March 30th-April 5th

March 30-April 5th

23 hours

Formatting Powerpoint Google Slides	1 hour
Treatment Report Thumbnails	2.5  hours
Treatment report Splash Page	1.5 hours
Team Meeting	1 hr. 30 min
Lesson PLan Symbolism	*Need to create student example (2 hours)
Lesson PLan Water Cycle	Updating 1 hr
Lesson Plan Nation Divided	Updating 1.5 hours
Lesson PLan (13 Colonies) Writing	2 hours
Reformat EdTech Tool Kit Action Buttons	6 hours
Printer Icon/re format only shows on specific pages	1 hour
Emails/Google+/To Do List	2 hours
Resources/Began adding resources videos/editing	3 hours

This week the second part of the treatment report was due.  On this part of the treatment report, I included the splash page, various color formats, and tab locations. I decided to sketch these out because I did not want to make any unnecessary changes to the homepage which was designed months ago based on Dr. Mims color choices.  I also added screenshots of all the modules to the the thumbnail pages.  These updates and documents were added to the existing treatment report which I created last week with the screencast. I happened to get ahead of myself and reported on everything last week.

All assignments were completed on time and turned in prior to due dates. (Treatment Report)

I am also working on numerous lesson plans to add to the MTVT website. Drafting lessons is a tedious process as well as updating existing lesson plans to follow the MTVT lesson plan template. I am meeting with two teachers to do a test run of the site this week to provide feedback.

To update the EdTech Tool Kit, I also added more resources to the EdTech Tool Kits with description, video tutorials and links for pInboards and times lines.  I also had to change all the buttons to action buttons and include “access” to each of the sites so that the learner knew where to click. We also had the printer button added on each page.  I had to use short code to only place the printer button on lesson plan pages and tutorials.  This process took sometime to figure out, but once I figured out the coding it was a quick fix. I am learning about so many free Web 2.0 tools that I often find myself trying several out and being led off task.  Usually because I want to see how I could implement them in my own class.  I realize I can do this once the class is over and I have the time to play around with these tools.

The Resource Module is also being updated with images and site design formating.  I have just begun this process but will continue to work on this particular element throughout the week.  

Our team met on Wednesday and we once again delegated tasks, talked about ideas, and decided how to tweak certain elements on our site.  Kim completed all the tutorials and they are great. We decided to break the tutorial up into individual topics because learners may not want to sit through an 8 min tutorial when some questions could be answered in two minutes.  I think this was a great change and will be extremely beneficial in the tutorials and helping the learner create their own MTVT lesson plan.

Rick is still waiting for Feedback from Dr.Mims on the site we hope to hear from him soon since a majority of the site is almost complete.  We once again utilized a to-do list and I have been in constant communication with Kim throughout the week.  This upcoming week I hope to finish my lessons and will be updating the resource module.  I will also  be completing the group members evaluations and self evaluations on Google Forms. We will meet as a team to discuss our next plan of action on Monday.