Jounral for 10/31

First of all, I would like to say that I missed last week's class because I had either a bad case of food poisoning or some other bad bug that cause me to feel really sick. With that said, this journal is going to be a combination of the last two weeks because I was not able to attend last week's class and could not type a journal at that time.

Anyways, from what I remember two weeks ago, we talked about making brochures for the project that I believe will be for a project due a week from today. Knowing how to make a brochure as a teacher is an important skill to know because you can have your students create brochures themselves about the content that they are learning. Also, you can show them an example of what a "good" brochure looks like by making one yourself. However, I would not necessarily say I learned this great skill from this class because I have already dealt with making brochures on a number of occassions during my academic career, so this was not new to me.

The other thing about two weeks ago is that I presented my web 2.0 project to the class during the first week of presentations for this assignment. After doing the research and making the powerpoint presentation about my site, Wikispaces, I feel that I have become somewhat of an expert on the program. Additionally, I feel that I did at least fairly well on my presentation. I have to admit I was a little nervous and wanted to "just get it over with already" prior to my presentation, but once I got up there, the presentation just seemed to flow naturally. I think I "sold the product" to the audience by giving them a basic idea of Wikispaces so I feel that it went pretty good.

I am guessing that we spent a large part of last week's class on the Google sites assignment that is due today. I myself have completed most of the assignment but I have run into an issue over the part about "inserting a calendar". I have been tried emailing you, toying with it in many different times and different ways, and watching youtube videos, but I am not sure if the issue I am dealing with is an easy, quick fix. I guess I will just have to ask you prior to our class in 45 minutes. The point is I wish was able to make it to class last week so that I would not have this problem about how to insert a calendar into my Google site.