My First Blog Post

Hello World

How and When To Get Help

How Will you incorporate the Help Desk into your class?
              I hope to keep the Help Desk usage to a minimum.  I usually employ the tactic to ask 2, then ask me before you ask the Help Desk.  I'm sure that I will not have many answers early in the class, but as the year progresses, I hope to use the Help Desk less frequently.

How Can I Integrate Globaloria Into My Class?

• What apprehensions do you have about games in your classroom?

            I'm not sure there is anything that I will be apprehensive about.  I feel that this 

            may be a great way to convey information to students.

• What are a couple topics students may choose that you already see as difficult topics to steer away from?

            Since the topics will be STEM related with an emphasis on mathematics, it will be a 

            challenge to motivate students to pick topics that require a depth of understanding             in math.  I will try to dissuade students from looking at math topics in beginning 

            Math I or lower.

• What are a couple topics you could steer towards?

            I will attempt to steer most of my students toward Math II or Math III topics such 

            as Geometry topics in Math II or factoring problems in Math III.

• What needs to be looked at when evaluating academic merit of a game?

            Does the game address the desired objectives in a challenging yet attainable 

            manner?

• How do you see your class playing out during the school year, and which parts of the Globaloria experience do you see your students completing?

            Since the class is totally dedicated to Globaloria, I expect the class to complete the

            agenda as put forth by the company.  

• Where do you see yourself needing extra assistance?

            The first year that I teach the class, I will probably need to be reminded where I can

            find certain things as I need them.  After that, I hope to be more independent.

Intro To Flash

What are you most excited to work on during this course?
          As I get back into some computer programming, I have to refresh my knowledge.  I think that it will be exciting to see students begin to realize how much they can do in creating games.

Manage Student Activity

Having everything available online is exciting.  When students can see everything they have done in a timely fashion and get regular feedback for it, then they tend to retain much more interest.  The fact that everything is available to parents also is good.

Create Accounts

Blogging is becoming less of an issue.  I will get it streamlined before long.  Addition of new students into classes seems pretty easy.  It will only be a matter of time before I have mastered the process.

SLP vs PDP

What is the difference between the School Learning Platform (SLP) and the Professional Development Platform (PDP)?
       The SLP is for your school while the PDP is for the teacher as a training device.
What is the trick that allows you to work on both platforms at one time?
        Each one must be logged on separately on separate browsers.
How do you customize the homepage of your SLP?
         Use the edit tab.
Link to the homepage of your School Learning Platform.
        http://www.myglife.org/usa/nchs/index.php/Main_Page
What are you most excited to learn during this course?
        This course will make me become more familiar with computer usage in developing programs and communications.