Gaming in Teacher Ed
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I thought the SimSchool and VirtualU projects sounded fantastic for teaching new teachers. First of all, I never trained to be a college instructor! I was a product of an A.A.S. degree at the community college, and I went to work immediately – actually while still attending school full time! I saw that advancement in my company would necessitate me obtaining a Bachelor’s Degree, so I went back to get that. As I was finishing my last course, I sent in my resume for an adjunct teaching position, and ended up being interviewed and hired as a Department Coordinator and full time instructor. Although I had trained many users in my industry-related position, I never had any formal training in pedagogy or designing and delivering effective instruction. My orientation to the college left me in tears — literally!
How grand it would have been to have a mentor or a virtual mentor that would have helped ease the transition from industry to education! I would have welcomed the opportunity to have a role-based simulation to help me in the process. All I had was a textbook and old syllabi!
As I read the assigned reading, I thought about creating an interactive teacher orientation and best practices for new teachers simulation in SL. I think that would be a fun way to introduce new instructors to the college and to the process of teaching.
Starting a New Process in VB
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System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(“http://visualbasic.about.com”)As part of my quest to consume the Amazon Web Service, I wanted to link to the amazon page where this was found. So…I made it so I could do just that! Found some other useful things here.
The previously blogged Code Guru page by Karl Moore gave me the jumpstart to code my own application. Thanks, Karl, might just have to check out your book!
Got My Developer ID
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After signing the Agreement Terms of Service, I was emailed a welcome message that I am now able to access the Amazon Web Services. While they have both paid and free, I am going to access the free ones because I just want to play!!! The email message sent me to a link that, when I logged in, I found my access ID key. Next step — programming!!!!
Following Code Guru — Amazon Web Service
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Amazon.com: Homepage: Amazon Web Services
The link in the Code Guru to get an ID did not take me where I wanted to be so I did a search on “amazon developer” and found this. I am hoping this will be my answer to the next step in setting up this web service.
How about Consuming the Amazon.com Web Service?
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CodeGuru: Querying the Amazon.com Web Service
In my quest for finding that illusive weather web service that I can consume…I came across this. I also am using ScribeFire, the Firefox Add-in to process this blog entry. I really like Qumana for offline work, but this is great for when I am online and find something good. I also have finally embraced del.icio.us. My-O-My! That has shrunk my email box down to fewer that 40 emails — I was using the Inbox as storage to all those cool links that people send me and I haven’t got around to reading yet! Now I just stick them on del.icio.us and there are there all nicely tagged!
Weather Web Service — Pending…
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Mikhail Arkhipov (MSFT)’s WebLog : Weather Forecast ASP.NET user control
I am looking for a weather web service that I can place in my VB.NET program. Ran across this, and thought I would blog it for later viewing.
Installing a Program Created in Visual Studio 2008 – VB
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I got this error when I was tring to install a VB application written in 2008 onto a machine that did not have the 2008 Visual Studio Application nor the .NET 3.5 Framework.
I did find a link to download the ReportViewer, and I’ll try that next. What is frustrating is that I don’t have machines to test the install out on. My machines have Visual Studio on them so it works fine. Other machines that I have access to — I don’t have administrator rights to install!
Critical Friends
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We had a unique experience last night in our weekly meeting in SL. After our group discussion, we broke into two groups. My group went off to discuss our projects using a technique called “Critical Friends.” In our group, one person “talked” (we used text chat so that we could log our discussion easily — an not to be overheard by the other group). After they had finished, the listeners gave feedback — or a brain dump. While we were doing that, we also were able to overhear the discussion that Dr. Gibson was having with the other group on writing skills for professional papers. Talk about multi-channel! While I thought it was distracting at first, I realized that I was able to adapt to, and actually enjoy, the distraction!
Sewing With Nancy’s Favorite Hints
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I have many Nancy Zieman books, but I refer to this one for reminders and inspiration. I have watched her PBS program for probably the 20 years that it has been on! This compilation takes you from an organized sewing room (do you have one of those?) through notions, embellishments, quilting, and machine embroidery. In the 20th anniversary edition of this book, she shares “Take 5″: a behind-the-scenes look into the production of her TV show.
10, 20, 30 Minutes to Sew for Your Home
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In Nancy Zieman’s 10, 20, 30 Minutes to Sew for the Home, you’ll find many great projects for home dec. Her wonderful approach to sewing in short periods of time really does work!
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