Day 7 July 12

Today I participated in a virtual classroom experience through elluminate Live. It took a few minutes to adjust to using the interface but it went smoothly. What a great way to learn and work on projects as a group. Today was also another productive day working on our PBL project. We linked the various students in our target class with sites that describe their disability in detail. We also finished our task analysis related to creating a blog. To restrict this project to 2 weeks instead of 2 months we are only dealing with the reading task. That alone presented as something that we could devote a lifetime to. We are, however, going to demonstrate the reading process in a simplified manner using information from Sousa which we have represented using an inspiration document. This project with its many elements can be compared to a website. Every time you click on a topic it expands into a series of topics which can in turn be expanded into a vast array of possibilities. The challenge continues to be to choose good information that meets all of our purposes and display it on our blog in a way that makes sense. I would love to see an inspiration web of the skills and process that we are using to create this project. Maybe that could be another project. Not for this course though!!