Donna's Blog Account

I've decided to do a Web Quest in the computer lab at school for our computer project (and thus the subject of my paper). There are so many projects that I'd rather do, but since I don't know their capabilities on the computer, and they need to study some French cities, we'll do a quest of cities in France. Each student has chosen a major city and all the information will be new to the students, so maybe that will keep their interest. The fact that we get to go to the lab and have a new experience will be energizing. I must come up with a set of instructions and guidelines for content. I think the presentation to class will be in a simple power point form, so that we can use the computers a little more.
I had to get permission to either displace a class that meets in the computer lab or join that class while my students work quietly on their projects. I'm waiting for the teacher's answer. I hope to get the students to the lab this week. Like tomorrow. I want to get started on this paper, but we have to do the project first. I need a title too. (I wonder if I should request that my French classes always meet in the computer lab in future years...) That way, we'd have access to computers for the many projects that are available....hmmm.
I'm liking the computer these days....

Haven't blogged in a while, although I really like the blogging thing. I've been checking out the syllabus for 1120 and I think the online material is very good. It would take a student far beyond the 30 minutes per week to go through everything there. I wonder how many actually take advantage of all there is to offer there...I found so many links that I could go on for hours and hours just visiting those sites...there's even a "Learn Creole" site, with the grammar rules, etc. This is so good, I think, and I enjoy doing the exercises myself for practice.
I did find 2 typos, which I reported to the company using the comments and suggestions link...I'm sure they'll thank me:).