Sunday, May 31, 2009
Seriously????
Okay, I do talk too much. I just went through and counted how many blogs I had done and skimmed by fellow Rapping Roadrunners blogs. What I found out was: I was not alone in some of my frustrations and joys (Voice Thread); I talk too much on my blogs; and I only had 23 blogs! So here is #24!
Winding Up 31 May 2009
This is my last blog. (I think.) Today is the day I try to complete everything before the due date of 2 June 2009. I am unsure if I have 24 blogs, but I am pretty sure I did blog once a week.
As I am writing this, I am listening to the John Fishback Voice Thread. I did not find how to upload the Voice Thread on anything. I tried doing it through Google Documents. Like other things I tried using this service, my stuff is too big to use it. I had to edit down the two Power Points until there was under 10 MB to embed it into the Advanced Power Point. The final Power Point models don't do all the cool tricks I have in the originals, like voices without the little yellow speakers appearing, the music underneath the entire slide show, and the moving video. I may have to look into Google Videos, which appears at the top of a page too, but I can not use because I do not have administrative rights.
Any way back to embedding widgets, I did get both the John Fishback and the Abraham Lincoln pieces embedded after some problems with the copy/paste action. The Fishback one did not show up at first, but I kept trying. Lincoln was quick and done. They work and that is a good thing.
Widget wise I have embedded widgets in the Voice Thread/Podcast thing and the Advanced Power Point. They work. The ones I thought I embedded into the Classroom Wiki, just seem to be embedded links to other websites. I see the little screen on the edit page and the web address on the embedding page, but it does not work on the wiki page other than when I click on the link. I don't know how to get the URL to break down into code. So I will have the links as they are.
Thing I learned trying to get this final wiki project up are:
1) If you have already made your links for your pages on your wiki, don't click DELETE because you think that you are suppose to have the word VOICE THREAD on the link and not PODCAST. I could see the PODCAST page when I went to the Manage my wiki page, but I could not get it back where it needed to be.
2) Those headers from Flaming Text always seem to work on some computers and not all. The lovely red x appears and when clicked on, does nothing. Go back to the Flaming Text wed site and do you titles again. This time save them as picture files and copy/paste them. I had the same problem last year and perhaps if I ever need to use them again, I will remember this fact.
3) I make things that are too big to go on any of these sites. Google Docs couldn't hold my material. I had to edit down stuff to just give a taste. The Fischback material was edited by the students, so wasn't going to mess with their project, but it was too long. (Sort of like this blog...)
4) The students really liked to do the Voice Thread voice work. They liked hearing themselves. They were self critical and wanted perfection. One student who was negative when asked to write things, I had write a comment on his worksheet. He did find one thing he liked. I called him in with his special ed teacher. He watched other students do the process first. I showed him how the recording happened and demonstrated the use of the curser to draw on the image. He improvised his way through the one he had selected. Then he asked to go through the entire slide show so he could comment on other things. He sounded quite knowledgable. His problem was that he didn't like the sound of his own voice.
5) Keep playing with things and perhaps it will work. Trying to do some of these projects was sure frustrating...even if I think I followed directions...even if someone showed me, I forgot...but sometimes just taking a hunch and playing, I did figure stuff out by myself.
6) I am more competent and confident using technology. I will be using it more over the summer and throughout the next school year. I will be having the students using it more as well.
As I am writing this, I am listening to the John Fishback Voice Thread. I did not find how to upload the Voice Thread on anything. I tried doing it through Google Documents. Like other things I tried using this service, my stuff is too big to use it. I had to edit down the two Power Points until there was under 10 MB to embed it into the Advanced Power Point. The final Power Point models don't do all the cool tricks I have in the originals, like voices without the little yellow speakers appearing, the music underneath the entire slide show, and the moving video. I may have to look into Google Videos, which appears at the top of a page too, but I can not use because I do not have administrative rights.
Any way back to embedding widgets, I did get both the John Fishback and the Abraham Lincoln pieces embedded after some problems with the copy/paste action. The Fishback one did not show up at first, but I kept trying. Lincoln was quick and done. They work and that is a good thing.
Widget wise I have embedded widgets in the Voice Thread/Podcast thing and the Advanced Power Point. They work. The ones I thought I embedded into the Classroom Wiki, just seem to be embedded links to other websites. I see the little screen on the edit page and the web address on the embedding page, but it does not work on the wiki page other than when I click on the link. I don't know how to get the URL to break down into code. So I will have the links as they are.
