Web+Conferences

EDLD5388 Week 1 August 27, 2010 Participating in many of the web-conferences has been frustrating due to technology issues of many of the participants. Ironic! Much of the time was spent with people saying they were having technical difficulties, and the course related questions of others were lost in the midst of that. The information overall being given out by the instructors has been good. It has simply been a challenge to get to that information at times due to the flood of other things happening during the webconferences.

EDLD5388 Week 2 September 2, 2010 Last night's web conference was brief but informative. Dr. Mason talked with us about the internship course, as well as a future master's program at Lamar for Technology teachers separate from the program we are currently enrolled in. She talked about logging task hours and when we can be finished with that process. Some students were asking about the timeline for finishing our portfolio versus the completion of the EDLD5388 course itself. That was helpful discussion for us to verify due dates on different things that we are working on. There were fewer people in attendance at this web conference, which is probably why there was less discussion about technical difficulties with getting webcams and microphones set up. Last night's web conference was over all very helpful to me.

EDLD5388 Week 3 September 9, 2010 Last night's web conference was helpful to me because we talked about our portfolios and our comprehensive exams. Some students were talking about an issue that I am having trouble with as well, which is maintaining the formatting in the documents that I write when I go from Word into my wiki. We also talked about sharing our sites with one another so that we can help each other with proof reading of documents before they are submitted for grading. After the conference I was able to view some of the sites of other students that they had shared during the web conference. Comparing this to my own was helpful to me to be able to see what others are doing in their own e-portfolio.

EDLD5388 Week 4 September 16, 2010 Yesterday's web conference gave lots of good information about specifics on our portfolios that we are working on. We got clarifiaction from Dr. Mason on our course and activity relfections, some APA style questions, and what needs to be changed (versus what does not) in light of this new information. We also talked about our comprehensive exam and the importance of correcting all APA style issues there over anything else that we are submitting for this course, since that is a part of the permanent record at the university.