EDLD 5363 Web Conference Reflections

Web Conferences Attended:
June 4, 2013 at 5:30 p.m.
June 10, 2013 at 5:00 p.m.
June 28, 2013 at 10:00 a.m.

Web Conference #1 - June 4, 2013 at 5:30 p.m.
This was the first web conference for our new class.  Dr. A reminded everyone to always read the weekly overviews, and to make sure that the assignment documents had May, 2013 at the bottom of the page to ensure that they were the correct documents.  Dr. A discussed that in this course we would have a team video assignment, and to get your team members as soon as possible.  At that very moment, I went to our class Facebook page and began the search for a team.  Within seconds I had my team formed.  I would be working with Nikki Looper and Wendy Hickman (the best teammates ever, I might add)!  Dr. A announced that we would need to read the 7 changes in the Announcement section on Blackboard, and that the first 2 readings this wee would be the most important.
We learned some specifics about this week 1 assignment about creating your own personal digital story.  We would be allowed to use still images, and we didn't have to speak but it would probably make more sense if you did.  I already knew that I would use iMovie for my personal digital story.  I hadn't used this program yet, and I knew it was already on my computer.  We were also supposed to post this video to our google site and blog.  Dr. A informed that we were to copy our video script into the discussion board this first week.  She discussed that scoopit.com is a great resource for digital learning and multimedia.  We were also instructed to give our IAs the links to our websites and blogs so that they can utilize them for grading purposes.  Dr. A also announced that our week 5 assignment would be graded and posted in TK20.

Web Conference #2 - June 10, 2013 at 5:00 p.m.
In this week's web conference we discussed the weekly assignment.  We were to write "how to" scripts  for screencasts on how to use audacity and iMovie.  We would submit these to our google site and blog.  For Audacity we were to create a 1 minute quick start on how to use the video editing software.  I was looking forward to getting started on this week's assignment, and learning something new considering I had never used Audacity before.  This week's web conference was short yet informative.

Web Conference #30 June 28, 2013 at 10:00 a.m.

This week's web conference started out with different students speaking about their experience at the ISTE conference.  Carla spoke first about going to ISTE, and how she learned a great deal about BYOD, and how to utilize it in her own school.

Abernathy spoke more about ISTE as well.  There seemed to be a great deal of exciting stories from this conference.  Wish I lived closer so that I could have attended.  

Dr. A said that she would put a link in week 4 and 5 so that we can post in the discussion board at the end of week 5.  The purpose of the discussion is to review eachother’s work.  Put our final google site link in BB with our video attached by week 5.  At the end of week 5 make sure that you post everything to your google site.   Make sure your link your google shared group drive to your personal google site.

Dr. A spoke about how finding new ways to collaborate is fun, and that is what this group project is all about.    Spoke about how using google docs is a great way to communicate and share information with groups.

We were reminded to post your reflection about the 3 times that you attended the web conferences in our blogs.

Students shared the links to their google sites, so that others can see examples.

Attending these web conferences can take time out of your day, but are usually full of great information that you can use to help get jump started on your weekly assignment.  I attended at least 1 web conference per week, and have found this to be extremely helpful in getting assignments completed.