Gayla and all--

Wow!! Gayla, you did a wonderful job. Thanks you all your hard work.
It is so neat to see the finished product.
I hope that you all will be attending the summer institute. I'm really
looking forward to meeting everyone.
Toni G.

All slides are in!

All slides are in show and copy sent to all group memebers through VCSU. Kudos to you all! I will be hitting send Friday morning at 8am unless there has been notification of changes to be made before then. contact me on my phone or work or sendit before then and just give me a slide number/description and change to be made. As long as I get the all ok from you all. Music is now off and Maria and Darlene are sending me some more references. Really maria after looking at yours I think it is ok because you listed them all on your slides. Thanks Darlene for the introductory slides!

Maria, I do not have yours yet, I am having trouble getting into outlook web with my credential manager... Will try to figure it out- maybe you posted it there. Please send to my sendit if you can. gayla.schill@sendit.nodak.edu I am sure you sent it there I just can't get back into it tonight! I probably just have to restart my computer or something.

I would like to have a volunteer to edit and check over the slides/make any changes before final send off! I can pump Maria's in at the end. First to volunteer gets it and can send it back to me, I will save the sent back one as a final copy put Maria's slides in and send it off... I have sent another copy to all group members with the last two submissions I recieved. Another option would be to send in alphabetical order to everyone making Jim the one responsible to sending me the final copy? I am maybe making this more complicated, I just want eveyone to have the chance to make any changes, we are all getting a grade for this and should all take an active role in the final product! Please feel free to make changes that you think makes the slide show easier to read or find missing periods.

Darlene, I added those slides of yours, can you please put any needed sources from those on your reference slide. Thanks for those slides!

garphics/music/etc

personally, I have always been an advocate of the adage "Keep it simple". I think lots of great presentations have been goofed up because somebody thought 20 different transitions, animated clip art, and music would "spice things up a bit" and they wound up making the presentation a mess.
Truthfully Gayla, you have done such a good job up to now I will trust you on whatever you do, but my opinion is to keep it simple, clear, and professional

Just my opinion

Does anyone what graphics/transitions/music?

What are your feelings?
Keep it simple?
Just some animations/graphics on slides that have room?
Do you know of any music clips that go with a "library" theme? If so send it to me.
Transitions and Exit/Entrace motions, I think will slow it down and make things harder for the instructors to grade- that is the only feeling I have.

Toni

I have not checked my VCSU Mail in awhile. I am trying to keep all project stuff in my sendit box so I don't accidently delete something while reading list-serv stuff! please send your slides to gayla.schill@sendit.nodak.edu I can go into VCSU to get yours-don't worry if that's how you sent them. However, if you did send them via sendit I didn't get them in there...

Gayla,
It really looks good. Can you please get in touch with me and let me know if you got my slides.
I emailed them on Thursday. I sent them to myself so I was confident they went through.
Toni G.

a round of applause for Gayla, please...

I just looked at what you have done up to now and it looks GREAT!! Very good job!
I like the names and the bottom of each slide and the way the credits scroll at the end. The template you're using is eyecatching yet very clear.
I think we all owe Gayla a word of thanks. What a great job!

Project so far in your VCSU mail-

I have 3 people done including myself... I have two slides I need to spiff up yet of my own that are in the right place in the show. I have come up with a plan to make changes for now below and in the email unless someone has another idea?

So far this is what I have

Still a work in progress- If you are going to send me changes- either highlight it in red and an explain what should be done in red somewhere for now- and send the individual slide to me one at a time so I don't duplicate something. If it is your own slide you want to change you may change it and send them one or two at a time. It is now over 150 kb and can't post it to either scholastic or to blog. I am hoping there will not be a problem sending in the drop box- I don't think there will be. I have 2 others besides myself that have turned them in.

I should be here most of Sunday until 5 and again after 8 or 9 pm to help out in anyway I can.

I have a great start on this and on Sunday/eves. at the beginning part of this week I will put this together the rest. I have kindergarten celebration (graduation) ceremony this week as well as heading up track and field day/starting Title I testing... this week is looking very crazy- don't worry though- I am used to crazy!

I think names on slides is a great idea. If you have already sent you slides- don't re-send. I will just add it. I think we should site sources on the slide and then each have a reference slide (alphabetically listed) at the end with the credits- This way we are covered on both ends... What do you guys think? Blank slides are fine don't stress! As soon as I receive all of the slides and get as many bugs out as I can I will try to get it available for viewing for all. Best way to do this is probably through e-mail unless anyone else knows a better way to make necessary or suggested changes?

