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Hello Everyone from Section 26012! This is the classroom wiki. We will be using this space for collaboration.

Check out two timely articles:

 * **How to know if you are addicted to Facebook - 5 warning signs:** CNN article link [|here].
 * **Brain-Twitter Project (how cool!**): CNN article link [|here]

I wanted to just remind you quickly what's due this week (sent on 4/11/09) Your third artifact extension on Communication is due this Wednesday April 15th by midnight. Remember, you can't do something you've already done. The extensions are graded on the rubric. Here is all that fun info I gave you last week:
 * Your revised professional development plans (PDP) are due Monday April 20th at 8 a.m. (so a week from today).**
 * Top priority #1: Make the revisions I suggested to you from your first Professional Development plan**
 * Top priority #2: Under each goal you set for yourself, update progress toward the goals and answer the following questions:**
 * What have you done?
 * What challenges have you faced?
 * What successes have you had?
 * What do you think you still need to do?
 * How might you maintain these skills once you’ve achieved them?
 * Link to things that you’ve actually done as evidence of progress
 * May include screenshots or photographs as evidence of progress
 * When all your revisions are finished in Word, go ahead and do the following:**
 * Make sure you have a page on your ePortfolio called “Professional Development”
 * Link to the PDP page from Artifacts page (think of this as a safety measure - serves a dual navigation function)
 * **Paste the text of the revised PDP to the body copy of your Professional Development Plan page**


 * Finally, you should be updating your standards on your ePortfolio page (this is ongoing)**


 * On April 5, 2009, I wrote the following:**

The weather outside in Indianapolis is rather gloomy and I heard it's supposed to be even worse tomorrow (Monday). This is a PERFECT opportunity for you to work on your projects that are due this Wednesday April 8th at midnight, don't you think? :-)

You technically have FOUR things you need to do (and if you haven't started yet, I would doing something everyday so you are not overwhelmed come Wednesday).
 * 1) Complete the midterm exam and submit it through the OnCourse Assignments function (worth 50 points). Be sure to check out the RUBRIC for the midterm exam. I've placed it in our OnCourse Grading Rubrics Folder. You can find the actual exam under Lecture Resources (the larger folder controlled by Doug).
 * 2) Update everything on your ePortfolio and use the ePortfolio rubric to ensure that you have covered all of the requirements asked of you. The draft of your ePorfolio (worth 75 points) is due at midnight on Wednesday and it should include (see #3). ..
 * 3) Your 5th (and final!!) Artifact Proposal on Productivity. However, don't forget to. ..
 * 4) Give feedback to your partners' ePortfolios. Remember, they should have sent you a Google Form via email in class on Wednesday.

I will be in the TTL to answer your questions on Tuesday afternoon from 3:15 p.m. until 5:15 p.m. I will also be around during my normal lab hours on Wednesday from 2:30 p.m. until 4:15 p.m. I'll be doing a grading blitz on Monday and Tuesday night, so if you have questions that you want answered immediately, you can IM me through Gmail. Email also works.

I am here to help you, so please don't be afraid to ask me any questions that you may have (but also check out http://romanw200.wikispaces. com/Questions! before you do so as someone may have already had the same question as you!).



 Hi Everyone -- just a reminder of what is due this week and next: //Next week (April 1st), this is what is due:// //Next week (April 8th), this is what is due://
 * On March 30, 2009, I wrote the following:**
 * Production Artifact “Extension” due Wednesday April 1 by midnight**
 * Must be a different type than Content Exploration Artifact Extension
 * Upload to ePortfolio on same page as your Production Artifact Proposal
 * Data Analysis __Proposal__ due Wednesday April 1 by midnight**
 * Upload to ePortfolio (should be on Artifact 4 subpage)
 * Pre-final Exam (50 points)**
 * Available in Lecture Resources (open the file)
 * Submit through Oncourse Assignments
 * Note – When that assignment is closed, IT’S CLOSED
 * ePortfolio draft (75 points)**
 * Word of advice: Use the Rubric
 * Feedback is a big component of ePortfolio
 * We already made the Google forms for feedback in class
 * We will provide feedback in class on 4/1
 * I will assign you your groups


 * On March 23, 2009 I wrote the following:**

Hi Everyone,

I hope you had a lovely break and didn't think about school too much. Now that we are back in action, I wanted to remind you that you have only one thing due this week: a Communication Artifact Proposal. Technically the due date was set for Wednesday March 25th at midnight. However, I know getting back into the swing of things is tough, so if you turn it in by **Friday 3/27 at 8 a.m.** I will be happy (and will not count anything late). To make your lives easier, I have attached a new and improved artifact proposal template to this email, along with the communication cases __so you have everything you need right in this email__. I know, I rock (j/k). I think you'll find the new snowy template to be more user friendly. I do not mind if you use the old template, but you probably will like the new version, so give it a shot.

I want to stress one thing in particular as you write up your proposals. When I was grading the production proposals, I was taken aback that some of you forgot that the focus was production. For example, instead a listing options that required some sort of production activity on the part of the students, many of you suggested websites that merely provided content exploration tools (e.g. drill and practice activities) when the point of the proposal was to think of ways students could CREATE something (hence a PRODUCTION)

In the communication proposal, the students need to COMMUNICATE :-) In case you forgot what communication tools we talked about, you can always go back to the Communication PowerPoint or look at my little wiki (http://romanw200.wikispaces. com/Commun.+Tools) The list is not exhaustive, so be sure to explore relevant options that could work for your students.

To recap this email:
 * What is due this week:** Communication Proposal Due
 * When is it due:** Friday 3/27 by 8 a.m.
 * How to turn it in:** Submit by uploading the proposal to your ePortfolio on the subpage titled Artifact 3.

Let me know if you have questions. You'll have a lot to do for April 8th, but I don't want to freak you out about that now. I'll go over all of that during lab this week, so don't miss it if you were planning on skipping (just a FYI!).