EDM 310 Class for 11/24

Class,

Today, we will do the last assignment for Foliotek. On eCollege, I posted a word document that you need to download and fill in the required information. We will do it in class and upload it to Foliotek [290-3-3-.03 (5)(c)5.(ii) Knowledge of safe, responsible, legal and ethical uses of technologies including fair-use and copyright guidelines and internet-user protection policies.]

Make sure that you have all five Foliotek standards in before we finish class next Monday. I cannot give you a grade in the course without all of the Foliotek standards loaded.

I will also give you a Final Review sheet that we will go over and make sure that you can complete.

The Final for this class will be next Monday December 2nd during our normal class period.

Thanks

EDM 310 Class for 11/17 and 11/19 - Microsoft Access

We will work on the Access project this week and we will put it into Foliotek.

EDM 310 Class for 11/10 and 11/12 - Microsoft Access

Good Monday Class!

I appreciate everyone for being so understanding last week. It was a great conference and Knoxville this time of year was absolutely beautiful. We are in the home stretch for this course and I know you all are busy and looking forward to the end of the semester.

This week we will talk about Microsoft Access. Microsoft Access is a powerful program to create and manage your databases. A computer database is a structured collection of records or data that is stored in a computer system. It has many built in features to assist you in constructing and viewing your information.

Google Documents does not have a database program yet. Database will round out our knowledge of software that can assist us in our classrooms. The others being Google Docs (similar to Microsoft Word), Google Presentation (similar to Microsoft PowerPoint) and Google Spreadsheet (similar to Microsoft Excel).

EDM 310 CLASSES 11/3 and 11/5

Everyone, Today (11/3) and Wednesday (11/5) there will not be an official class meeting. I am going out of town early tomorrow morning for a conference in Knoxville, Tennessee where I will be presenting two papers. I am going to be working on my presentations today and will be taking care of business throughout the building in preparation for me being gone all week. The room will be available to you to finish up any of the assignments that you have not completed today and Wednesday. If you are finished with all assignments and don't have any questions then enjoy your week off. If you have any questions or need to see me I will be around until about 4:30 today.

Also, please take time tomorrow to go vote and have your voice heard!

Thanks and I will see everyone next week.

EDM 310 Class for 10/29

Today, we will complete our professional blog assignment. If you have completed it please send me the link by email so I can view it. Just a reminder try and make sure that you spend some time using the internet to back up some of your points. For example, if you say that you like google documents then list some of the pros like 1. it is free 2. it is web based 3. it can be shared etc.

Also, next week I will be out from Tuesday through Friday presenting two papers at MSERA's conference in Knoxville, Tennessee. Here is the link to the conference program with my listings on page 4 under Mathematics Education and on page 8 under Constructivism (http://www.msera.org/download/2008program.pdf).

We will have class on Monday 11/3 but I will be out of town on 11/5.

EDM 310 Classes for 10/28 and 10/30 - Professional Blog Assignment

1. Everyone, thank you for your understanding last week. I missed a couple of days of work due to a stomach virus that my youngest daughter, Jill (4), and I suffered from.

2. This week we will develop a professional blog that will take the place of the The Web Site Project. It is now a Blog Assignment with specific parameters. The blog is to be created in such a way that it will provide a PROFESSIONAL description of you as a teacher and at least 5 tools, attitudes approaches that you will bring to your classroom. There are two links to the instructions for completeing this assignment and an example of this assignment at the top right hand corner of this blog. We will spend the next two meetings completing this assignment.

3. I have graded all of your assignments up to the Google Spreadsheet. Please check to make sure you are not missing any grades and if you are please complete them and let me know through email.

Class for Today 10/20 - Finish Google Spreadsheet Assignment

Class,

I have a number of class members who have not finished their google spreadsheet assignment. Today, you will have the class period to finish the assignment and turn it in to me using the share feature. If you have finished the assignment, then you may look it over and make sure everything is correct. Otherwise, you are excused from class today if you have turned it in and are satisfied with the end product.

Thanks,
Mr. Tashbin