1/9/10 New Year and New Faculty Advisors

Unlike last year, all of the seniors were present (in Ann’s class anyway). Ann started off the class with a Learn@UW quiz. Pari and Alex came in two minutes late so finished the quiz as Ann was discussing it. None of the seniors have heard back from UW, some of the seniors worked on their project over break, and only one senior had heard about the Chancellor Scholarship program. After the quiz, the students updated their Google doc with their faculty advisor meeting dates, project description, and PLC sign ups. For next session, there are four students who want to take permit tests and 3 students that want to take road tests. Instructors will need to plan accordingly with getting the necessary files. The students already had a dropbox created from the first session, so the lesson went very fast. Letara had some problems with her dropbox account, but for the most part the step-by-step activity went smoothly.

After this first activity, Ann gave the students their progress reports. Brenda and the video group did not understand clearly what Ann had written but they just came to ask her for clarification. None of the students seemed extremely upset with the comments.

Pa Ying did not seem interested in what Ann had written so she went over to talk to her and show the website she had referenced. This was the 2007 student photo gallery. Ann also showed Pa Ying the use of pre-made photoshop galleries. Pa Ying was very intrigued with this feature. She spent the rest of the class playing around with this feature.

Kiki is currently having issues with her non-profit group. The group is not responding in a timely fashion to her e-mails and she is getting extremely frustrated. The non-profit e-mailed her a .mod file to make a video and Kiki had to ask the group to convert it to an .avi so that she could edit. The non-profit group is not enthusiastic about making the change, so instructors may need find out a way to convert .mod to .avi. She spent all of the certification period working on her portfolio.

Tenzin today spent the entire period working on his portfolio. He updated his projects and expanded more on his explanation.

Williams just worked on his Capstone project. (MEDiC) He started to type the information on his brochure. It should not take him more than next period to finish everything. He e-mailed Farah but did not get a response back. There may be a new contact person Williams will need to talk to but he is currently unaware of any changes.

Brenda, Alex, and Pari (who left early) all worked on their portfolios. Brenda is just making sure her design is sliceable. Alex updated the content of his portfolio. Pari was only here for 20 minutes during certification and he worked on creating the basic design.

Amanda updated AHANA’s new calendar and worked on the flyer template. Right now the group is having issues with Letarra’s time commitments. Today she left early but did not tell Ann  why.

All of the students wrote professional e-mails. Ann did not have to modify them too much. Instructors will need to contact mentors and make sure that the students actually uploaded files to the drop box. Also, the students were very committed to having good blogs. Some students stayed 10 minutes after class to finish their project.