Finishing Up August 08 Workshop - Things to remember.

We're finishing up now.  It is about 3:40 pm.  We just had a great session where we all posted questions on the educator wiki and answered them for another group.  Abbie is compiling a list of ideas for a presentation for us to do during the first faculty senate meeting.  So far, she has:

Globaloria - Wat is it, its large vision and specific goals?

It is a vehicle which provides intrinsic and extrinsic motivation for learning 21st century skills.

Students use analytical and critical thinking skills to create an authentic, relevant product.

Presentation Skills

Collaboration

Web 2.0 Skills (wikis, blogs, transparent learning)

Student Opportunities:

Dual Credit through MU (MCTC)

Paid Internship 

Professional Activities (presenting to Governor's Office, MU Faculty, Soliciting ideas from GEHS Faculty (Research)

Acountability:

Students not only report to teachers, but also to the World Wide Workshop Foundation.

Final products will be on display for all to see and use. 

In other topics...

When students create accounts on the GEHS wiki, they will need an email address.  If possible, all students will need to get a Gmail account.

For user names, etc.  students should not use their full name online.

Abbie and I will keep a full list of all user names and keep them on our user page of the educator's wiki.

We will need to accept students as members and assign them temporary passwords which will be emailed to them.

NOTES FROM LEE

1st Day:

Purple Paper - Survey

Consent Forms

Final Enrollment Names ASAP

First Mini-Workshop is September 10th (wednesday 5:00 pm) Flash

Wow, this is alot!!!  But I think it will be very cool.

Wiki Recent Changes, RSS Feeds, and Whatnot...

Lee just showed me how to link changes from the educators' wiki as an RSS Feed to my Mail program.  All I had to do was copy and past the url from the RSS (located at the bottom left of the educators' wiki recent changes page) and add it as a new RSS feed in Mail.  According to Lee, you can do this from any of the wikis with recent changes.  It is alot of information.  Probably too much, but it is there and provides quick access to any changes.

We are finishing up our August 19th session and I feel pretty confident with all we've done today. The challenge for Abbie and me will be the flash programming.  We'll be asking for help, so all you flash experts out there be ready....

Here we are on August 19th, 2008.  I've been crazy busy for about a month now with band rehearsal, camp, the State Fair and what not.  I'm very lucky to have an understanding wife & family.  Now it is time to turn attention to this Globaloria adventure.  While in the current context I feel a little overwhelmed, I am confident that once Abbie and I get in full stride we will be very successful this school year.  We have a pretty good, diverse list of students we are recruiting for the course.  I'm looking forward to this project!