Thing I learned trying to get this final wiki project up are:
1) If you have already made your links for your pages on your wiki, don't click DELETE because you think that you are suppose to have the word VOICE THREAD on the link and not PODCAST. I could see the PODCAST page when I went to the Manage my wiki page, but I could not get it back where it needed to be.
2) Those headers from Flaming Text always seem to work on some computers and not all. The lovely red x appears and when clicked on, does nothing. Go back to the Flaming Text wed site and do you titles again. This time save them as picture files and copy/paste them. I had the same problem last year and perhaps if I ever need to use them again, I will remember this fact.
3) I make things that are too big to go on any of these sites. Google Docs couldn't hold my material. I had to edit down stuff to just give a taste. The Fischback material was edited by the students, so wasn't going to mess with their project, but it was too long. (Sort of like this blog...)
4) The students really liked to do the Voice Thread voice work. They liked hearing themselves. They were self critical and wanted perfection. One student who was negative when asked to write things, I had write a comment on his worksheet. He did find one thing he liked. I called him in with his special ed teacher. He watched other students do the process first. I showed him how the recording happened and demonstrated the use of the curser to draw on the image. He improvised his way through the one he had selected. Then he asked to go through the entire slide show so he could comment on other things. He sounded quite knowledgable. His problem was that he didn't like the sound of his own voice.
5) Keep playing with things and perhaps it will work. Trying to do some of these projects was sure frustrating...even if I think I followed directions...even if someone showed me, I forgot...but sometimes just taking a hunch and playing, I did figure stuff out by myself.
6) I am more competent and confident using technology. I will be using it more over the summer and throughout the next school year. I will be having the students using it more as well.
Friday, May 29, 2009
Logo
Our STEP Team is very dedicated to this project. We are very proud that our LOGO was selected and each time I see it, I really do smile. It reminds me what we can produce at this school.
almost the end...
We are getting so close to the end, and I am thankful to just be putting on finishing touches!! I hope that we can continue to have the STEP program year after year....because I feel like the resources we have been given have been invaluable to our team. We have had many opportunities to share what we have learned with the staff, and it has been great!!
Kindergarten orientation
We created a photostory explaining the typical day of a kindergartner to play at our kindergarten orientation! It was awesome, and I was glad to now have that as a resource that we can use year after year! The parents loved it, and the kids enjoy using the technology like the digital camera and the headset.
Kindergarten Play pictures
We are making a Kindergarten Photostory for the parents to watch before our BIG Kindergarten Play. It will show all the children in pictures, and the children will say what they liked about Kindergarten. It is GREAT!!!
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Plugging Away
I think I can JUST see the light at the end of the tunnel. I have been working very hard to get all of my work for STEP done. All of my projects are finished (I think), I'm down to the reflecting point. I'm really looking forward to the gallery walk and getting more great ideas from the participants from other scholl (oh, and sharing what I did!).
Friday, May 22, 2009
Tricky Wiki...5-22-09
So far, the students and I have learned a great deal about and have enjoyed working with our Classroom Wiki. They have been able to try out the discussion boards, and have been pleased to receive commentary on their reviews. Time is always a challenge for us, but we hope to continue our reviews and discussions throughout the summer. I have planned out a Summer Book Buzz extension for those interested. We will be reading three books: The Westing Game, Holes, and Frindle for 3 weeks each and meeting to discuss the books at the end of each week. I spent some time creating a Google Calendar as one of my widgets on our Wiki that charted the chapters to be read for each week throughout the summer. To my disappointment, when I embedded the calendar, it appears blank on the Wiki. I have not been able to figure out why just yet, but am hoping for an answer from Google or Wikispaces soon. Either way, we have found the entire project to be both motivational and fun!
Children
Kids really do come first with us. They can get upset, make poor choices, say the wrong things and someone at our school will come to their rescue. I notice that they smile a lot and even skip down the hallways - a good sign.
Kindergarten Orientation
Our team is creating an orientation photostory with the children telling the upcoming parents about their day. It is about 15 minutes long, and hopefully relieve some stress from parents.
Only Two more Blogs!!! 22 May
Yahoo! I only have to write two more blogs. This one will concentrate on frustrations and triumphs of doing things with digital images, still and moving.
FRIDAY: For a report for the Maryland State Arts Council, I decided to do a video of things that we did this year at Rockledge. I opened Movie Maker. I selected the clips to use. I added still pictures in it. When I checked to see how it looked, the dreaded red X's appeared. Oh yeah, I said to myself, I need backup on the desktop to keep working because I was going on and off CD's. I dragged the images off. I needed to finish it at home. I put copied all of the images from the desk top onto my thumbdrive, copied the Movie file, and took it home to work on the school's laptop.