My slide format

This is what I did with each of my slides. Look alright?

Names on slides

I also made a little text box in the lower right hand corner with my name in it. Is this something we should do in order that anyone looking at our presentation knows who made that particular slide right away, rather than having to check a slide at the end?

Citing sources

Proper way to cite an email source according to the OWL at Purdue website:

No personal communication is included in your reference list; instead, parenthetically cite the communicators name, the fact that it was personal communication, and the date of the communication in your main text only.

(E. Robbins, personal communication, January 4, 2001).

A. P. Smith also claimed that many of her students had difficulties with APA style (personal communication, November 3, 2002).

Now, if I do that each and every time, my info wouldn't fit on my slide. What I did was after each answer, I put the name in parentheses. Would it work to do that and then just cite the sources on reference page? Or should we do it the proper way the first time we introduce our interviewee, and then just put their name in parentheses every time after that???

Gads, I hate citing sources...why can't they keep it simple??? 8-)

It's not a problem....

....in fact, it may be easiest to send it with no background/format because Gayla can apply the background to every single slide in the presentation once it's all together. It's actually pretty easy if you know what to do.

Send it to her with blank white backgrounds. She will be able to do the rest.

Maria~

Don't panic. Just send it to Gayla and she can do the background. The "Prefab" theme is downloadable from the Microsoft Website. If you can find it, great, if not, no worries. ;-)

Stacey

URGENT--NEED ANSWER

can't fine "prefab" template anywhere...don't want to spend more time on it...can I do mine without a design layout and submit it that way or can someone direct me towards the template guide....I am starting to freak out.

please e-mail me at sendit--maria.nenow@sendit.nodak.edu

Gayla-looks good!

I agree with your suggestions, as well as those of Jim's. What you have outlined looks good. I have Microsoft Office 2007 and had to download the Prefab design so went ahead and did that. Good deal!

I think I like it better with the role and question to the left and then the question below like so...

make slides full screen on this blog by clicking them

Seems to look nice & goes with suggested fonts

Design-prefab
color-metro

Top of slide
Ariel Black (Heading) 20 (white on green)
Instructor Role 1: left alligned bold (white on green)
Question: left allinged bold (white on green)

Slide Content
Black on White
Ariel Body 28 Bold

Design

Ok, After playing around with my own slides, the design of the slide affects the fonts etc.. Lets pick a design and keep conformity with that. I think that will be the best option. I had a few of my slides done blank put them into a design and it changed it all to the design theme anyway. I have found a theme that works with James font suggestions called "prefab" I might have had to download it from Microsoft office but it was in with my designs anyhow. It has a clean look with nice color themes to choose from. The default on the title is 36 but you will have to make your text fit so 20 seems small but worked well when viewing as full screen. Ariel font is already the default setting and the answers would be defaulted at 28. If you do this in a blank slide it should fit into this template. If you want to go ahead and use this design while constructing your slides it might help you with your project "vision." I chose "metro" for the color theme for now if you have any other color favorites with this theme let me know. Here is an example title (Intro) and question slide.

I am glad you guys are giving input on all of this because I was not sure what you were all going to send me! I like Jame's ideas about siting sources on the slide. I really do think it would work well to have a credits page for each person in which we would list our references. I just have a feeling we will have quite a few references and I don't want to copy and paste too much. I will admit re-learning how to site material is one of the things I had to overcome this semester and I am still not that confident.

I believe once I have all of the slides in place I can "select all" for backgrounds and stuff. Fonts are harder to modify and provide unity. What font style & sizes to use for heading and questions should be agreed upon before sending. I used 32 for question and 28 for answers. The thing is that the font adjust on its own depending on the amount of information on each slide, so no matter what we do this might differ a little bit. My suggestion is to keep James Arial font and go a little larger on the question and smaller on the answer. Any ideas bold throughout for easier reading or just for the questions? I like bold throughout and any references or additional information (such as that in parenthesis) could be in regular font. Thanks for taking on the intros great idea! Keep the ideas coming! Does anyone have a favorite slide design/colors that they think is easy to read and "catches the eye." I am so very open to suggestions!

references

yes, I saw the konnie's e-mail. Looks like we can all use the librarian or person who answered our questions, so we have at least 6. How about we just send them in on a powerpoint slide and the builder can create a reference page and a credits page(listing the questions we handled)

Hello!

Konnie emailed each of us regarding a question I posed to her regarding references.

