week 4

    Things are really starting to settle in around MACA. Now that were on week four I think everbody's learned their locker combos and arent wandering the halls looking for their next class anymore. Anyway last week went really well. Me, Kara and Alet worked hard on our wiki project. Henry Lemon's twitter account is lookin prettty sweeet. So yup we got that turned into the second phase spot on moodle. Also last week we got to work on our 20 time projects. I basically just researched various coral reefs since thats my topic. Im still trying to pick my faorites but I found some really cool reefs out near Fiji and some place called the coral triangle. From what I learned coral reefs arent doing to well these days, in other words due to all the toxic waste their starting to die all over the world. People dont really see how much this will effect them. In other words if the coral reefs all die the fish will die and then the fish that rely on those fish for food will die and so on until the food chain works its way up to us... coral reefs play an important role in the environment.

     Challenges I faced this week would include just distractions on getting homework done. Its been tough lately, not all the teachers are obeying the 2 night a week rule so sometimes Im overloaded. Another challenge was editing our wiki. Without Alet to help us Im not sure if me and Kara would have been able to work out all the formatting. Lastly for challenges I would have to say the cross country meet last weekend. I got a cold from running into the wind that day, not feelin too hot right now.

     Successes of this week would be working on our wiki project. Alet, Kara, and me were able to get Henry Lemon's profile set up. We also got some good screen shots and worked on editing them. We edited them in skitch and used the arrows and circles to explain the steps in our wiki. So when we finished we got our project turned in to phase 2 on time:) Another success would be my progress on the 20 time project. I got a lot of work done on it in class the other day and its really starting to get interesting. I like that we have our own time to research what we want to learn about. Lastly I had success in getting all my assignments turned in on time. Hopefully I can keep this up for awhile.

     This week I plan to continue working on my 20 time project. Basically Im gonna pick up where I left off last week and just keep researching all well known islands/areas with coral reefs and choose the top ten best spots. I also plan to continue working on the wiki project. This week we are going to collaborate with people from the other CS1 class. Our other group is the leprechauns so hopefully we can get together and combine the best parts of our wikis. Lastly this week I pan to go to a family reunion. All my family from West Virginia and other places are coming together on Saturday. Thats why Im really glad we have Friday off so I can spend the day with my cousins;)

     As for utilizing/growing my PLN Im just gonna keep researching coral reefs and following the plan/schedule I made for the project. Also me and my group buddies are gonna continue working on our wiki projects and making sure they look awesome. Lastly Ill be attempting to read more of Wuthering Heights this week for lit class, its a pretty depressing book.

     I lived out the verse this week by working well with my group. Sometimes its hard to get along with people you hang with every day but we were able to work as a team and get the project done. Also I would say I lived out the verse this week because I didnt lie or hold any grudges... so yup.

     Sorry for the late post, I had alot of other work to do.