Last year at this time EDUC 675 was struggling to find emails for everyone. This year we are just sorting out which email addresses work best for everyone. The EDUC Survey indicates that many of you are bloggers, have experience with presentation tools, are Wordle fans, many of you are Google Docs users and at least one of us is a Skype user. I'm looking forward to learning so much from all of you... as a former boss of mine used to say, "All of us are smarter that any one of us".
Keep your eye on my blog... every time I see an interesting site I'll add it as a blog entry (you can do the same to your blog). I'll keep documents in the 'file' section of Google Groups. Future assignments/projects will refer to sites (on my blog) and documents (on Google Groups).
I think our class size is stabilized at 18... 6 groups of 3. See the class list in Groups to find your work group partners and exchange emails. You are expected to read and comment on partners' blog entries every week (click on the word 'comments' at the end of each blog entry). Comment on my blog once in a while.
If you get stuck or feel you are not getting all the info you need let me know. I'll do my best to direct you to a source of help (I may not give you a direct answer). Also, use your work group partners for help and email the whole group if you have a question that merits lots of input. EDUC 675 is big on virtual community.
Again, we are about: Communication, collaboration, and creativity. Let's keep the chatter going... do any of you Tweet? What can we add to Google groups to facilitate communication? Try working as a work group on a single document. Look for stuff I don't know about.
As you can imagine I get dozens of emails and notifications about who has accessed what... if you can't access a document or don't seem to have the right permissions and you don't hear from me within 24 hours email me directly at heigle.1@att.net with a clear statement of what you need (what document, what site, etc.).
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I enjoyed the first class, and meeting you. I'm glad to gain more experience using googledocs, and other internet tools. I plan to sit down and get hacking away at the projects for class this week. We'll see how the quarter goes!
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