"For the highest number of points on this block of the rubric (2), the team (together) would have to turn in 4 (or more if they want to) references to substantiate their work. The references would include any of the following: communications with other librarians (talking directly, by phone, by e-mail, etc.), references from books and/or journals, references from established web sites, references from publications, other (which if you're not sure, just sent me an e-mail)."

As far as font style/size, what Jim mentioned sounds good to me.

font size and style

I started my slides and a though occurred to me.

This is going to be a pain in the rear for whoever puts it together if the font style and style we all use is different. The slide show, after all, should be consistant. So I thought we should establish some sort of norm we all go by.

I am currently using ariel font for my slides. I am using bold print for all of it so it is more visible and I am using 20 count fount for the questions and 28 count for the answers. I am putting them on blank slide so the "builder" can put whatever they want as a background.

It doesn't matter to me what font style or size we use - it doesn't have to be what I have described - but I think we should standardize it to make it look better and to make it easier on the builder

Okay...

I have emailed Konnie and asked if she meant references as in who we interview or as in doing research and citing sources. I'll post when I hear back from her.

Makes sense though what Jim said. With the various people we have interviewed we will have lots of references/sources.

references/intros/showing our work

references - As far as references, perhaps I'm thinking of it the wrong way, but couldn't we all just add a simple citation to the bottom of each slide or send one extra slide with out references? We could all just cite the person(s) we asked to answer our questions. I imagine most of us will have just one and if there are 6 of us, we easily get at least 4, correct? The person who's putting it together could just cut and past the reference and put them all on one reference page. Wouldn't that work?

Intros - I'm afraid I haven't read the assignment in a bit so I'm a bit lost on the intro issue. Whatever it is, I'd be happy to write one or write any other slide/additional text thats needed. I don't mind doing that if I know what it is and what it's for.

showing our work - I'd think we could do one of 2 things. Either "initial" each page we do, or create a "credits" page that lists each person and the pages they are responsible for. That would be pretty easy and quite clear.

Fine by me!

That would work for me! If everyone else is good by it, then I am too. Thanks for your thoughts!

Stacey

As far as I'm concerned, Stacey and Gayla have already done and will do more than their share. Stacey set up the blog and got us all together. Gayla is going to do the powerpoint. I think this is just great. I would be willing to point that out in the rubric where we evaluate each other. If the other 4 of us each took one role and wrote a cited intro., I think that would be fine.

Toni

Hello all!

Hey Darlene, were you able to get in? I sent you a new invite.

In regards to the need for 4 references...I like the idea of introducing each role. However, with there being six of us, will it be taken as two of us didn't do as much when 4 wrote the intros? How can we do this so it looks like we all committed to the project?

Maybe since the Teacher Role and the Admin Role are so large, we could have two people work on an intro for each? They could collaborate on it?

Also, do we want to schedule a time to meet in the Blackboard Chat Room so we can talk about this project in real time just to touch base with each other and how we are doing/what we are doing?

According the the rubric, we need to cite at least 4 sources in our project.
Since there are 4 roles, maybe we could introduce each role with an explanation and reflection with citations.
I would be willing to write one of them.
What do you all think?
Toni G.

Question

Please help me out. I'm not sure why we are concerned about linking documents and/or hyperlinks. I thought we were just posting our interview questions and responses. Are you talking about suggestions that the person that you interviewed might have made?

I just want to make sure that I do my part correctly.

Thanks.
Toni G.

Sample slide with linked documents

Feedback on Linking Documents

James sent me an email explaining how to link documents within a PowerPoint- I suggest we do this only if needed. I am still not sure even if this process is used if when compiling the PowerPoint it would interfere with the integrity of the documents, if the links would still be active, and how the folders would be arranged when sending the final project to the instructors.

If you have a website that has the document needed linked to it. you may be able to hyperlink it. I was able to send a PowerPoint with a web link though my e-mail. I was also able to insert documents through the "insert " tabs by clicking on "objects" and selecting the file or creating a new file, it shows up on the slide and can be re sized and clicked on to view the full document. It is not a hyperlink it is an actual document inserted within the slide. Maybe James knows how to hide it and click on it to open? This is probably the best way to do this if you need to.

I am also concerned about the file becoming too large for an e-mail. So simplicity is probably key. Please test your PowerPoint before sending it to me by sending it to yourself in an email and make sure all of your links are working properly. I probably won't have the time to relink and sort our documents and folders. I will be cleaning our my e-mail box by next weekend so that I don't go over my quota with your final projects being sent.

