End of the semester

just wanted to say thanks Jess for being such a great partner! I learned so much this semester that I will take into the classroom with me. I love how our website turned out!
Take care!

Meeting next weekend

Hi Jess...I think we talked about meeting up next Sunday but I wasn't thinking that I will have family coming from out of town Sunday morning and staying all night. Is there anyway we could meet Saturday? I was thinking if worse comes to worse maybe we could Skype or FaceTime...I can FaceTime in my iPad if you can on yours? So sorry just totally forgot about that date ;(

Final Concept Map

This is the final concept Kathy and myself have created for our team website.

Story Board

Kathy and I met up today and completed our story board. We feel very organized and ready to make our website!

Movie Maker Topic

Hi Jessica, just wanted to let you know that I am doing my movie project on the discovering Kalamazoo part of our project. Like the name origin, first settlers etc...I used our concept map to pick our topic. Just didn't want us to pick the same one.
Talk to ya soon!

Revised Concept Map

When looking at our concept map, we realized that we wanted to streamline more of our ideas. We found that while writing our lessons and projects we used multiple concepts at a time and wanted to show group the topics together. We also included our written lessons and group project on our concept map to show how they fit into our "big picture" project.

Lesson Plan 2 topic

Hi Jess, so I just wanted to let you know that I am going to do my lesson plan 2, finding statistics from the Kalamazoo promise in some sort of way. Hope you haven't picked that one...if so text me asap :) thanks!
Talk to ya soon!
Kathy

Hi girly!!

Hi Jess....hope you had a great spring break! Mine was great...didn't get much done in terms of homework that I wanted to get ahead on...but that's okay! So, I noticed that part two of our collaborative podcast is due this Sunday...can u meet up with me in Saturday? I'm available all day and will probably be on campus all day. Or I could meet with you after 1:00 in Friday as I don't work all day just have I service from 8-noon. So let me know what day works best for you! Did you see we got an A on our last podcast??!? We rock!!! I have a A in there for my midterm grade so far!!! So happyyyyyy!!!!! See ya soon!

Happy Spring Break

Kathy! I have been bragging about our podcast week! I also just wanted to take the time to wish you a happy spring break!

Collaborative Podcast

Hi Jess...Just wondering if you might be available to meet on Campus sometime on Friday? I don't have to work and I am going to take my son to school and be on campus working from 9-5 all day! It looks like this project may be a lot of work and I was thinking it would be good if we could get a jump start on it :) Also, I was looking at the Reading and reflection homework and we have TWO chapters due this week!! So....Let me know if you can meet on Friday? Text, or message me here...whatever is easiest for you!
Thanks so much!

Week 6

Kathy, we are almost half way through the semester! Good luck on your papers this week.

Lesson Plan

Hello,
I feel awkward writing this post just to you Kathy, but what technology are you thinking about using in your lesson this week?

I am still brain storming!

I just wanted to say how great everything looks. I will be on campus tomorrow all day as well. With my new work schedule mornings are going to work be for me on the weekends (I think). I will keep you all posted. I'm sorry about this weekend nervous from starting the new job and scared I was going to get fired, lol kidding. I'll have my phone on me all week if you can't find me any where else!! Enjoy your week, Kathy safe driving on the snowy roads with the kids, Jess, good luck in class!!

E-Pals/Mapping assignment

Lesson Description

Using map of Killarney, Ireland and Kalamazoo MI, our students will use the information gained from their conversations with their e-pals and compare where things are and how the city is set up/developed, to the ways observed in Kalamazoo.

Killarney


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Kalamazoo

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Change in layout

Hello Ladies, I hope your okay with me changing the layout of our blog....I wanted to customize it more but couldn't really figure it out. Hopefully we can make it a little more user friendly, and decorate it with a background of some sort that will reflect our topic. Maybe we can take a look at it when we get together. See ya soon!

Week Four

Hello ladies! We had discussed meeting this week to work on the project, so I was wondering if we could meet around 12 or at 4... let me know what works better or if 2 works best I may have to be late. Hope you are having a great week!

Website We Were Using

In fact here is the updated list I just did today, I noted the ones I used for my website evaluations :) 

 

Website Used

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalamazoo,_Michigan

How Kalamazoo Got Its Name - Kalamazoo Public Library (Kathy used for web site evaluation) http://www.kpl.gov/local-history/general/kalamazoo-name.aspx   

http://www.city-data.com/us-cities/The-Midwest/Kalamazoo-History.html  (Jessica used for website eval)

http://www.swmidirectory.org/History_of_Kalamazoo_County.html (Kathy used for website evaluations)

www.kalamazoomi.com (Kathy used for web site evaluation)

http://www.kalamazoomi.com/community/index.htm websites for neighborhoods

http://www.migenweb.org/kalamazoo/history.htm local history (Jessica used for website eval)

www.kalamazoocity.org

www.downtownkalamazoo.org

www.kazoochamber.com

http://www.ci.kalamazoo.mi.us/portal/government.php?page_id=69  (Jessica used for website eval)

Website Evaluations

Hi Ladies, I just looked on the E-Learning site and it looks like we have to do an evaluation of some websites. I guess it's a good thing we made a list and saved the ones we used! It appears we each have to pick 3 different web sites and evaluate them. I was wondering if you mind if I do the KPL site we found, (and two others of course?) also, Jessica do you think you could attach that document or somehow put those sites on here? I'm not sure how to do that ;( I'm thinking we will have to research a few more too!!! Talk to ya soon!!!!

Concept Map

Our blogs first post

Hello everyone welcome to our local history blog for EDT-3470...from what I see we get our points by posting in the blog each week so....this is my first post! Looking forward to starting our concept map tomorrow!!