Saturday, March 28, 2009

Class 3/26/09

In class we discussed differences in language use and also went through the quiz answers.  I think we focused more on cultural and gender styles of learning as related to language than Dr. Smidt originally intended, but I guess it's natural to think of that as educators.  I hope that was okay.  I found the discussion very interesting, and I think it's important to think about that.  

We used the whiteboards again to diagram sentences, but then didn't have a good way to share our answers.  There must be a way to do this... I wonder if we can find out from someone at MSU so we can still use it as a resource?  It's really a great tool.  I think that the descriptions of the sentence diagrams must have been confusing for those who didn't have the quiz in front of them, but I thought it was okay since I was able to open my quiz up.

However, when I open up Dr. Smidt's answers, the lines don't show up at all.  For some reason, both my PC and Mac computers don't seem to support the format.  I'm going to e-mail her to see if she knows what program I need to have.
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  1. CarlyMarch 28, 2009 at 10:29 AM

    P.S. I figured out how to open the quiz doc in a different application and saw the correct format. :)

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  2. Shrimpy loverMarch 28, 2009 at 8:51 PM

    I think so too, it could be very confusing by just listening to the tree diagrams descriptions.

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  3. Lillian ChangMarch 29, 2009 at 2:30 PM

    Good to hear that you could open Dr. smidt's answer doc. Right, letping. It would be more clear if we could use board to apply the tree diagrams.

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  4. Esther SmidtApril 13, 2009 at 1:43 PM

    I just bought a Wacom tablet, which allows me to use a pen instead of a mouse. We'll see whether it would be better once it actually arrives, because you're right, the WhiteBoard is really an excellent tool and it'd be a pity to give up on it.

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