grades

ahhh! the semester is over and still got one more final to go! econ! i should b able to get a B in there! *knock on wood* i rele hope to get in A in World 203! i need an A in that class in order to get my required gpa to continue my massc classes! prayin to god! 

*sigh* my butt is on the line! :[ 

Final Mentee convo.

I am soo stressed right now! There's too much to keep up with! i can't wait till finals are over! and i cant wait to go home! i just feel like screaming right now!
Anyways, for my World 203 class, we have selected a teacher to mentor in a new technology! We just emailed each other today basically with our goodbyes. She said that she was really appreciated my help and i did help her! Basically here's our convo. we had through e-mail and how i helped her:

Hello!

 |

Pia Talwar to rachellynnmoses     show details

Sep 29

Dear Ms.Moses,

My name is Pia Talwar. My colleague, Dalal Bisharat, and I are in Dr. Murphy-Judy's WRLD203 class at VCU.  We have chosen you as the teacher whom we will help this semester with new technologies.  We are learning a lot in class and I look forward to sharing our new found skills with you.

So far, we have worked on Google Docs (which includes sharable word processing, spreadsheets and powerpoints), blogs and twitter. We will soon look at social networking like FaceBook, wikis (like Wikipedia but smaller, like for a class to create), and several others. 

We would like to know which web technologies you are most interested in so we can make sure to become the best possible guide for you.

We look forward to emailing with you and then getting to know you either face-to-face or by telecommunications as we journey through these powerful teaching and learning tools.

Best,

Pia Talwar and Dalal Bisharat

Rachel Moses to talwarp     show details

Sep 3

hey sorry I didn't get back to you earlier. I want to review some things that we did in that class so I can figure out which one will work the best for my Spanish classes. I will e-mail you back as soon as ! can! :)

 

take care,

Rachel Moses

 

 

Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 14:25:36 -0400

Subject: Hello!

From: talwarp@vcu.edu

To: rachellynnmoses@hotmail.com

- Show quoted text -

Pia Talwar to Rachel     show details

Sep 3

Ok! that sounds good! talk to u soon!

- Show quoted text -

Rachel Moses to talwarp     show details

Oct 13

HEY!

Sorry I have not gotten back to you recently, but i had some ideas. I want my IB students to use more of the internet for explore the Spanish language. I have a lesson plan idea that involves the students creating their own hispanic country, along with creating a currency, a government, a nationality, and making a product that only their country sells to make revenues (if that makes sense). I thought that it would be cool if they could create their own wiki page just like the pages you  see on the internet that describes all of the above about a REAL country.

is this possible for the students to make their own wiki page even if it is full of fake facts?

if this is unclear in anyway, please let me know and i'll clarify.

thanks,

rachel

|

Pia Talwar to rachellynnmoses     show details

Sep 2

 

Hi!

Sounds like an interesting project!

I am not too familiar with using and creating a wiki page, but we have learned a little bit about using them in class.  Your students can create a page using this site: http://www.wikispaces.com/

I think you can create this page for their projects under one of the private labels...not sure, but can try it out! But the students can definitely use the wiki page to create their final project with all the information they've come up with, as well as add pictures if they like. 

Even though the facts on the page are all fake, I'm not sure if the pages will get posted on google or anywhere publicly on the internet, but you can have them note on the page somewhere that the facts are made up and only created for this project so it's not falsely used by other strangers.  And perhaps when the project is over, the students can delete the page if they want. 

I hope what i said helps!

 

- Pia

- Show quoted text -

Rachel Moses to talwarp     show details

Oct 14

this helps out A LOT! i want to make sure you get credit for helping me out so if you need me to e-mail you however many times a week, i will! just let me know what i need to do so you and your parent can get the credit you need.

-Rachel 

 

Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 14:27:34 -0400

- Show quoted text -

 

Pia Talwar to Rachel     show details

Oct 18

Your welcome!

My teacher said that i do have to be emailing and helping with you for 1-2 hours a week.  And she will ask the teachers for a small report in the end with how well we helped/worked with you and thats about it.  

- Show quoted text -

Pia Talwar to Rachel     show det

ails

Oct 27

Hi! i was jw, how ur project w/the students were coming along, and

also if u have heard from Dalal, shes suppose to be my partner for

this, but i havent heard from her so i guess i'm goin solo on this!

- Show quoted text -

 

Rachel Moses to talwarp     show details

Oct 27

oh no! that stinks. i have not heard from her yet. I am still in my current unit with my students but my next unit which will take place the next 9 weeks I am going to try to incorporate this idea. If you have any other ideas that would be good with learning about different countries and their cultures please let me know! i bet you know a ton more stuff on the internet than i do! (hehe).

 

-Rachel Moses

 

> Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 13:12:07 -0400

- Show quoted text -

 

Ya, so i'll be solo on this then, no big deal.  Hmmm...I'll try to

think of other ideas for your students to learn about the different

countries and their cultures.  In class we have been working on

projects where the class was split up into 4 groups dividing up the

world.  my group covers the Southern Hemisphere which includes South

America! And since there are Spanish speaking countries in south

america, hopefully our groups should be doing a presentation in that

area soon, so that should trigger more ideas!

 

On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 3:11 PM, Rachel Moses

- Show quoted text -

 oh no way! that's awesome!!! i can't wait to hear how it goes!!

> Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:24:28 -0400

- Show quoted text -

Pia Talwar to Rachel     show details

Nov 30 (7 days ago)

Hi! I know its been a while since we've talked.  hope you had a great

thanksgiving!

