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I had to create a flyer, progress chart, and quiz to present during a meeting with the parent of one of my children. I am currently teaching 9th grade World Geography at Harrison Central High School, so I used my class to create the projects. The flyer was probably the easiest of the three assignments. I found a free flyer template on http://www.office.microsoft.com/, which made it very simple. All I had to do was fill in my information about the meeting; I included what the meeting was for, what I would be presenting at the meeting, where and when the meeting would be held, and my contact information. I didn’t really run into any problems.
The progress report was done on Microsoft excel. I made up eight names of people instead of using the names of my real students for confidentiality reasons. I put the student’s names running down the first column in alphabetical order, and the assignment names running across the first row. I included five grades for Unit 5, and calculated an average grade for each student using the tools offered by excel. I actually found this assignment pretty easy too, even though I have had problems using excel in the past.
The quiz was done in the form of a power point presentation. I have done many ppt presentations in the past so I was able to create it pretty quickly; the only problem I ran into was adding buttons so that I could move back and forth throughout the presentation easily. I was trying to figure out how to add the buttons when suddenly my presentation disappeared, of course I hadn’t saved it yet. I was so upset, so needless to say I redid the whole thing, minus the buttons and saved it.
When I tried to submit it to drop box, I could not attach the files. I have had online classes before and have experience turning in attachment into assignment drop box. When I tried to attach the documents, the little computer that usually shows up was not there. I gave it a few minutes to load, but it never appeared, the spot was just blank. So I emailed my assignment into Dr. Wang. Overall the assignment was fairly easy, but I did run into a couple of problems.
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Not being a teeacher yat, I wondered about the confidentiality of the chart - that answered my question. I had the same problem with the attachments in another class. The instructor recommended that I use Mozilla Firefox. Dr Wang told me the same thing when I talked to her before this class started. Since I statrted using Firefox(just when using blackboard), I have not had any problems. I have never used the buttons before either - it was quite a trip trying to figure them out.
ReplyDeleteSeems like we had some of the same problems with the uploading of the documents. I was too frustrated to think about emailing Dr. Wang my attachments.
ReplyDeleteI am very interested in your experience. I understand your feeling when you lost your project after such a long time work. But you learned to save your file frequently to avoid this. I do agree with you that you have to keep credential about your students in the grade chart. Have you ever think of a way to deal with it?
ReplyDeleteAs for the submitting problem, it might be caused by your browser, or it might be the server if it occasionally happens. But FireFox is more reliable.