EDLD 5352 In regards to everything else...

In this course I did something that I thought I would never do. I successfully collaborated with people I never met. This amazed me, primarily due to the fact that in all my prior experiences in learning, I was never able to pull off a group project in a manner that felt as though the work-load was equally shared and everyone did what needed to be done. As far as campus internship hours are concerned, I was able to add only a handful this summer by participating in writing the master schedule and fulfilling a few other duties that are required to my new job description (District Wide Dean of Students). It seems as though it would be an easy task in a district that is composed of only a little over six hundred students, but I think that this can make it more difficult. We as a school are, what I would consider, short on teachers and therefore unable to offer as many classes as we need to offer to give students a broad base in education beyond just core classes. At the moment, I have 124 campus based internship hours. When it comes to my Action Research Project, I have completed my initial draft and only need to complete final comparisons of initial data to final data.

EDLD 5352 Web Conference Reflections (No mirror required)

Web Conference Reflections:

Week 2: Our Week 2 web conference was presented by Dr. Jenkins and Dr. Benevidez. During the week two conference, the manner and method in which the rest of this course was going to continue took place and the tone was set. In this web conference we discussed how to go about completing and submitting the Week 2 assignments as well as a brief talk about what to expect in the weeks to come.

Week 3: The Week 3 web conference was fraught with technical difficulties for the first few minutes. After we were able to get going in a productive manner, we discusses items such as the use of Livebinders in regards to their necessity to this course as well as the submissions in Tk20 for this course. Once the conversation really got going and looked as though it was going to be very informative, I lost my internet connectivity and could not repair it prior to the termination of the conference.

Week Four: The web conference this week was aimed at the clarification at submission through Tk20 or actually the lack thereof. Another big topic for this week’s web conference was the discussion of PBL’s. It was mentioned by some students that on their campus or in their district, PBL’s are embraced while others mentioned that they are not so welcomed. The importance of Project Based Learning was also discussed and methods of introducing PBL’s to a campus and or district were also discussed.