Day 3 of "Using Databases in Education" - Sum '06

Just another day in Paradise.

Today we had the Name Tent competition. We had a tie for 1st place. The winners were Sarah Ling and Sherri Neofotist. What creativity!!!

Today we reviewed our future plans:

Tomorrow, Thursday, we will meet in SEC 127.
We will explore del.icio.us and other Web databases.
Due to popular requests we will learn about Blogging and Podcasting
(Come with a topic that you want to share with your students)

We will then have a week where we will stay home and work at home on these activities.

During the week of June 26 - 29, we will meet in the lab of ITTC.
I will meet you there at 1:00 PM. A contingent of students said that they would know where to go and they would meet outside the Union at 12:50 so that they can then walk over to the ITTC.

We will have guest speakers to tell us about how they use data to improve their schools.
On Monday, June 26, (Craig Barnum from Prairie High School.)
On Tuesday, June 27, we will hear from Aaron Spurr from Price Lab School.

They will present from 4:00 - 5:00 and then we will take the speaker to dinner. Hope that you can join us.

We reviewed the Expanded Personal Database Assignment.

Eric and Courtney lead a wonderful presentation on the article they reviewed "10 Essential Elements."

We completed the Chapter 3 discusssion and then reviewed the school data from Chapter 4 of our book. It brought a great deal of insightful discussion.

We finished with spending some time working on Access projects.

The audio track will be uploaded by classtime tomorrow.

Websites discussed in class today:

ITEC (Iowa Technology and Education Connection) This is the primary educational organization in Iowa for using technology to support learning. There is a great conference in Des Moines every October. You should really go to visit it.