I opened up the file on the thumbdrive and got the red X's again! I dragged all of the copied files off the thumdrive and put them on the laptop's desktop. I looked again at the movie, the video images were there, but the still images had the red X's. I gave up and decided to make a photo story.
I spent two hours making this really nice flow of images. I pulled from many CD's. I noticed that sometimes I couldn't make certain images appear on the viewing screen. They just stayed on the storyboard, but I wasn't too worried. It was a photo story. I knew I had planned well. I had the images selected already and listed on papers. Nothing was going to have a red X. Nothing had to be saved on the desktop. After two hours of working on it, THE STORY REFUSED TO STAY!!!! I went to bed and dreamed of how I longed for one of the new little HP computers instead of the Dell that had little or no space on it.
SATURDAY: I had to do a Power Point for a presentation I was doing with another person on Thursday. I found a design layout I liked. I added a little annimation as the photos flew into place. It took an hour and looked good. I had also decided to do the Arts report as a Power Point. I spent the next two hours adding text and photos to a show that (at that time) was 92 slides long. It looked good and told the story of the Arts events at our school.
MONDAY: I knew I had images on the school computer that I had not put on a CD, so I added more. I showed it to a few people and they liked it. I decided to add music. I selected Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue because it was long and could cover the time of the Power Point. I did not know how to do it and neither did others that I talked to. I decided to ask Jim Kerns, our instrumental music instructor because he had just done it for a PP presentation that he had worked on. I walked around the lake by my house and heard voices---no not that kind---voices of students talking about the arts. I wanted to add them to the first slide.
TUESDAY: I added a slide to preview the introduction of the slide show. I recorded the PK and two girls saying lines that were written on the screen. I had never recorded for a PP before so this was cool. Jim helped after school. I ripped the Gershwin piece to the Windows Media player. I knew enough to get that as a file ahead of time. Jim helped get the timing of the first slide going correctly. We played with this slide for a good 45 minutes before I came up with the idea to get rid of the text when the words were spoken. The presentation was now FABULOUS! The music timed perfectly with the images. I added the forgotten band and chorus concert and there was now 114 slides. I felt proud of the final piece.
WEDNSDAY: I completed work on the Movie Maker file. I deleted some of the still images. I added titles, transitions, and a little music to open and close the piece. I had trouble editing the moving images from the timeline. There was only one, so I kept it on there. Oh well. I copied the final draft to a CD. I was okay with the product, but it wasn't as well done and cool as the Power Point. I added the movie to the CD with the Power Point and put it with the material for the Maryland State Arts Council.
I am going to buy a small laptop.
FRIDAY: For a report for the Maryland State Arts Council, I decided to do a video of things that we did this year at Rockledge. I opened Movie Maker. I selected the clips to use. I added still pictures in it. When I checked to see how it looked, the dreaded red X's appeared. Oh yeah, I said to myself, I need backup on the desktop to keep working because I was going on and off CD's. I dragged the images off. I needed to finish it at home. I put copied all of the images from the desk top onto my thumbdrive, copied the Movie file, and took it home to work on the school's laptop.
I opened up the file on the thumbdrive and got the red X's again! I dragged all of the copied files off the thumdrive and put them on the laptop's desktop. I looked again at the movie, the video images were there, but the still images had the red X's. I gave up and decided to make a photo story.
I spent two hours making this really nice flow of images. I pulled from many CD's. I noticed that sometimes I couldn't make certain images appear on the viewing screen. They just stayed on the storyboard, but I wasn't too worried. It was a photo story. I knew I had planned well. I had the images selected already and listed on papers. Nothing was going to have a red X. Nothing had to be saved on the desktop. After two hours of working on it, THE STORY REFUSED TO STAY!!!! I went to bed and dreamed of how I longed for one of the new little HP computers instead of the Dell that had little or no space on it.
SATURDAY: I had to do a Power Point for a presentation I was doing with another person on Thursday. I found a design layout I liked. I added a little annimation as the photos flew into place. It took an hour and looked good. I had also decided to do the Arts report as a Power Point. I spent the next two hours adding text and photos to a show that (at that time) was 92 slides long. It looked good and told the story of the Arts events at our school.
