March 22-26

This week began with preparation for the GSA Symposium. Monday we reviewed the content for the presentation. On Tuesday, the poster printer arrived. I assembled the printer. We found that the printer needs to be connected to a dedicated Ethernet port. I will need to configure the IP address and install the software to a computer in order for it to work. Wednesday, we presented our information at the GSA Symposium. Thursday, we set up the 220L classroom in preparation of Elza's smartboard training session.

I am now looking to find innovative uses for video blogging in the lab. I will attempt to implement some use of this during the upcoming week.

march 15-19

During this week I have been considering how to use the blog features. I have been using some of the html coding features to change the display of the blog text. I feel that this feature may help to increase the overall appearance of our blogs. I am not very familiar with html coding, so I have been using the following website to better understand coding http://www.quackit.com/html/codes/html_marquee_code.cfm.

PLEASE REMEMBER TO POST YOUR WEEKLY ENTRY BY FRIDAY AT 11:59PM

Adding Links to other blog pages

Now that each of us has our blog set up, we must now link our blogs to the other Lab GA’s blogs.

1) Log on to your blogger account and select “View Blog”

This will take you to your blog page.

2) At the top of your blog page, you will notice a tool bar. Select the “Customize” tab

This will take you to a page that will allow you to make changes to the look of your blog.

3) Within this screen, there are several links with the name “Add a Gadget.” You must select one of the “Add a Gadget” tabs depending on where on the page you would like the links to your co-workers page links to appear.

Selecting “Add a Gadget” will take you to a list of predetermined gadgets within blogger.

4) Once the list of Gadgets appears, please scroll down until you see the gadget named “Link list.” This link will allow you to add links to other blogs and web pages. We will use this function to link the GA’s pages. Click “Link List”

A window will now show that allows you to configure this gadget.

5) A- In the “Title” bar Please write the name ET Lab Staff

B- In the “New Site URL” bar, insert the URL of the Lab Staff’s blogs (one at a time)

C- In the “New site Name” bar, insert the Full name of the Lab Staff member that created the blog indicated in Step B.

D- Click “Add link”, this should make the name and link appear in the list of links. Please check each link for accuracy prior to

Clicking “Save”

(Repeat Step B-D for each Lab Staff Member)

E- Click “Save”

After clicking “Save”, you will be redirected to the layout screen.

6) Now that you have made changes to your gadget, click “Preview” to view the appearance of your blog with the recent changes. Once you are satisfied with the changes, click “Save”.

Guidelines for Blog Posts

Evaluation Criteria

Each lab GA is responsible for keeping a weekly log of progress on their individual projects. On Friday of each week, each GA will log on to their blog and give an overview of the tasks completed during the week. Blog’s can be submitted via: audio, video, or text format.

Once the weekly blog post has been created, each lab GA is responsible for evaluating the weekly work of their co-workers. All lab GA’s are responsible for providing a critique of the material that include: Weakness, Strengths and Suggestions for improvement. Feedback needs to be provided to co-workers by Wednesday at 11:59pm.