Email from James:
If a document is linked as part of a powerpoint and is separate from the powerpoint itself (as opposed to being a slide itself) it will not be there when you e-mail the powerpoint. The reason why is the link you create is to a specific document in your computer. If you move the link, it will still look for that specific place in your computer and since the powerpoint is in a different computer, it will not be able to find it, because it's still back in your computer. My advice if you're going to do it that way would be first, to put the powerpoint and the document in a folder together, THEN create the link. Then send the whole folder. All in that order. Then the document will be there and the link will be correct.I'm the tech coordinator at my school so I do know some things. Feel free to ask whatever you want. If I can answer it I sure will

The layout of your slides

The layout is your choice, you can choose to have your slides post the question on top and choose the layout that best suites the question. I will try to choose a design that is fitting to the project. I think having the question # and typed question listed at the top is best for organizing the show. The answer should be bulleted or explained in hopefully one slide each. If there is need to use more than one slide for a question type Question #3 continued... at the top so that I don't mix them up. I still have not figured our if you link documents to your slides if it will automatically add them to the show, I am going to try to send myself a slide linked to a document, delete the document from my computer, and see if it still links. I will keep you updated on this aspect. If you want graphics on your slide please choose them and add them to your slides. I would suggest if you use graphics limit them to one per slide or add them if they are needed to explain a question- such as a chart or graph.

Sample Slide

Powerpoints

I personally like the neatness of bulleted information on powerpoints. I was going to do the question at the top and then give the answer in a bulleted format. Typing it in a paragraph on the slide (in my opinion) looks cluttered to me.

What say everyone else?

As far as what to do with your information when done researching, put it into PowerPoint format and then send it to Gayla. She will add the background so that all are uniform.

oh, also...

should we create powerpoint slides and send them pre-made, or would you prefer a word document?

a really dumb question

but I have asked them a million times before so why not?

The questions I have are fine, doing it as a powerpoint is fine, but I guess I am wondering how everyone else is going to set up the content of their slided. I am guessing there will be one question/answer per slide but what then? Should we list the question and then include the answer verbatum or summerize with bullet points? What ever we do, I just thought the project overall would be better if we all did the same thing. Continuity throughout the presentation would be good.

later

Good morning!

Powerpoint works for me. Also, having each of us make a slide for our sources sounds like a good idea, as does having each of us see the finished copy before it is turned in.

Have a good day all!
Stacey

OK

Hi all-

I am ok with power point and all of the suggestions I am spending the day in Grand Forks with my Mentor today so hopefully I have lots of information to get started with!!

April 26th is the deadline we have agreed upon is that correct?

Maria

Is all OK?

Is everyone OK with how this is going now that we are all here? I want to make sure PowerPoint is what we are to do our questions with? It was suggested early on. Does everyone here know how to use it and feel comfortable using it for this project?

Anyone have any suggestions or insights regarding my earlier post? If this is in fact how we are doing the project? Also, if I am to compile this I would feel more comforatable sending a finished copy to all before sending to instructors. I think it would be helpful to have all of us proofing and making needed improvements during the last week.... Also a question regarding references, how should these be compiled? I thought maybe to compile references under "names" so that we wouldn't have to alphabetize each individually. Then alphabetize the reference slides by names alphabetically. I am just trying to simplify things... Feedback?

Example: Each Reference Slide

References: Gayla Schill

www.GroupBLMISBLOGSPOT.com Last retrieved April 2008

Hi Jim!

Glad to see you made it in. I wonder how you were able to post before without a Google account? I thought you had to have one in order to post at all? Hmmm. Technology...

I am just now getting a chance to stop in, and I was going to email you the questions. Guess I don't need to worry about that now. Good deal.

I can't believe April is here already. Man time flies!

Well, have fun all!

now that I'm here....

....I believe I am the only one left to get/pick questions so I will take the ones listed in a previous post as being available. They are:

Teacher Role: 3, 4
Instructor Role: None
Information: 2
Administrator Role: 20, 22, 24, 25, 28, 30

I'll get them to the powerpoint guru as soon as I can

OK, that's interesting....

Hi guys, I'm back. When I let you know about my problem logging into the blog, someone asked if I had created a google account. Nothing else was working, so I did, and now I can get on with no problem. Go figure.
It appears I will be able to communicate now.

PowerPoint is a Go?

I will compile the PowerPoint. I agree we should arrange them into roles rather than by person.