I just remembered i had told you about the group global presentations

we were doing in class, and our group had done a presentation

specifically on South America! And we did it on Carnival in Brazil!

Here i attached our powerpoint we worked on...hopefully it could give

you some ideas about the project you wanted to work on with your

class.  Along with creating their own spanish country, they would

create it's culture and festivities!

- Show quoted text -

Carnival-SA.ppt 1463K   View   Download

ah, you're the best!! thank you!!!!!!!!! any ideas are welcome so i will definitely be considering this!!!

-Rachel

 

> Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 21:28:05 -0500

> Subject: Fwd: Hello!

- Show quoted text -

 

Bing brings you maps, menus, and reviews organized in one place. Try it now.

Pia Talwar to Rachel     show details

Dec 3 (4 days ago)

ur welcome! hope u liked it!

On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 9:36 PM, Rachel Moses

- Show quoted text -

Hey!

So just wanted to let you know that my semester is coming to an end

which means that my class that i'm mentoring you for is at it's end as

well! So as a heads up, i know my teacher was suppose to grade us on this, however im

not quite sure how, but i

know she is suppose to ask our teacher for a small summary of our

performance.  So i hope i helped you with discovering some new ways

with technology and ways for your students to put together

presentations!

Thank you for your time and cooperation! :]

 

-Pia

- Show quoted text -

yea, whenever i get an e-mail from her, i will tell you how you DID help me!!

hope your semester went well!! take care and good luck with everything!

-Rachel

 

> Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2009 17:35:39 -0500

stressss

omg! i have sooo much going on idk where to start! exams r coming up and trying to b on top of everything! Our final project in world 203 class is coming along well, a lot of stuff keeps changing but i think were getting it all together. As leader, im trying my best to remind everyone of meeting times that we've set up and putting in some suggestions during the meetings. Like i said, i don't rele see myself as leader material, but im trying my best! ...and for my mentee teacher, i've emailed her about our carnival presentation since she is a spanish teacher, to help her with ideas for her project that shes assigning her students. And i got a response back from her saying that she loved it!
anywaysss i got a lot to go today! cant wait till finals r over and break is here!! 2more weeks!!
pc!

back to work!!

well thanksgiving break is over and its back to work!! :/ 

i cant believe this semester is almost over! last week of classes and then next week is all finals! it's deff. going to b hectic! Well i got an email back from my mentee teacher! thought she forgot bout me! Well since she's a spanish teacher i emailed her about the project me and my global group did on Carnival!  i also thought by showing her our presentation that this would help her with ideas for her project that she's assigned her class.  Hope it works out and helps! 

Carnival!

Soooo today our group did our presentation on Carnival in Brazil!
And i must say it was a very well put together, and organized presentation! (and im not just saying that cuz i was one of the editors! hehe) i liked it a lot! prolly one of my fav. presentations we've done! And now we're ganna start working on our final project, and I'm group leader this time... :/ i rele dont see myself as a leader matreial, but i will do my best!
I haven't rele heard from my mentee teacher in a while...i guess ill get in touch w/her again. I'll prolly tell her bout the presentation our group did since shes a spanish teacher! :]
Pc!

Huh!?

I checked my grade for my World 203 class and its ehhh...could be better.  i noticed i got a 65 on my Global group presentation 3! :[  i had a feeling i was off on that presentation...i accidentally posted about the wrong presentation! Instead of posting about "blood diamonds" i posted about something else, the presentation b4! and i realized i had messed up after the fact that i posted it! 

-_- ughh! well for presentation 4 and 5 i should b back on track! i hope i do better! I really can't afford anything lower than a B! but im hoping for an A! 

Mentee update!

So i said i would give the rest of the 411 on my work w/my teacher mentee, so here's what we have talked about so far....
I did email her with an intro. of who i am and what we have been doing in class relationg to technology and how i'll b to help her with current technology. She did reply saying Hi, and that she'll get back to me about what she wants to work on. then about a week or so later she replies again saying that she has an idea of what she would like to do, and here's her idea:
i had some ideas. I want my IB students to use more of the internet for explore the Spanish language. I have a lesson plan idea that involves the students creating their own hispanic country, along with creating a currency, a government, a nationality, and making a product that only their country sells to make revenues (if that makes sense). I thought that it would be cool if they could create their own wiki page just like the pages you see on the internet that describes all of the above about a REAL country.

is this possible for the students to make their own wiki page even if it is full of fake facts?

if this is unclear in anyway, please let me know and i'll clarify.

thanks,
rachel

i replied saying :
Sounds like an interesting project!
I am not too familiar with using and creating a wiki page, but we have learned a little bit about using them in class. Your students can create a page using this site: http://www.wikispaces.com/
I think you can create this page for their projects under one of the private labels...not sure, but can try it out! But the students can definitely use the wiki page to create their final project with all the information they've come up with, as well as add pictures if they like.
Even though the facts on the page are all fake, I'm not sure if the pages will get posted on google or anywhere publicly on the internet, but you can have them note on the page somewhere that the facts are made up and only created for this project so it's not falsely used by other strangers. And perhaps when the project is over, the students can delete the page if they want.
I hope what i said helps!

The last i heard from her was her reply of: this helps out A LOT! i want to make sure you get credit for helping me out so if you need me to e-mail you however many times a week, i will! just let me know what i need to do so you and your parent can get the credit you need.
-Rachel

i did reply telling her what i had to do and how frequent i should b in touch. But i haven't rele heard from her for over a week, so i emailed her again asking how her project was doing. Hopefully i hear back soon...well i guess thats all for now!

pc!