MONDAY: I knew I had images on the school computer that I had not put on a CD, so I added more. I showed it to a few people and they liked it. I decided to add music. I selected Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue because it was long and could cover the time of the Power Point. I did not know how to do it and neither did others that I talked to. I decided to ask Jim Kerns, our instrumental music instructor because he had just done it for a PP presentation that he had worked on. I walked around the lake by my house and heard voices---no not that kind---voices of students talking about the arts. I wanted to add them to the first slide.
TUESDAY: I added a slide to preview the introduction of the slide show. I recorded the PK and two girls saying lines that were written on the screen. I had never recorded for a PP before so this was cool. Jim helped after school. I ripped the Gershwin piece to the Windows Media player. I knew enough to get that as a file ahead of time. Jim helped get the timing of the first slide going correctly. We played with this slide for a good 45 minutes before I came up with the idea to get rid of the text when the words were spoken. The presentation was now FABULOUS! The music timed perfectly with the images. I added the forgotten band and chorus concert and there was now 114 slides. I felt proud of the final piece.
WEDNSDAY: I completed work on the Movie Maker file. I deleted some of the still images. I added titles, transitions, and a little music to open and close the piece. I had trouble editing the moving images from the timeline. There was only one, so I kept it on there. Oh well. I copied the final draft to a CD. I was okay with the product, but it wasn't as well done and cool as the Power Point. I added the movie to the CD with the Power Point and put it with the material for the Maryland State Arts Council.
I am going to buy a small laptop.
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Frogs and Horses and Chickens - OH MY!
We are done with our Animal Report VoiceThread! Hooray! After lots of hemming and hawing about how I would find the quiet time to get the kids on, I finally decided to just go for it. I had a few kids come in at recess and they learned how to use the program. Then they served as peer coaches for the other kids during "silent" reading time. It wasn't perfect, but I do think I was able to manage it reasonably well. I also think that if I use VoiceThread on a more regular basis next year, kids will get the level of noise that is needed in order for it to sound good.
Friday, May 15, 2009
My Voice on VoiceThread 5-15-09
This is the first experience that I have had working with VoiceThread. It was really user-friendly. Taking the pictures and organizing the presentation was a breeze. Our biggest challenge was finding the time for each student to record their voice in a quiet setting. Students loved the fact that they could preview what they sounded like before saving. Needless to say, there were MANY redos. They were constantly remarking that they didn't sound like themselves or didn't like the way they sounded saying a certain word. It was actually a good tool to use for them to monitor their fluency while reading their information sheets and 5 interesting facts. The students were quick to notice how often they paused while reading, got "stuck" on a word, or repeated themselves. They most enjoyed viewing the final product and were very excited to share the VoiceThread with their parents.As for my experience with creating the VoiceThread for instructional use, I must admit it was pretty frustrating at times. Uploading the PowerPoint was a snap, but when I viewed it, the transfer process appeared to distort some of my text and speech bubbles. After fixing this, I began recording the narrative portion. This was more complicated than when the children used it. Often, it would not record my voice, or it would appear to be recording and then halfway through playback, my voice would fade off. I couldn't figure out if I was saying too much or if there was just a glitch in the VoiceThread site that day. In the end, I managed to get all I wanted to say for each slide recorded. It turned out to be a pretty cute presentation. I'm looking forward to seeing how the students like it.
pre-k
Our PreK class is the perfect example of the power of modeling. They can actually mimic the morning routine of their teacher independently. They get up in front of their classmates with no inhibitions. What happens as the years go by?
DONE!!!
I am so excited. Pending final approval, I think I am finished with my portfolio/wiki!! I am hoping that it is OK. I am very proud of the hard work that the students put forth with such a technologically advanced project!
I feel now I have a bit of breathing room, and can go back and make edits as necessary!
I feel now I have a bit of breathing room, and can go back and make edits as necessary!
04/30/09
This week I looked on line about web bender and pixie. The two programs do not look that expensive. I asked our technology person and she did not think anyone in our building is currently using the programs, but I think it will be great to use!!! We are lucky and the PTA lets the teachers make small purchases for the year. I think I am going to puchase the programs!!
I think I am done.
May 15, 2009
I think I have all the componets necessary for my project. I really like the voicethread activity. The children loved using the microphone headset. I now feel like I have accomplished a goal for the Step program. It feels so good.
I think I have all the componets necessary for my project. I really like the voicethread activity. The children loved using the microphone headset. I now feel like I have accomplished a goal for the Step program. It feels so good.
Thursday, May 14, 2009
Yes I Can!
Yes I Can!
