A Busy Week to Come
Geesh! I have not been posting here very often. That’s about to change. The week ahead brings with it many, many events…for me at least.
Monday:
We have our all-day website work…er…day…all…um…day long. (Sorry for the redundancy.) The goal is to have every-one’s website ready to post with all the pages and links set up. There is no set agenda except to work on our sites. This has me so excited that I’ve finally updated my site. I also plan on figuring out drop down menus for the few people who have inquired about them. If you have any other skills or features you’d like covered, post it on the comments of this blog or ask me during the session. Angie, the woman from the module cover, will be there through the morning to assist. Ruth may stop in as well.
Tuesday-Wednesday:
I will not be out to your schools since I have a conference presentation on which to work (more on that later) and to visit two university classes in order to present on blogging. One class is a Web 2.0 writing course taught by my wife’s colleague, Donna. The Wednesday class is actually at Ohio State-Marion. I’ll be talking to my friend Ben’s first-year writing class via iChat on the same topic. My mentioning this is to demonstrate the direction writing at the college level is heading. Your work with eMINTS in using technology in your classrooms will have effects on your students’ future academic endeavors!
Thursday-Friday:
The eMINTS Winter Conference takes place over two days. This is a conference you all attend in your second year in eMINTS. Some of you may even be inclined to present…nudge, nudge, wink, wink.
I was volunteer…I mean, I offered up my services to present on classroom blogging. The hope is that the bandwidth at our conference’s hotel will hold up so that 44-46 people will be able to read and comment on a blog I’m setting up just for the conference. If all goes well, I will have to do very little talking, the participants will experience blogging, guide their own learning, and start their own blogs.
If you are interested in the blogging going on in my session, check here later in the week.
Besides updating my website, I have reorganized my del.icio.us account to include bundles of the tags. Bundles are one way to better organize your bookmarks. It’s sort of like grouping your bookmarks into multiple folders tagged with a theme and then grouping those folders again in multiple folders. It should make my del.icio.us account easier to navigate.
The week is going to end with a weekend long film festival here in Columbia. True/False features documentary films from all over the world that cover a wide range of topics from issues of globalization to teenage angst. My wife and I plan to attend 14 films! I should be ready to get back to the calm serenity of classroom visits and training sessions on March 4th.
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Thought I’d check out your blog. Sounds like a very busy week! Have fun at the film festival. I’ve always thought that sounded like fun, but we’ve never made it there yet. We were in Columbia Tuesday night to see Drive-By Truckers at the Blue Note. One of my husband’s favorite bands. It was fun.
Posted February 28, 2008, 6:11 amI was so used to no one responding to my posts that I didn’t even check to see if someone had commented.
It turned out to be an even crazier week. My wife’s grandmother died Monday morning, and we had to fly to Detroit for the funeral. I didn’t get to present on blogging at the conference, but we did return in time to see several excelent films.
The Drive-By Truckers? Really? Jolleen, I’m so impressed.
Posted March 6, 2008, 7:45 amI’m sorry to hear about your wife’s grandmother. I’m glad you still got to see the films, though.
Posted March 6, 2008, 8:16 am