Blog 5

Well we launched our Google Apps for Business Teachers in SC this week, on Wednesday (Oct 28). We had a good response to the flyer that was sent out a week prior to the launch date. Almost 30 teachers inquired about the course and out of those, 17 have signed up for the course. Module 1 was launched on Wednesday and was put together by Daniel London. He did a great job with the videos, and also put together a very informative PowerPoint presentation which served as a course overview. Our next module will be launching next Wednesday (Nov. 4), and will cover Google Docs. William Foster has put together a nice storyboard and I am looking forward to see how his video turns out. This assignment has given us all first hand experience on developing an online training course, something that will benefit us in our future endeavors. I have encouraged all of the teachers that have signed up for this course to give feedback and suggestions so that in the future, this training session will be even more beneficial to them.

Blog 4

As our group is approaching some important deadlines within the next few weeks, I feel that we are prepared. As a group, we are on the right track and know exactly what and when certain tasks must be completed by. However, individually, we need to get on the ball in creating outlines and such for the recording of our training sessions. It is difficult for us to meet outside of class time due to busy schedules. Moving forward with the project, it is time for us to start putting together outlines for video recordings using CamStudio. Each group member has gotten set up on NiceNet and we will be playing around with CamStudio in the next couple of class meetings. Our first training session is scheduled to be delivered on October 28th, which is a couple of weeks away. A tentative flyer for the course has been emailed to Tony Dillon and I am waiting to hear back from him regarding that. As a whole, this group is on the right track, but individually we need to start picking up the pace in getting the deliverables prepared for each training session.