Before starting, I have a question... Should we use a simplified version of the question as a heading and then bullet the main points and ideas? Some questions look like they might need more explaining than a bullet. Could we use the "notes:" feature to do this?

I also am wondering if we plan to link documents into the PowerPoint? If you send the PowerPoint to me with the documents linked... will they open from my computer? I may have to download and relink docs individually? If someone has something started with a link to a doc. send me a slide with a document linked so I can see if it works. If this is the case only link docs if you have to. If not link away! gayla.schill@sendit.nodak.edu.

When sending please do not send until you are finished with all of your questions. Please label the slide or put in the notes which role the question should be placed with and the question number to make it easier to compile. It looks like the assignment is due May, 4th. I would like to have them by April 26th? I have a conference on the 26th and my kindergarten graduation is on May, 2nd. Is this doable for all of us? I would like that Sunday and the next weekend to work on it. Also do we want to use pictures, animations, and graphics or keep it clean and simple?


I will take the following questions:
Teacher Role: 10, 12
Instructor Role: 4, 7
Informational Role: 6
Administrative Role: 23, 26, 27, 29

Available questions from what I can tell are:
Teacher Role: 3, 4
Instructor Role: None
Information: 2
Administrator Role: 20, 22, 24, 25, 28, 30

Someone please double check that to see if I am right. It does say in the assignment that not all questions need to be answered for the Administrative Role...

Questions choices

Teacher Role: 5 and 6
Instructional Partner Role: 3
Information Specialist Role: 5
Administrator Role: 16,18,19, 21

Wow

Ok so I haven't been keeping up with this at all...I sent questions out but see now that those are not going to work...

I will look over the list and choose new questions...and have we decided on power point? What is the deadline to have my information put together and turned in to someone...I work best with deadlines..and I know that everyone was hoping to have this done as soon as we can...

Maria

LMIS 688 questions

Hey,...sorry for being gone for a while. It's end of quarter and we just received Activboards, which is great but in addition to being the librarian, I'm also the Powerschool administrator and the tech coordinator, so I have been going about 16-18 hours a day.

I haven't so much as looked at the questions. Just tell which ones you want me to have and I'll go with it.

Power point is fine with me

LMIS 688 Project questions

I have pulled the following questions:

Teacher Role 7,11
Instructional Role 2
Information Specialist Role 4
Administrative role 11,12,13,14,15

Darlene

LMIS 688 Team Project

I'll take the following questions:
Teacher Role - 8 & 9
Instructional Partner Role - 5 & 6
Informational Specialist Role - 3
Administrative Role - 6, 7, 8, 9, & 10

Toni Gredesky

Project Questions

Well, I am going to be hanging around with a librarian tomorrow and I would like to pick her brain, so I am going to go ahead and assign myself some questions.
Teacher Role-1,2
Instructional Partner Role-1
Information Specialist Role-1
Administrator Role-1,2,3,4,5

If any of you would like to choose some questions and post them here, go for it. Otherwise, at the end of the weekend, I will go ahead and assign questions.

As far as format goes, PowerPoint is fine with me. I vote we arrange the PowerPoint by roles, rather than by person. Makes more sense that way. As far as the background/slide design of the slide show, that can be added by the person who consolidates the slide show. Gayla, if you want to do it, you could put the slide show together when we are all said and done. Let me know if you want/need any help.

As far as the layout of individual slides, use the layout that makes the most sense for each question and its information.

Font-Times New Roman in a size that makes sense for the amount of information. Probably around 18-20; not too big, not too small...if anything needs changing it can be done at the final work-up.

Each of us should put our information into a PowerPoint and then email it to Gayla if she decides she wants the job of putting it together.

Anyone have any changes or thoughts to add?

On the other hand, if we did do PowerPoint, more options would be available. Each could have their own section of questions. I might be willing to merge them together for us but we would have to agree on format (by Category or Individual). I don't care for Powerpoints that jump around in the layout or design so that is another thing we could collaborate on. This might be our best bet- Thinking that we all have some Powerpoint experience? Can we do a poll on the different ideas? Making sure that all are comfortable with the interface we use?

We can sign up through email for now?

I think it would be sufficient to sign up for questions through emailing a sign up table- 1st response gets first choice- or alphabetical order? I think this would take the burden off of you and individuals are responsible for thier own choices. I don't want to contribute to the "lack of knowledge" on a question because of my inexperience in the library setting. However, I know we can all ask each other when in doubt, so I am not too worried.

LOL, in playing around...

There is a polling option on here. So, I have posted a poll at the bottom of the page.

