Hello to all my classmates and Dr. Rivera. I wish to tell you all that you did a wonderful job on our presentation this past class. Job well done guys.
Have a great Thanksgiving everyone! Don't eat too much, Xmas is around the corner.

Jay

Happy Thanksgiving!

Dear ED638 Students,

Happy Thanksgiving! Enjoy the holiday with your family, and be sure to give them thanks for supporting you in your academic endeavors. Good luck with completing your final course requirements!

Best regards,
Dr. Rivera

Everybody did a wonderful job on their presentations! Thank you to everyone for putting up with me on mine. The third time is a charm! I'm going to work on my Live Text as soon as I am done with my Diagnostic Case Study for ED643. I hope that everyone has a wonderful Thanksgiving! Take Care!

I enjoyed everyone's presentations this evening, it was a fun and enjoyable class. I learned a lot from everyone, and got some great lesson ideas for the future. I hope everyone has an easy time uploading to Live Text; we are on the final stretch now! Happy Thanksgiving!

We are almost done. The lesson plans and Google Earth tours were very interesting and show some of the diversity of this fascinating internet tool.

I located a Google Earth manual that is well written. I showed me exactly how to develop a Google Earth tour and save it without a glitch. Access it at the following link if interested: http://ed638blog4greg.blogspot.com/

Have a great Thanksgiving!

Technology Tools

Dear All,

Please see my Technology Website showcasing tools I've personally found useful -

http://jaytechnology.blogspot.com/

-Jay

Congratulations!

Congratulations, everyone! You did an excellent job! I'm sure the audience left with resourceful information to enhance their ESL instruction! Enjoy the memorable picture I've uploaded with our keynote speaker, Dr. Kate Reynolds!

Best regards,

Dr. Rivera

Almost There

I think we are almost at the top, just a few more yards. Excellent job this past Friday! I'm glad that we got to be a part of the Language Arts Conference. Great team effort! See you all tomorrow.

I am now on the right track and it took the good Dr. to put me there. So guys I am sorry that I am a little slow but I will get there believe me. You guys are great and I really can not say enough about you and the presentation that you put on the other night. Thank you also for the helpful information that you have gave to me. Happy Thanksgiving to everyone!

My classmates were great during their presentation and I did learn alot. Dr. Rivera you were right about my posting and I am going to wait until class to let you see and show me how to place my writings from one area to another. But yes I did do what you asked me to do in my writings.

A round of applause to everyone!

I would just like to say a job well done to everyone for their hard work in the conference. Let's continue our momentum and get the rest of our assignments done as the semester is coming to an end. See everyone on Thursday!

Victory is Ours!

Well guys...we did it! I think our presentation was a success even with the few Internet glitches we had which is to be expected when relying on the Net. I think everyone presented their websites very very well...a good job by all! I actually can't believe the conference is over; it seemed so far away at the beginning of the semester. Before you know it, we'll be presenting our Live Text portfolios and heading off to enjoy the holiday season. I'll email the presentation tonight or tomorrow!

See you all in class!
Kate

I know that we will all do an excellent job tomorrow and if we don't then we can all laugh about our experience one day. I wasn't looking forward to tonight's dry run, but it wasn't that bad at all. I know that I can talk fast and can ramble on and on. In many ways I am more anxious in getting this presentation done so I can concentrate on my other assignments. Take Care!

I think tonight's rehearsal went very well. We all have a great idea of what we will say and everyone seemed well versed in their presentations. I will double check the links again tomorrow, hopefully we will not have any glitches. I'm looking forward to it being 8pm Friday night; I really do not like standing up in front of people. Still, I think everyone who attends our presentation will go home and check out the websites for themselves.

Kate

Well, we are down to the last 24 hours... I will be happy when we are done with this presentation. We all worked hard and I hope that we do a respectable job. I will try to rehearse more and shorten some of my presentation.

Thanks to all of you for working together and producing this slide show and presentation. Although it may not be as engaging as watching a suspense thriller, we did come up with some useful technology tools and top-rated websites.

I am glad that we had the chance for a practice run tonight. I think everyone did a great job and I can not wait to get this over and done with. Hopefully I don't have nightmares about tomorrow's presentation tonight. I'm really looking forward to our Geocities presentations. Just love those virtual field trips. See you all tomorrow.



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Boy does time fly, we will be presenting next Friday. Our practice run in class was very good, it definitely showed me what parts of my presentation need work. Maybe during our presentation on Friday we can give each other signals in case we go over the time limit. We definitely have a good product, it's just a matter of presenting it informatively.

Once again, I would like to thank Kate for putting all of our slides together. Great job!

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Dress rehearsal for the dress rehearsal

We had a productive meeting tonight. We put the finishing touches on the power point and made a practice run. We hit the 45 minute time slot well, and we all now have a good idea of where we need to make improvements to fine tune our part of the presentation. I know by next week we will all feel more comfortable in what we want to say and what we want to highlight at each of the websites.

See everyone next week,
Kate

dry runthrough....

We had a dry run on our presentation tonight. All of us went to the sites that we will present on and tried to talk 4-5 minutes per site. We learned a lot about some of the problems that we may encounter. I also realized that I need to make notecards and start practicing so that I do not become disoriented and sound disorganized when I present.

It was a good practice session though. Next Thursday should see major improvements for the final rehearsal and we should be ready to go on Friday.... hopefully.

We did our dry run tonight at the computer lab. Kudos to Kate for working hard on our powerpoint presentation. I think we all did fine. I am going to practice more on my part.

On Google Earth, I decided to do an Ocean Unit and develop lesson plans that revolve around my three sites which are the Cushing Zoo, Underwater World and Fish Eye which are all on Guam. Have a great weekend everyone!