progression

This is a new week. My group has planned a pretty good presentation about japan culture. I told my teacher about our blog spot but i have not heard a response to kinda get a feel of the things she like or did not like. Giving her ideas about how here blog could look like. Sometimes its hard to direct others because blogs and other social networking site are so unique to each person each having there own thing. But John and I are more then willing to help get her start and blogs are pretty easy so once you get the basics the world of blogging is endless. But i emailed her today so i can just wait for a response. Class is always so random. But i do find myself using the technology more that was presented especially google docs has become like my top website. Due to the fact while I'm at work I can accomplish work and don't feel bad about saving info on the computer or emailing it to myself i just use the google docs and it save it self and i can come back later. It makes my studying more efficient i can definitely say that for the past exam i took today. But i still havent completly understand jing which i think is possibel the only way our teacher will understand how to step up a blog and of course the easiest. so i will need to work on that. Oh and this is a side bar but the nba season opener was yetersday , so i was very excited but the dallas team lost to washington D.C which is such a shocker to me becuase i didnt think they were that good. And as always the replays are always of lebron and kobe and there crazy skills. So i decieded to do something different and add a video of the game.

Short Week

We receive an email from our teacher. Its kinda exciting now to see how we can help our teacher use technology in her class. However, john and I are still trying to figure the best way for the blog to work . The information that we have so far a google document could also be used. But no matter what all the student would have to get a yahoo, google or an aim account. Which is something that may or may not be possible. But our teacher request is very simple.
This was a very short school week. It just seem that time goes pass so fast its like a month and its thanksgiving which basically mean the semester is over. which is crazy but i'm glad to have this little vacation even though it just more time to study for my test next week.

First full week in Oct.

This week is pretty much the same. We still have not heard back from our teacher but this is kinda causing a lack of interest. Due the fact the semester almost over so even if we teacher her some thing we will not be able to really see it though. But I still have hope because I can't imagine the world without technology n the wonderful things her students are missing out on without. As well as learning opportunities especially globally to see how someone lives n learn.

This week hybrid I did a presentation on social bookmarking. I will say no matter how dorky it is that learn new technology and the way it easy your life is always amazing. And i loved how my group member used a jing in our presentation. I will say I was a little worried becuase that is not a technology that i mastered. But it went real well.

Weekly post

The Post:

We are suppose to do weekly blog post but the concept of typing ideas sometimes seems to slip my mind. I feel this class does present some topics that are very interesting , but has a MAJOR problem with organization. There is an unclear concept of what is suppose to be done. However, our professor mention this was a test class. I agree it is a good idea to have hybrid classes. Where you do not have to always meet. As well as it creates a connection with others that are in your groups. But I feel the presentation of new technology is a little confusing presentation idea is good. But I feel there should all so be some lab activity to bring all the ideas together. As well as the world presentations to me direction is very very very unclear. I understand we broke up the world into parts. Each has there form of technology ok and that is it I dont know how this is going to be turned in a semester long project. Due to the fact this is a new class I personal would not be comfortable with presenting what I learned from this class to the Vcu president. I feel I have learn things about the new technologies available, but not enough to be an expert just general background information. Which is one of my fear with me work with a teacher. Despite the fact she never wrote us back. I feel the most helpful new technology presented so far to a teacher would be blogging for group topics, goggle docs for like more structure classroom thing like sybullus, objectives and notes, and delious with like research papers or topics.

This week in my group we prepared a good presentation. I love the country that I have choosen the china/ japan/ Korea group. I love this culture and due to my lack of knowledge about the culture makes me even more interested in knowing so much more. Now the next step I need to take is to learn the language.