BLOG 5

Well it's been another couple weeks. We had quiz 3 recently and well...that didn't go too well for me. Hopefully I'll do better on the next one. Last week we had another workshop at the Heritage at Lowman Homes. That workshop was on iGoogle. They reported that only 4 people showed up but overall it went well. This week my group goes and we're doing our workshop on Google Tools. The Tools we chose are Google books, Google Maps, and Youtube. I feel like we made a pretty good presentation and I'm really hoping that the internet doesn't slow down on us. I think that our topics will be very useful for the students that come to the workshop. We also had to turn in our annotated bibliography this past week. I think I did pretty good on mine. We also have to participate in a discussion board for another part of our assignment. Today in class we had to play a game because no one volunteered to be a moderator. Lucky for me, Snoopy was never thrown my way.

BLOG 4 Training Reflection

For the training project, the first thing we had to do was to decide which one we would be participating in. Like in TSTM 444, I chose the Heritage training workshops. After everything was set up, we split up into our project groups and began working on something called a course design specification, or CDS. The first thing we had to do for ours was to decide who was doing what workshop. After that was decided, we split off into our groups of two to work on the specifics for our workshop. The workshop I have is Google Tools and we’ll be presenting it on October 28^th. We chose to present our material on Google Maps, Google Books, and Youtube. I personally believe those are three Google tools that anyone would find useful and I think our audience will benefit by using any of these three. The first thing we did was decide our individual job within the group. To finish up the CDS we had to come up with all of our objectives for the workshop and layout how we are going to present the material. I think we have a really good set up with good objectives. I also think out of all of the topics Google tools will be the most interesting and intriguing to our audience.