Hi Dawn,
Well, it has been a long time since I have communicated with you. I got really busy with setting up our units for our cybersophs next year, getting registered for two weeks of Advanced Technology in teaching and learning workshop, responding to the invitation to serve on the committee to set cut scores for proficiency levels on our South Dakota STEP test, and a million other things. We have one more week to go in cybercomp 10. Kids are finishing research papers. About half the class is finished and doing some other things for fun while we wait foor the rest to finish. Their deadline in next Tuesday, so Ihope they all make it. I have learned a lot this semester and have a whole file of changes I am going to make for next year. Some things worked great, others not so great. I had plenty of resources for my kids, but a few of them just did not go to them and read them. There are still two whose first move is to ask me how to do something, even though I have put step by step directions online. But these are the same kids that in a traditional class do not look at the handouts or listen when you give directions, or copy notes from the board and then ask you for more help two days past the due date. I have discovered that the cyber class works really well with my Special Ed kids. They do need a bit more help, but they also take to the computer things like mad.
Of course now I have a bunch of research webs and other things to grade. We are ending our semester with a film and a reflective cyber journal. The film gives me time to grade things for my seniors for whom I have to turn in grades by 8:00 Thursday Morning, even though our year doesn't end until Friday.
Any chance at all that you will get to SF? Even to help with the workshop. Wouldn't that be the same as presenting for your school to help pay for it. I really wanted a chance to talk to you F2F. Maybe we can meet in the MOO sometime. Which reminds me, Where have you been in the MOO lately?
I will write more later. Have a good rest of the year and let me know how the rest of your year goes.
Pat