Yes, I can upload the mini-Power Points I created for the John Fishback Voicethread project. It was much easier and faster than I thought it was going to be. Thanks to all who said make it small. It took about five minutes total. Awesome!
Yes, I can figure out how to put the old blogs that Ronlyn sent into the Blogger site. I couldn't edit it the way she sent it. So, I in my new tech knowledge, copied and pasted it onto a Word Perfect page. TaaDaaa! Then I cut and pasted the posts onto the Blogger site. One that appeared in the middle of the blog Ronlyn sent seemed way out of sequence because it said Orientation Blog. I know I did one that day, but it doesn't look like something I would write. I added a note to say that. I also posted dates. This one has no date.
Yes, I can write a grant for the Maryland Arts Council in an hour and get it in before time. Yahoo!
Yes, I can do a series of videos for teachers and parents to see students' performances as they do shadow puppets. I will download it later and create a movie with it...Lots of photos and other things to download and create something with. I hope to take a lot of time tomorrow to do it.
Yes, I can upload the mini-Power Points I created for the John Fishback Voicethread project. It was much easier and faster than I thought it was going to be. Thanks to all who said make it small. It took about five minutes total. Awesome!
Yes, I can figure out how to put the old blogs that Ronlyn sent into the Blogger site. I couldn't edit it the way she sent it. So, I in my new tech knowledge, copied and pasted it onto a Word Perfect page. TaaDaaa! Then I cut and pasted the posts onto the Blogger site. One that appeared in the middle of the blog Ronlyn sent seemed way out of sequence because it said Orientation Blog. I know I did one that day, but it doesn't look like something I would write. I added a note to say that. I also posted dates. This one has no date.
Yes, I can write a grant for the Maryland Arts Council in an hour and get it in before time. Yahoo!
Yes, I can do a series of videos for teachers and parents to see students' performances as they do shadow puppets. I will download it later and create a movie with it...Lots of photos and other things to download and create something with. I hope to take a lot of time tomorrow to do it.
Fluency
I am really liking the fluency practice that my kids are getting as they use VoiceThread. Being able to hear their comments is so powerful. I've started having kids read their reports and they are very picky about how it sounds. They are picking up on things that I have been trying to get them to hear for a while. I really look forward to using VoiceThread more regularly next year, both for formal products and in more informal ways.
Friday, May 8, 2009
In the Blink of an Eye…5-8-09
I was really disappointed to find out that Google has abandoned Notebook which I was really getting used to using during our research project I found it to be incredibly useful and had even gotten the students started on taking notes and remembering sites. I think this is my biggest fear in technology. When we are putting so much hard work into the documents, presentations, and websites that we are housing on the Web, it is disheartening to think that, at any moment, the “forces that be” who are hosting our information can just wipe it all away without notice. Is it worth putting in the effort to use these tools only to have them gone in the blink of an eye???It makes me think of many of these WEB 2.0 sites that we are spending so much time developing projects with and on. I would really like to be able to save some of our hard work, but cannot figure out how this is possible. The kids would also like copies of their final products such as their Voice Thread projects. Is there any solution to this dilemma???
Falling into place May 8
Well, I am getting a little closer to understanding how to get my things up on Voice Thread. I created a Power Point with the images selected by Mr. Purdy's 5th grade students to tell the story of John Fishback's visit. I thought one way to manage the voices and what would be said was to run off the presentation and leave the lines for notes. My plan was to show the Power Point and have them write notes next to the pictures they wanted to comment on. Only positive comments would be allowed. This was one way I could get 30 students to comment on 25 photos. I thought I could get it all done on Friday of this week.
HA! Silly me! I forgot that they had MSA Science testing during my media time with them. I also found that when I tried to upload this really large file, it did nothing on Voice Thread's side of things. I had compressed the file and I had compressed the photos. John had earlier suggested that I shrink the photos so I went through and shrunk them all. When I looked at what the product was on the Power Point, the photo was quite small in the space it was given on the slide. Forget that. So I asked Susan and Wendy what they did and they said that they broke their slide show up into smaller chunks with new names and sent it through. It took time, but they did it.
So I tried several times to do that, I couldn't figure out how to do that. Joie showed me how to copy the slides and now it sits on this computer in nine separate pieces waiting to be uploaded onto Voice Thread.
As to the plan about using the Power Point and students writing notes...there was some grumbling..."Do we have to?" "I can't think of anything to say." "I have nothing to say. I hated it all."...Yeah, positive thinking. I showed them the presentation. I showed them what a Voice Thread was. I gave out the papers. One wrote "good" on a few slides. Others wrote a lot. I am waiting until after Camp Schmidt next week to have them record anything. I will go through the papers and select who comments on what picture. Wish me luck on the enthusiasm bit...
