One week until contact!
Exactly one week from today will be our final face-to-face meeting for CI505. Because our second meeting was canceled due to weather, I think everyone is even more anxious to meet up in the basement of Lago on the 28th. Some students will be presenting their software reviews. Others of us decided to present ours online.
We will also briefly be discussing our final papers. I think I have a pretty good start on mine. I had a solid outline and have a lot of my thoughts on paper. I just need to finalize the 'meat' of the paper. I'm currently installing Geometer's Sketchpad on my home computer so that I can tweak a few thoughts that have been running through my mind. For being a logical-thinking math teacher, I sure do seem scatter-brained sometimes when it comes to these big-picture projects and papers. Ann, our CI505 professor, mentioned in an email or her weekly movie (I can't remember which) that sometimes writing bigger papers from afar can be a challenge. Motivation doesn't seem to be an issue for our cohort, but sometimes I sense that not all of us are on the same page as far as expectations go. We usually end up emailing each other or asking questions on the discussion boards to clarify our thoughts on what the final should look like. Ann asked if I would lead a discussion this coming week focusing in on everyone's progress on the final paper. I think it will be interesting to see where everyone is at. I imagine some will be close to done while others won't have started yet. Based on the initial topic proposals a few weeks ago, some of my colleagues had lots of thinking to do between then and now!
Enough of my ramblings. My wife should be getting home soon. She has been busy this week with her job. This evening, it gave me some time to work on my paper. I'd better take advantage of the time I have left!
Until the next edition of T3...