Another thought...

If we wanted to do a website I could pick our tech coordinator's brain. He designs websites on the side. Maybe he would have some ideas for us.

Talked with him. He suggested doing it in a blog because the hosting is there and it is free. Thoughts?

Hey Gayla!

Glad to see you! I see what you mean about signing up for questions and having a list available. Let me talk to our tech coordinator. Maybe we could link something to the blog and use our school server to support it.

Update-Talked with him about this and no can do. He gave me some technical jargon that we would all have to be able to do...over my head. So, if we decide to choose questions we will just have to choose and list here.

assigning questions

Stacey,
I feel completely comfortable with you doling out the questions. I'll take the extra one.
Toni G.

Doling Out Questions!

Good ideas on diving these questions. I think it would serve our project best to each pick our questions a few in each subdivision based on comfort level, experience, and available resources. Assigning random questions might be easier but it might hinder the overall effectiveness and productivity.

Is there a way for us to have a working table in this blog to sign up for questions? I created a small table. If it was saved in a different format such as pdf. can we all add to it? I think it would aviod confusion we could do this in other formats such as 3-5 questions at a time or per week. Think about it. Just a suggestion on the topic.
file://Project LMIS 688 (this link might not work, 1st try)

I am here!

Better late than never huh! I just can't seem to get to my classes on time... Ha! Ha! Ok, I am here and ready to contribute. I didn't realize we were in full force after just receiving the email about how we were going to communicate. I am happy to see the word PowerPoint! I can do that. I am familiar with websites as long as they are user friendly. I use scholastics free hosting service now. Our school is just starting an Edutech site; it is very confusing and difficult for me. So if we do website-this is a big concern for me. I have to read further to see what has been talked about before I input more ideas. This blog is fine with me for communication purposes. Website would be a great product- I think it would be more enticing than a PowerPoint for viewing of instructors and peers.

Thoughts on doling out questions

Well, there are 55 questions in 4 categories: 12 Teacher's Role, 7 Instructional Partner Role, 6 Information Specialist Role, and 30 Administrator Role. It works out to 9 questions each, with 1 question left over (anyone could pick that one up).

Do you want me to just figure out how many from each role we do and assign questions to each of us from each role? We would each have 2 from the Teacher's Role, 1 each from Instructional Partner and Information Specialist, and 5 from the Administrator Role.

Thoughts?

Format response

I like the idea of a powerpoint and I think the project lends itself to the format. I can do some more checking on posting the ppt then to a website.

Does everyone feel comfortable with all of the questions in a section as they are listed? Do you feel you have the contacts for all of the questions in that section?

Darlene

Good evening!

Well, my thought is that we should decide on a format before we get started. I absolutely hate Wikis, can't make any sense of the darn things, so I would like to stay away from that. PowerPoint I love, and this blog thing seems interesting and rather easy as well. Another thought, does anyone have experience with websites? I don't have much, but if someone else feels comfortable with that, a website could work as well.

As far as dividing up the questions, what are your thoughts? Do we just want to group them into six groups and each take a group? We would then post here when we had our questions researched. Deadlines...would having the research done by the end of March be reasonable? That would then give us a month to get it organized into a presentation.

Team project

Hi... sorry for the delay. My question also is how we will divide up the questions.

It is my understanding we will post each reply to this site for everyone to view?
Will we decide on our format at this point or wait until we have posted our replies? What do you want to set as the deadline for completion of our interviews and posting of responses?

Darlene

Questions

Stacey,

Do you want to assign us the questions for the assignment? Or does anyone have any suggestions for dividing them up.

Toni

Hi Jim!

We are still waiting on Darlene and Gayla. They haven't emailed me with any problems so I am wondering if they just haven't had time to try yet.

I made it

this would work - has everyone accepted?

Hi Maria!

Maria has a comment under my first post, so two others from the group have found their way in.

Maria, you see how to create a post, right? Look in the top right corner for the "New Post" button. ;-)

Good deal!

Glad you were able to find your way in. Was it pretty easy for you?

Good Idea

Stacey,
What a great idea! I think this will work just great for us.

How to Begin...

First, I will have to send an email to each of you inviting you to contribute to the blog. Click the link in the email. Before it lets you enter you will have to sign up for a Google account. All that really entails is entering your email address and creating a password. Once you have completed that you can post on the blog!

Posting is easy. In the top right-hand corner there is a a "New Post" link. Click that, type in a title and your post, hit "publish post" and voila! You have posted in the blog!