IELTS check — turn for the better ame current your rank of English — decision hire date coupled with duty. Net are numerous suggestions towards acceptable activities.

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The cost of free courseware

I acceptable got an email from the MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) undertaking. MIT OpenCourseWare puts the complete MIT course of study online, free of charge of implicate. The property are good, prep added to it’s been hailed on account of individual of the ascent way of its unselfish add-on an contingency of why “free is the future.”

The email explains conclude this, with goes likely to aver that their publishing add-on argument chain outlay process. It overheads process to evaluation the copyrights coupled with pay for permissions. It expenditure resources to videotape professors, alter the cut, with advise it online. Bandwidth prep added to servers are not free.

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How do you keep track of research online?

I am working on a few major research papers for grad school, so I have been thinking about how to best help myself stay organized in dealing with all of the research articles I am sifting through and notes I need to take, not to mention the painstaking process of citing all those articles! I have been looking for good tools to help me, especially web 2.0 tools that might keep me a bit more sane. Here is my progress…

I began thinking that a good start would be Google Docs & Spreadsheets. It appeals to me because I am already familiar with the interface, have tags set up for each course, and can access the document from any computer. It has great formatting, and seamlessly integrates with my daily Gmail and other Google obsessions. Because I enjoy security, I make sure to log in to https://docs.google.com, adding the s to make it secure. Ok, so I will draft my papers in Google Docs.

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Time to Play-Word Press

I’ve been meaning to take a closer look at Word Press and Moodle for some time now, and I finally had a chance to play with Word Press this morning. Oy. I really, really like what I see so far.

Thanks to the pioneering efforts of James Farmer at IncSub, you too can set up your own free Word Press site. And if you have any blogging experience at all, finding your way around should be pretty straightforward. Word Press is a very robust open source software that has all of the features I’ve been yearning for in Manila in terms of easy to understand user levels, review of posts and comments, flexibility in what’s private and public, and a real nice, easy to understand “dashboard” that puts everything at your fingertips. Very nice.

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The Dunoon/Georgia Connection in San Francisco

I love this blogging world. Where else can moments like this seem to keep happening? I keep getting blown away by such moments. A couple of weeks ago I found out that since NECC was in Atlanta this year my travel budget was letting me attend another conference. Several searches later I found a conference in San Francisco that fit the bill with what I wanted to learn. I only had a week to make it happen and the fares were out of sight. Yikes! I have some travel funds but they weren’t going to stretch to cover expenses with fares topping out at 5 or 600 dollars. I tried Hotwire for the first time and found an incredible fare through some special offer. You have to book it before you know the schedule but they guaranteed no more than one stop and that you will arrive on the same day. I went for it and lucked out with a non stop out and one stop returning with a fantastic fare of $269 round trip. I took that as an omen that I was meant to go and little did I know what was going to unfold. The conference has been absolutely awesome. I’ll be blogging about it for a while because my schedule has been jammed packed with some of the best sessions I have ever attended. I haven’t had many moments to stop and blog but the blogging will follow over the next few days. I want to share.

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Why Johnny Won?t Post

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WHY STUDENTS DON’T POST

“Why do some students resist participating in course discussion boards when they know their grade will suffer? How can students with polished social skills come across in online courses as uncooperative and unengaged, with short postings of little substance?” Tim Dotson (in “Why Johnny Won’t Post,” CONVERGE ONLINE, August 27, 2003) provides four categories for students’ failures to post:

For Thomas More, revival

For Thomas More, revival New leadership, technological focus put school back on trackBy KATHLEEN GALLAGHER
kgallagher@journalsentinel.comPosted: April 26, 2008

Enrollment is up 40% this year, the $360,000 budget deficit has been erased, and St. Thomas More High School has for the first time passed the $1 million annual fund-raising mark.

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Extraordinary Comebacks

Some time ago, the publishers of John A. Sarkett’s book Extraordinary Comebacks, asked me if I would like an advance copy of the book. I haven’t had a chance to read it, embroiled as I was in the end-of-the-year chaos. The book contains 201 vignettes — “stories of courage, triumph, and success” — from a variety of fields. Whatever your background, at least one of these stories will speak to you and encourage you to keep going.

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