Updates

For those of you that don't have your picture up here and want it up, please send me your photo through e-mail. I don't want to leave anyone out!

If you get the chance, please join in me in congratulating Theresa Stevens for getting some of her work published. Congrats Theresa!

Kevin and Kathleen: Thank you for our input about blogging! It's fun to discuss our different experiences with workshops.

David has suggested some excellent tools for us to use in guest lecturing. Have you had a chance to check out Audioboo or Voicethread? Do you plan to try it out?

In other news, I have decided to discontinue using Google calendar for our schedule. I will still be using the Master Schedule in Google docs. Some of you have trouble opening it, but I will be sending it in a PDF or Word document via e-mail very frequently and I will be in touch with you all through e-mail whenever I have assigned you a lecture with the assignment details and any special requests the professor has for the workshop. In most cases, I will be forwarding you the email interaction I have with the professor. I believe this will prevent any miscommunications from happening and you will feel more on the same page when it comes time to retrieve the materials and post them/contact the professor. This will create more interaction in your inboxes. I apologize for that and I my suggestion would be to create a folder in your email account for all assignment details or guest lecture related information. I'm sure you all have your own methods to organizing your assigned lectures at home as well :)

Eventually, we should have a system more like John's to sort out GL requests and you will have your own GL accounts to sign into to retrieve those requests. In the meantime, I think using the Master Schedule and communicating with you over e-mail is the best way to continue on.

What does/will summer be like? Time will tell! For those that have looked at the schedule for summer so far, it's filling up slowly and this is before David and I have sent out invitations to professors. Once I notice classes starting to fill up in mid-May, we will begin contacting all the summer professors and filling up the schedule. If you get any free time, it would be great if you worked on your video messages (if you haven't perfected them already). Since you can embed an Audioboo message anywhere in David's materials, it might be fun to create a few different personalized messages that you could use for all of your guest lectures. I always begin by writing out a script and practicing it a few times first. If you need tips on this, David is obviously our audio/video pro! :)

Have a great weekend!
Michelle