My week started out with a fever, chills and eventually a cold and cough. It is not easy to think clearly when your head is stuffy and has cobwebs in it! Ah, the cold and flu session is upon us this autumn quarter. My pressing problem this week was how to polish up my ePortfolio, which is one of my objectives for the internship. After listening to the people in the Women’s Center and speaking with Ann, we decided there is little to do technically. However, I did need to write a hard copy of a resume and include it in the ePortfolio.
This is where things got a bit difficult. It is a challenge to write what you have accomplished not using the word “I.” Then there is the laborious process of trying to clean up all the mistakes in grammar and spelling and layout. Since I went from the tenth grade to college, with a few years in between, I still struggle with these writing issues. In fact during the years I was a student at the various universities, I hired a company to scan my papers for errors and type them. They did this for an interesting sum of money, which I had at the time. Today, I am left to process my own work and I struggle with this task.
Two years ago, I took an online course at Cascadia Community College in order to update my skills using Microsoft Word and the other applications. I spent the most time developing my skills to use Word at the advanced level to process my various papers. Robin tells me that Microsoft Word doesn’t correct all grammar mistakes. Great! I do not have the money to hire someone to proof read my documents. The women’s Center states that your ePortfolio and resume should be perfect. As luck would have it…I am not.
My next task was to address the issue of assessment and how I will use it in the course. This week Charlene approved my objectives. Robin stopped by my office to give me two books addressing assessment, both instructor and student self-assessment and online discussions. Luckily I addressed this in my meeting with Charlene on Wednesday (before going home and crashing). Charlene gave me an instructors guide that dealt with presenting discussion questions for the course and ill-structured problems. The book gave many examples of each. I am now plowing through the reading material and the newest edition of the textbook which came to my home on Friday. I am very glad I like carrots…because I am going to need the eye protection they supposedly give the person eating them.
My next project is writing the syllabus and trying to figure out a time line for placing content in Bb Vista. Robin and I are meeting next week to work out some of the bugs of putting course material in Bb Vista. I should be able to get the shell up and running, because I now have the chapter names from the new edition. Incidentally, I did go see the BC library expert on copyright law to find out how to cite Microsoft clip art images. As General Robin (I see her as one and am still trying to decide how many stars she has) says, “…Onward!”
Retrieved image from Microsoft Online.
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