Friday, February 6, 2009

So much to do and so little time. I don't know about the rest of you but the work this week has taken up a lot of time. Now this is not a complaint as such, really it is the lead into how useful the tools and technologies we are learning really are. Working to meet the Monday deadline means that I will have to complete some of my school work this weekend. Well I will be out of town this week end. In the past that may have really stressed my time management skills. I would have had many a long evening this week and probably stayed up into the wee hours on Sunday and Monday as well. I had even planned on not watching Psych and Monk with my family tonight which is the only shows all four of all like to watch. It really wasn't until this afternoon that I realized that while I was in Rhinelander, Lac Du Flambeau, and Wausau this weekend for our open house programs instead of using all the down time that I usually spend being bored or trying to find a good place for chicken wings, I could be accessing and completing all my MEIT work.


That's right I can simply pack up my laptop, with my delicious online bookmarks, my in the Box online storage, my Empressr online presentation tool, and my digital scanned textbook and off I go. Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning I can now spend being productive just as if I were sitting at my desk at home. Not only that but I can probably even use the computer to find a place with wings.


I found the online presentation applications to be fairly sophisticated after looking at the graphic applications we previewed this week. I currently use Power Points on an almost daily basis and so the use of these online presentations was easily understood. I was impressed as I mentioned at how sophisticated many of the sites were. Currently I have unlimited use of Elluminate which is an online synchronous white board web application. There must be a term for what it is that I am unaware of, maybe someone can fill me in on that in the comments area. With Elluminate I can upload a Power point and use it for my presentations. I really have not thought of how I can utilize the online presentation capabilities but I look forward to reading the ideas generated in all of your Blogs.

3 comments:

  1. Well I have to commend you on your plan of time management... I'm in the same boat. I sit right now, a Friday evening, at my mother's house with family members I haven't seen since early summer. And when there is a lapse in the conversation, I type. (I can see the whole weekend going this way.)So... did you ever find a place for wings?

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  2. I found your post to be very interesting because I too have stopped to think how interesting my graduate school experience has been. I never thought that when I would pack up to go to a coffee shop to do work that all I would need is my MacBook. I hope the rest of your week goes well.

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  3. The power of this class is mobility - and collaboration with the mobility

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