culminating expereince

Culminating expereince

This is a for the sills and technologies that we have experienced in this class. Also a shout out to the curriculum hey Louis. Let me take you back to last week. My culminating experience activity had been going very well. I had completed the following.

culminating proposal draft ok’d
full day of Html training from the head programmer for the company who provides our curriculum
individual research on html, some great online resources are available.
one on one work with the head of my department

downloaded application needed for curriculum editing

I was able to make changes to files that I downloaded and then submit those changes and have them appear in my classes big big deal for iQ teachers

I talked to Louis and talked about plan and how I was going to represent this in the portfolio

Got up Early Wed July 28th got the coffee ready papers out opened some apps and
BooooooooM!!!!!

Yep computer crash............ ok no panic, reboot check messages, scratch head
what does Stop code 0000ffffffx000000x fffffffff000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 mean any way.

no worries reboot again Stop code 0000ffffffx000000x fffffffff000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGG that right revert right to Pirate speak. Shiver my timbers Ahhhh poop deck.
The bad news
My hard drive crashed ...............
I lost all my most recent Caribbean vacation pictures (not all? see good news below)
I lost weeks of work (only weeks see below under good news)
I had to complete my culminating experience on my lap top.

The good news
Actaully this is part bad and lots good news We have a back up that for some reason stopped backing up in early June. so good news saved most everything yeah! bad news lost a month and a half of work.

* Most of my grad work materials can be found in cloud storage, wohoo!
* I did not have to go Mad
* My wife though of attaching key board and mouse and monitor to my lap top increasing efficiency, once again I stayed relatively sane.


So owe a great deal to Louis and the MEIT curriculum for teaching me the skills to effectively deal with this potential disaster. Though to be completely fair they are the ones who are making me do all this work in the first place and without them I would probably be tending the garden or playing NCAA 11 right now.
So thanks a lot Louis!!!

Really I owe you most of my sanity!

Week 6 leadership

Here are some belated and quick thoughts about leadership. I am thankful this class was included in our curriculum. The topic was just a semester late but has helped salvage some of you departments transition to a grading and curriculum change that is taking place in the Waukesha school district. I really could have used it about 6 months ago when the change to criteria based grading was proposed to the iQ staff. I asked a bunch of questions and tried to get clarification you know the why, what when kinda stuff and then asked the why some more. I was not satisfied with the answers I received and made some people uncomfortable with my questions. During our class I came to realize just why we were all uncomfortable.

One the district had been working on the transitions for several years (just not iQ) the folks my questions upset the most were the ones new to iq or had worked mostly face to face and had been in the loop as it were. When I realized what was happening I asked for the supportive literature from the powers that be and read through them. They really were quite barren of facts or supportive information for the change but did at least give some vision for the change with some very basic guidance. Secondly I have no control at this point in the process so I can show some trust and move forward with the change.

The new skills I have learned in the culminating experience activity CED0599 give me unique skills to help facilitate the changes taking place with the iQ curriculum. I look forward to developing my role as a leader at iQ and in online education.