Reflection for Assignment 5.9

            My action research project began with my wanting to incorporate Google and its Web 2.0 features into my classroom while earning a training certification in Google. As this have progressed, I did not receive my Google Training Certification because of missing a testing score under 2% of what Google considered passing. Also, I could not attend the designated day to make up the test score because of health issues and a doctor’s appointment that I had scheduled. I updated my blog on my own on March 2^nd so that I would be able to give advice on the Google Training and document what had happened during the session, but had set a goal of making up the exam on my own in order to receive the certification. But, as luck would have it, I was not able to take the Exam and therefore I missed my certification by 2%.

            However, this has not stopped me from learning more about the Web 2.0 features on Google, reaching to incorporate them into my classroom, and teach my colleagues about Google’s features. Our campus has opened the teacher accounts for Google’s education program and I have started moving my lesson plans to calendar. I am also slotted to work a training day for our campus in order to give them an idea of how to navigate Google and use their features in the classroom.

            On another point, my internship is still progressing. I have researched other school’s LMS’s, created collaborative projects, and even served as a Vice-Principal for a day dealing with mainly discipline issues. One of the reasons that I have not done more toward my internship is because I did not have enough hours to be considered for duties, and then school ended for the summer. However, when school starts back in August, I will have many more opportunities.     

WebConference Reflection for July, 2

I do not like reading and writing reflections from these transcripts. They are a jumbled mess of questions, no answers, new questions, comments, still no answers to the first question, a comment on the comment, and then an answer to the question with a one work answer. To e these are not useful for getting information. emailing the professor or IA is much better for getting answers because the answers will be direct and correct. If it werent part of the course I would not participate in reading transcripts from the conferences, or participate in the web conferences at all. I have found them to be more frustrating then informative and the trade of amping my anxiety just isnt worth it.
Students should stay on topic when typing in the comment box, and moderators should answer questions presented. This is not IM or Chat, but a session that is to be on a controlled topic.

I am still confused on what we are to submit for week 5 since I have done the work already in previous weeks.
 

WebConference July1st Reflection

For this web conference reflection I had to read the transcript and listen to the recording. As students typed questions about their projects, Dr. Abernathy answered on the audio. This proved to be useless for me becasue the audio stopped playin about 3 minutes into the recording. However, I proceeded to reading the transcript and saw that there were a lot of questions that I would liked to asked and had answered. Questions such as: are we to submit 3 web conference reflections and a course reflection? Also, seems like a lot of students were having difficult weather during that time becasue they were exchanging storied on the newsfeed.