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!

technology isnt always great!

I'm trying to complete my Psychology lab online, and randomly my browser closes on me.. -_- thank god i had saved my work otherwise i would have had to start all over again! and now when i try to go back on the vcu site, it wont open!! idk y! idk if its my internet connection or the server Safari i'm using...this sucks! So now idk when ill b able to complete my hw! hopefully soon! but at least its not due till tues. 

On another note, for my World 203 class were suppose to b working with partners with our teacher mentees to teach them some of the technology! But, my parnter has been MIA, never heard from her or nething, so i'm flying solo on this.  But i actually dont rele mind cuz i've already helped out my teacher with the project that she's assigning her class! it's pretty interesting!..neways im going to try to fix this internet problem, otherwise i may need to hit the library to finish! ill blog more about my teacher mentee later!! 

pc!

work work work!

This week has been a rele busy week for me! 3 tests and a project! So i've been studying a lot lately! soo much work! but i'm glad its finally all over! I can finally relax!

home sick

im back on campus and fall break is over. it felt too short! i wana go back home! i miss it :/ and i rele dun feel like starting my work again! ughh 

randomness

Today my group got together and we discussed about our next presentation. and we recorded our 20min. podcast! I think im starting to get the hang of things, but still a little shaky about some.  I hope i'm keeping up with all the work and such...but i'm pretty sure i am!