Field Supervisor Web Conference #3 - Final One!!!

June 27, 2012 at 5:30 pm. My 3rd and final web conference with my Field Supervisor Dr. Ralph Draper. Feels good to have this part finished on my way to my Master's degree. There are so many things to remember and so many deadlines to meet that finishing one requirement is a great feeling.

As the meeting began there were a few technical difficulties on Dr. Draper's part but we were able to begin at 5:35 pm. Dr. Draper went through the participants to see what meeting they were on and verifying whether this was their 1st, 2nd, or 3rd meeting. 

Next Dr. Draper asked each of us to discuss our internship and research to see where we were. He also asked that we share any ideas and/or suggestions as to how to make this better for future students. Many of the comments again go back to forms and streamlining the assignments. That has been difficult but it is getting better and I believe that the Blackboard will help.

When it was my turn I agreed that the forms and having the wrong assignments has caused confusion and frustration and hopefully things will get better with the implementation of Blackboard as compared to EPIC. I also agreed that these web conferences are very helpful because we get to see each other as well as have a lot of questions answered in person which makes everything clearer for us.

The rest of the time Dr. Draper reassured us that there would be more web conferences for those that needed to do some more web conferences with the field supervisor and wished luck those of us who are finished . He also made sure that we knew he was always available for anything in the future and to feel free to contact him if need be. We ended at 6:00 pm. Done!

Field Supervisor Web Conference #2

 June 19, 2012 at 5:30. My second Field Supervisor Web Conference. The first thing we discussed was whether or not we had any problems or questions as far as our classes were going, namely our internships and action research projects. One participant had a question about key assessments and another had one about the forms that seem to be wrong. Dr. Draper wrote down the key assessment question because no one really had an answer. He then addressed the question about forms, he told us that any of the forms we use will be accepted, that there are so many out there that the school will accept whichever one we turn in. Next he was interested in how our internship and Action Research projects are going. Each student went through where they were in their own internship activities and action research activities. He was interested in where we were and asked questions of us, seemingly to get to know us a little. I told him about mine, the Paperless classroom, and he stated he was interested in seeing the results of how much paper is used with the iPads compared to without.

He stated that at this point there are only two people signed up for the meeting on Saturday but he will let us know if more show up. Another student stated she would be there so that puts us at three, we only need one more to reply. i am hoping to get it done so I have completed my requirements so I will wait and see what happens, I should know by Thursday. That seemed to be everything so Dr. Draper wished us a good evening. We ended at 6:02 pm.

5363 Web Conference #3

This week I missed the Saturday web conference live, but I watched the recording. Dr. Abernathy gave us info on the podcast, mainly that we need to have a partner to share our work with so that we can get input and learn in a professional learning community.  She also clarified that we could do a podcast or vodcast, either would work. She also went through the field experience information and clarified that the web conference we have with our field supervisor did not replace the web conferences we have in class, or the reflections we must do for the class. I figured that but it was a good idea to make it clear. She then went on to discuss "flipped classroom" and how to implement it and understand how it works and helps our students. She then explained that the 3,4,5 video needs to be a core curriculum video because the core is what the students get tested on. Luckily my group is already on this track and we have decided on Science. We are to think about areas that our school needs to use to improve test scores, and Science is always an area that needs improvement. She specified that we need to make sure to share our google doc with her and our IA, our evidence of teamwork. The stress was on team, to make sure that we work together and that we all agree with what happens as a team. She said our video should only be 90 seconds but she would take up to 2 min and max 2:30 minutes. She also wanted us to read articles in the resources area to help us understand what we are expected to do. Use video as a technique to engage students and then we can learn to make our own videos with our students. This would be great in my school since our students all have iPads!!! She also told us about 2 places we can use to share files, dropbox and sugarsync as well as mediafire added by our IA.

5363 Web Conference #2

This week we went over a few more pointers about our work. Dr. Abernathy opened the floor to any questions and concerns we may have. There was still a question of the assignments still being the older ones, but I myself have the correct ones. Dr. Abernathy is sending that information to her technical contacts to ensure that the students all get the right forms. There is a random "Web Conference" assignment listed, but it is to be ignored and should not be there. She also informed us that we will be moving to "Blackboard" in August and this should alleviate any of these types of problems. 

There was also a concern about posting to YouTube and the privacy concerns it brings up. One classmate did not want to post there and embed her file to the ePortfolio because she felt it was too public. Dr. Abernathy stated not to worry, there was no reason to be concerned about our privacy on YouTube, and that this was part of the work we are learning. I gave her advice about how to embed and other classmates also added their input about it. 

Dr. Abernathy also told us we would have to reflect on 3 web conferences that we have participated in this session. I have decided to keep up the routine of reflecting here so that I can remember what was said and then I can come back and copy/paste this information into my assignment.

5363 Podcast

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5363- Digital Video Reflection

Making the Personal digital video was a fun experience. At first I was a little blocked about what to do it on. I wanted something somewhat inspirational and at the same time not be too cheesy. I had already made a 30 second video about my kids and niece/nephews so I didn't want to repeat that theme. Once I settled on the education theme I couldn't sleep because of all the ideas I had.

I made the story board after I gathered the pictures and wrote the script. I am not a big story board fan, but I wanted to make sure I did everything asked of me.

I shared my script and storyboard with my classmate/cohort-mate Nancy and she had some great input.

Making the video was not difficult in and of itself. I used stupeflix, (which I actually chose because I liked the name). It was very user friendly and did not have too many bells and whistles, just exactly what I needed.

HOWEVER, I almost panicked at one point because in the end I found out that I needed to pay a subscription to share my video. This made me mad because I had worked a lot of hours on this and did not want to start over or pay a subscription fee. I found out that I had earned 1 free video just for joining and used it as soon as I could. I did not like the fact that I would have to send requests to my friends and family email to earn more, I never give out their information.  I really hate it when the software states "free", when they only mean free account and the rest costs money, but all in all the assignment is done.

Hope you enjoy and I can't wait to see what my classmates come up with.

5363- Personal Digital Video "My Educational Journey"