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Use this area to ask questions about the course and/or the technology. Everyone is encouraged to read these questions often and answer any questions you know the answer to! When answering questions please refer to how you know the answer to the question, or where the answer can be found (syllabus pg#, or assignment description sheets etc..)

|| The Answer || a foldable method for our graphic organizer that we have to present to the class even though it isn't in Ch. 7? || You can always pull resources from other places when I give an assignment like this! Dr. Harland. || Also, do you have a preference on the format we use for our papers, such as MLA or APA? || The intro paragraph can just be the first paragraph of the paper. I don't care which APA or MLA, just be consistent Dr. Harland. ||  It's ok now, it might have just been an off day on Sunday || but only got to know one of them through assessments. And I ordered the first girls book but then had to switch it and my new one (third time trying this) is supposed to come in Monday, if it doesn't what should I do for my Part II. Its guaranteed by Wednesday (I think) I could turn it in Thursday if that would be possible? Oh and another thing, the student whose info I have (the one that got put into our group) I am not supposed to read her book. So how do I go about doing this? || For part 1. Do which ever student makes more sense to you. If the student YOU did the assessment on makes more sense (would be easier) do that. If doing the student whose information you have and is in your current group makes more sense do that. It doesn't matter to me.
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 * Does anyone know if we are allowed to use
 * I began my Professional Journal Assignment this afternoon and realized after looking over the rubric I had a question. Does the short introduction paragraph that is worth five points need to be on a separate page?
 * Is anyone else having trouble getting to the blog? It keeps telling me that the network cant connect || Has this problem been solved? Is anyone else having trouble? Or are we ok?Dr. Harland
 * For the professional journal assignment, I was reading the rubric and it says to write an introduction page. Should it look kind of like an abstract describing each journal, with the responses following it? I was just a little confused on how I should go about writing it. Thank you! || That introduction page, can really just be a paragraph for each journal you're using for the assignment. Describe journal name, publisher, and the audience. You'll do the summary as part of the article responses. I hope that makes sense? Dr. Harland ||
 * On our weekly schedule it says that we have to do Blog 3 Responses for Tuesday, but it doesn't say anything about blog nominations. Should I just assume that we have to do them? || Yes, responses always go with nominations! Dr. Harland ||
 * Did Dr. Harland collect Blof of Fame nominations today? I didn't turn mine in if she did and I just realized that. Can I e-mail it to you Dr. Harland? - #15 || No, everyone's turning it in on Thursday, March 5Dr. Harland ||
 * 3/19/09- Is there a limit to how many pages Part 1 and Part 2 should be? || No limit, but I prefer quality over quantity! ~Dr. Harland ||
 * Dr. Harland, I was wondering for my Part I and Part II which student I should do.For part I, I have the data for the student I assessed but then she got switched out of my group. I also have the data for a girl that got switched into our roup. I didn't know which you prefered me to write Part I on since I have data on both

And why don't you turn in BOTH parts i & 2 after your text comes in. ~Dr. Harland || it. Please let me know where it is so that I can use it as a guideline when composing my paper. Thanks so much. || Sorry for the confusion. Yes, the "Focusing Your Classroom Observations" is the one you should refer to. However, there is no need to do a "text" analysis, since we did that at Metcalf. ~Dr. Harland || I nanny for a family here in town. The two youngest children are home schooled so when the parents go out of town I homeschool their kids. I was wondering since it is actually homeschooling if I could use this for some of my additional clinical hours. I could write a paper on what I have covered/taught these kids as well as the atmosphere, etc. I could have the mom sign a sheet saying that I did in fact do this or have her sign my paper. Would this work? For some reason I can't find the "New Page" link for our database assignment. Could I be looking in the wrong place? #4 || Are you an actual member of the space? If not you'll need to "join this space." I thought everyone had joined that day we were in the computer lab! That's the only thing I can think of! ~Dr. Harland || Can the You Pick assignment be for a class of 3rd graders? or does it need to be middle level? -#15 ||  ||
 * Dr. Harland, my question is in regards to the Job Shadow paper. On the information sheet it is stated, "Follow all the guidelines in the "Middle School Field Observation" handout." I am curious as to whether or not this is merely another name for the "Focusing Your Classroom Observations" handout, or is this a different handout? If this is indeed an additional handout, where can it be located? I have checked the Wiki, but am unable to locate
 * Dr. Harland, my question is in regards to the Job Shadow paper. On the information sheet it is stated, "Follow all the guidelines in the "Middle School Field Observation" handout." I am curious as to whether or not this is merely another name for the "Focusing Your Classroom Observations" handout, or is this a different handout? If this is indeed an additional handout, where can it be located? I have checked the Wiki, but am unable to locate
 * Dr. Harland, I was looking at the Additional Clinical Hours handout and was considering doing the remaining few hours I need either doing "community observations" or "tutoring a student". I am just curious if the community observations can be done at any non-academic setting or if there are guidelines/restrictions. Also, I was wondering if I had to tutor a student using the program you have provided or if I can do so through another organization and if I should turn in anything with it? Thanks. || The community observations are supposed to be non-academic settings. I've posted a document on the clinicals page at the bottom to help. The tutoring organization needs to be approved on a one-on-one basis. Its too late to do that. ~Dr. Harland. ||
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 * 22 || If one of the kids is middle level, we can discuss it via email. ~Dr. Harland. ||
 * For the community observation description papers, should we just type out our field notes? because i kind of merged the description and the analysis together and now i've realized that this is not what you wanted. it just kind of came out that way....
 * 15 || <span style="color: rgb(24,0,255); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">.No, typing field notes is not what I want. I want an analysis of the experience. ~Dr. Harland. ||
 * Dr. H-- I was wondering how you make your rubrics. Is it in Word? or is it a special program? #12 || <span style="color: rgb(24,0,255); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">.Word is what I use, other may look funny, because I've copied & pasted a table from a web page. ~Dr. Harland. ||
 * Dr. Harland: Not a single one of my tagged words is showing up when searched. I even put in both numbers and words for the grade levels. Do you know what is wrong? #09 || <span style="color: rgb(24,0,255); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Try one word first, see what comes up. Try general words, not specific like the name of your strategy. If it helps, your strategy doesn't have to be one in the list. Just do a search/query that gets you at least 4 pages in your results. ~Dr. Harland ||
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 * Does anyone know when the FINAL BLOG is due? Thanks! || It's due tomorrow with the responses due Thursday! ||