My Instructional website

Since my blog has always been about technology I have been creating during my Lesley degree, I should keep with the tradition and post of my newer works that I created earlier this spring. It is an instructional website that includes 8 lessons, which include all required resources for teaching the unit. Although not all of my powerpoints are attached, some are as well as graphic organizers, video clips, and rubrics. I am very proud of the work I did, even though I wasn't all so happy about the work as I was doing it! Below is my site link and I hope it will help others who either have to do the same activity or teach middle/high school history. Enjoy!
https://sites.google.com/site/spring2012cooksey/

Task 52 Liz's Jing Tutorial

Here is my latest assignment for EComp 6016. It is a Tutorial for using Zamzar created with Jing.

My Jing for Zamzar

Task 210 Liz's Editorial Images

The first image "Jaleel 1" is an edited version of a photo I took of an Andrews High School track member. It is simply a head shot showing a particular desire in his eyes. If you didn't know he was a track member you might think he was focused on anything else, maybe a girl or a fight. He is the main focal point of this edited image.

The second image "Jaleel 2" is the original version of the photo I took. It shows this young man in perspective of what he is doing, his event is the 110 hurdles. He is nearing the finish line and he has the determination in his eye to win. He is the middle ground of the photo while the hurdles are the foreground and the bleachers are the background.

Yodio - Cold War and JFK Speech

Task 16 : Liz's illustrated Poster

This is a poster I created for my Ecomp 6016 class but I can use for advertisment of FCA at our school.

Down Falls Electronic Communication

My group and I were recently given an assignment for class. In addition to the assignment, our one instruction to working on it was that we could not speak about the project face to face or over the phone... we had to do it electronically. 

There are more drawbacks to this then you would think!

We decided to use email to commuicate easily, however, you quickly see that you are limited to when people can actullay check their email as to how quick you will be able to get a response. Then, replies can get redundant if people don't remember to "reply to all." Questions will be end up being answered multiple times and concerns expressed more than once.

We also communicated over Skype. This was a disaster (at least for our group!) Our 4 group members and our professor were all scheduled to Skype at one time. Prior to this, a few of us had talked on Skype to get used to it. Well, we figured out that with more than 3 people in a Skype conversation there is a severe echo if everyone doesn't have a microphone and headphones. Although the test run sounded fine, we were unable to understand each other when we had the actual group conversation.

Another down fall of Skype is that you end up talking over each other and then missing what someone is saying before you realize that you are talking at the same time. So there was a lot of repeating and apologizing! 

Although technology usually makes our world more easy to navigate, we have learned that have no face to face communications is actually not part of the "easy navigation!"