A new year, a new day, a new hour

In the first new hour of the ITA year, the afternoon started with Chou being in the room instead of  Felipe. They said they are changing rooms for the rest of the year. We started on a typical Learn@UW quiz.

Eliza reviewed with the class information about their projects and which mentor each student was assigned to. If students forget, they can find any information they need on Google documents using their Gmail account. Students went into the g-document and inserted all their project information, email, blogger site. On this same g-doc spreadsheet, on a spreadsheet tab, they can set up meetings with their mentors to go over what they want to do or help with their project ideas. Students are to have at least 1 meeting during lunch with our their mentors this semester.

We went on to reviewing how to use the Dropbox program. It is a really useful program that acts like a flash drive, and keeps your files saved on an online server. This program we can install on multiple computers and as we upload and download files into it, it updates on all the computers at once. But because this is an online space that the files are being stored in, students can invite other users to share and see the files or folders that are in the Dropbox space. Students were to invite their mentor to their folders where they had stored their project.

Some notes to keep from the first hour:

1.  My Dropbox should be up to date at all times, because mentors will be checking in on our projects to help prepare us and see the progression.
2. I should keep in contact with my advisor and take responsibility for the meetings.

*** Break Time***
Students sat around the computer, surfing the web... Chou came around looking at bags doing a search, because there was a missing laptop from the morrning and Excell wanted everyone to have their bags looked at.
*** Break Over***

Students were given the next hour or so--until the next break--to work on projects. Everyone was given an evaluation sheet that was done by Ann on our projects, and everyone stated to work.

Michelle came in and announced the MLK event and asked if anyone wanted to be an usher or volunteer to help out.

Then: work work and more work

*** Break Time ***
*** Break Over***

First thing Eliza had students do after the break is to email or advisor/mentor the first email with all the information about each project. Then students made sure all their updated work was uploaded to dropbox and finished up the day with a blog.