Life really is a roller coaster. Yesterday I felt like one of those prairie dogs I see smooshed by the side of the road when I’m driving, but today I was frolicking in the fields. O.k. not quite frolicking. I worked on a sample powerpoint presentation (log in as a guest and click on sample powerpoint presentation) that my students will create at the beginning of the school year. Students will be charting their progress on school-wide tests in reading, math, science, and social studies, and setting goals for each of these content areas. They will also chart their CSAP scores. All of this will be shown at conferences. I also discovered why my links went dead yesterday. On the virtual campus it helps to think ahead when you want to link to a document or file. You need to go into files and create a folder to put this in and then you upload the file or document into that folder, choose that document and save. I did it a bit backwards, so it was like I had moved and forgot to tell everyone where to find me. All is fixed now.
Roller Coaster-Are you on for the ride?
June 10th, 2008 · 3 Comments
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sueahlberg
// Jun 10, 2008 at 4:03 pm
Great. Now you’ll have to show me how to do that. Good progress. Glad to hear more upbeat.
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johrt
// Jun 11, 2008 at 1:01 am
How in the heck did you make those graphs be animated in your slide show?
I’ve even taught PPT classes (to big and little) people and I don’t know how to do that. Clue me in tomorrow, OK?
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dogtrax
// Jun 11, 2008 at 3:58 am
Will students use Powerpoint as the platform for their portfolios?
Interesting.
Then, they can link to different files, right?
Will all of their documents be PP slides or will PP just be the launch site?
(I ask this because I have considered something similar for my students)
On another note: I run a feature called Day in a Sentence, where teachers from around the world boil down a day of their week, or their entire week, into a sentence and share it out.
I want to invite you to consider participating
http://dogtrax.edublogs.org/2008/06/11/day-in-a-sentence-is-only-a-sentence/
Kevin Hodgson
Western Massachusetts
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