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...

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