HA! Silly me! I forgot that they had MSA Science testing during my media time with them. I also found that when I tried to upload this really large file, it did nothing on Voice Thread's side of things. I had compressed the file and I had compressed the photos. John had earlier suggested that I shrink the photos so I went through and shrunk them all. When I looked at what the product was on the Power Point, the photo was quite small in the space it was given on the slide. Forget that. So I asked Susan and Wendy what they did and they said that they broke their slide show up into smaller chunks with new names and sent it through. It took time, but they did it.
So I tried several times to do that, I couldn't figure out how to do that. Joie showed me how to copy the slides and now it sits on this computer in nine separate pieces waiting to be uploaded onto Voice Thread.
As to the plan about using the Power Point and students writing notes...there was some grumbling..."Do we have to?" "I can't think of anything to say." "I have nothing to say. I hated it all."...Yeah, positive thinking. I showed them the presentation. I showed them what a Voice Thread was. I gave out the papers. One wrote "good" on a few slides. Others wrote a lot. I am waiting until after Camp Schmidt next week to have them record anything. I will go through the papers and select who comments on what picture. Wish me luck on the enthusiasm bit...
Learning walks
Our Learning Walks have been well received by the staff. Most fun has been when teachers realize it really is about student learning and not a focus on their teaching.
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
Kidspiration
Today the class created a Kidspiration about What I learned in Kindergarten. The children brainstormed and we created a web. The children did write the response for the writing prompt. It was amazing all of the well written responses! The children were able to use the web to organize their thoughts, spell correctly, and create a complete project! It was wonderful!!
Training session
The last training session was very valuable. This year, I feel as though we have been provided a lot more time to get the project done, and for that I am thankful! Having the option of doing 2 sections instead of 3 has been a lifesaver. I am looking forward to seeing all of the different projects at the gallery walk in June!
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Feliz Cinco de Mayo
My teacher-created VoiceThread is done! Yay! It was really a lot of fun putting it together. I think it has the potential to give some good extra practice to some of the kids in my class who are a little fuzzy on how to count parts of solid figures. Now, I just have to find the time to work it into our schedule!
Friday, May 1, 2009
Catching Up...5-1-09
This week, I attended a make-up work session at Seabrook ES for the one I had to miss due to my mom’s hospitalization. At first, I thought I didn’t really “need” the work session because I felt that I had a good start on my projects and an understanding of what I had to do. Come to find out, I have quite a way to go. I learned that the widgets on our Wiki are supposed to be different types. I had a few TeacherTube videos embedded; including one that is a PowerPoint in VoiceThread type format on different genres in reading. Now, I have to decide how to include two more different ones. My only concern is finding something to put up that is applicable to the page and doesn’t appear “forced” or “meaningless”. I have been struggling to find the time to have the students post more of their reviews. They are slow typers, and have been losing computer time as a whole class due to the 5th graders taking the Science MSA. I may have to intervene and type in some of the remaining ones myself. I want to have this done ASAP so that they can go on and post some discussion thread comments. This is going to be another obstacle in terms of time. Is there ever enough???
One good thing has happened at the beginning of this week. Ann Starr, our technology teacher, was able to help me locate and download a 30-day trial version of the program, WS FTP Pro, which allows me to upload the school website onto our county server. This buys me time for the next month, but not the rest of the school year. Since we just explained to parents in the last newsletter that the site would be down for the remainder of the year, my principal and I felt it would be better not to announce that some updates will be made for the next two weeks. It appears now you must download the software each year for a fee. A decision is going to have to be made whether to purchase the software program. This decision is not to be mine.
One good thing has happened at the beginning of this week. Ann Starr, our technology teacher, was able to help me locate and download a 30-day trial version of the program, WS FTP Pro, which allows me to upload the school website onto our county server. This buys me time for the next month, but not the rest of the school year. Since we just explained to parents in the last newsletter that the site would be down for the remainder of the year, my principal and I felt it would be better not to announce that some updates will be made for the next two weeks. It appears now you must download the software each year for a fee. A decision is going to have to be made whether to purchase the software program. This decision is not to be mine.
POL
The Principles of Learning are a direct correlation to the Dimensions of Learning. Why in education does it take so long to institutionalize a concept? It will be great to see how technology plays a role in this.
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