Last Day

Hallelujah,

I made it through the capstone project. I was very nervous about presenting my weebly portfolio in front of the entire class. For the first time I revealed some very personal information about myself. I'm a very emotional person, but I am reluctant to show the emotion to other people.
Originally, I wanted to create a digital story about the voyage of my metamorphosis that has been taking place since May 26, 2008. -But I could not figure out how to format it. So, I attempted to tell the same story using my weebly site. I hope that I achieved my goal.

I was very impressed with all of the presentations that I saw to day. We're an incredible community of students! There was a recurring theme of perseverance and dedication throughout the evening. I feel so proud and privileged to have worked with all of you. Everyone has a story.  I am not  happy that so many people have had so type of personal struggle, but I am glad to know that I am not alone and that other's have risen from the ashes of tribulation.

I wish everyone luck in their future endeavors. Enjoy the remainder of your summer :)

Digital Story Telling

Okay I'm on day four of this digital story telling. I am completely overwhelmed! The weebly site that the group set up looks very nice, It is interesting and engaging.  I wish we would have started this in class, because I need actual modeling. That way we would have seen the story unfold and not feel rushed. Headed to drop Jordan off @ basketball camp, and to the gym. Maybe I'll watch another TED talk for motivation!!!LOL How is everyone else doing with their story?

TED TALKS

Okay, so I am so grateful that Tiffany introduced me to TED TALKS last week, but now I am addicted! Why didn't anyone tell me about these sooner? They're having a conference in Scotland next month. I am so applying to go next year.  I've probably watched 30 of them already! It is so refreshing to see positivity, when Detroit/Michigan is surrounded by so much negativity.  Has anyone else found them extremely helpful and inspiring? I'm really dragging my feet on the CAPSTONE project. There are only two options and they do not appeal to me. I've started the storybird, I just don't feel it's reflective of what I am trying to say.   I wonder if Tiffany will let me do something else instead. We'll see...

Learning Module

OMG,

Talk about stretching yourself! Developing our web sites over this past week was no easy feat. My partner Dawn and I spent the entire weekend in Panera Bread working on our website. While I thought we did a really good job of developing our ideas our site did not seem reflective of that. So I emailed Tiffany and Mike for  some advice.  As we suspected our page did not capture the essence of what we were trying to convey!

 Dawn was freaking out, because she didn't really understand what we had done wrong. -And I wanted to leap out of the window. Because in addition to this activity I had 1 paper and a 15 page lit review due!
Also,my student's grades are due, and I'm busy making sure none of my students fail.

In the 11th hour Dawn and I pulled it together. She took the information from the 1st site that I put together and built a new site. We met on campus and started tweaking the new site before our meeting with Tiffany!

The meeting went well, and I think I can speak for both of us when I say we feel very accomplished!
Thank you Tiffany for forcing me to stretch myself and step out of my comfort zone.
Thank you Dawn for being such a good partner, we work well together or at least I think so!

How did your week go?

Presentations

I really enjoyed last weeks presentations. Everyone did a good job, and they were very informative. I really enjoyed group 2: tools for self-reflection. It is very important for educators to consider their students preferences. All of the reflections that we use are written or typed. I am looking at other ways for students to reflect, such as a digital recording of their reflections. Many students hate writing. It may be easier to get them to reflect if they are offered different tools.