6 hours Straight! New Record – Activity Reflection #5
There are definitely not enough hours in the day for the things that I want to complete. This week for my graduate course Fundementals of Technology for Educators we were to create a curriculum page of a storytelling activity for our students to complete. I got very excited about this and felt that it was going to be an easy task. I have heard of wiki spaces, but have not ever had the opportunity or reason to actually create one before this week. I already had the activity decided so I thought I was just going to be writing up the details of the activity and linking the URL’s I had collected the prior week in my Diigo account into my newly created wiki space. However, this was not the case. Over the weekend and on Tuesday night I looked through all of the links that my professor had provided for use to look at to get ideas for setting up our own curriculum page. I was overwhelmed with the amount of information and ideas. One project that caught my attention was a webquest created by Jessica Levene on 21st Century Poets. After viewing her project I decided that I must present my curriculum page the same way. This task alone took me 6 hours. In PBworks wiki spaces I created 3 pages to explain the activity: Introduction, Task, and Process. All three of these pages have links for my students to research the activity, link to tutorials to teach the students how to present their project, and links to examples of final projects for students to view. I tried embedding Youtube videos into the wiki spaces, but I was unsuccessful. With the amount of time I had spent creating these pages and getting all the URL’s, I decided to hold off embedding these videos until I have had more time to practice and research how to correctly. I feel that if there were more hours in the day or if I had better time management skills this assignment for my graduate course would have been less overwhelming. It is hard to manage my time when I get so excited about the technology and I do not want to stop an assignment until I have completed it. I need to learn how to walk away from a project and reserve time throughout the week to complete assignment.
Well, here it goes…My final rough draft…Please check it out The Golden Ratio
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WOW, I can really tell that you put a lot of time and thought into your idea. I spent more time on redoing my idea this week :-)
ReplyDeleteTricia said "It is hard to manage my time when I get so excited about the technology and I do not want to stop an assignment until I have completed it."
Time flies when I am sitting in front of the computer trying to get everything done that I need to. I also feel like time just slips through my fingers. Not sure it is a time management issue but you are so dedicated! I hate leaving things half done. Would I ever stop grading a essay 1/2 through no, so why would we think to walk away before we are finished. I really like your page, the students will love the creativity and time you put into it!
I must tell you that this is impressive on so many levels. First off the time spent consecutively was a real commitment. I would really like to explore more about your front page, was I correct in thinking it was from Glogster? I to had a mission impossible them as my finished project but as nerdy as I am Star Wars will probably sneak in at some point. As you mentioned that there wasn’t enough time, I think we would need to create the foundation in the summer and add on throughout the year.
ReplyDeleteI think you are well on your way and creating a model page. I have struggled to get what I want done, but I see you used PBworks, I found it better in terms of navigation then wikispaces. There was also I felt more space to create what I wanted done. I created straight from the wiki itself but found it took more investigating then I had planned, at one point I almost wanted to go back to the easier wikispaces.
I think that you did a great first week’s worth of work, If we didn’t have deadlines we could have taken up to 4 weeks or a month to get our ideal wiki. But we must all pull together to make it through. Last I wanted to give some clapping for being mentioned on the week’s notes. This must have been a great boost for you. Keep up the work, as I hope to achieve the success that you have.