http://kgranfield.edublogs.org Another excellent Edublogs.org weblog Fri, 15 Aug 2008 20:15:54 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en For my final project I created a wiki: aofjobshadows.wikispaces.com This wiki is to be used by a small learning community, the Academy of Finance, at San Diego High School of Business. This group is made up of about 60 juniors and seniors each year. The Academy students go on two ... http://kgranfield.edublogs.org/2008/08/15/final-project/ Evaluation of Job Shadow Site: How will you know if this site is helping your users reach the objectives you’ve defined for them? I will need to wait until round two of the job shadows, most likely, to find this out. After the students have attended their first job shadow and ... http://kgranfield.edublogs.org/2008/08/15/addie-evaluation/ Implementation of Job Shadow Site: How will you introduce this to the class? Our first job shadow will be in November. During early October I will introduce the Academy juniors and seniors to the wiki. I will first go through the site with them using an LCD projector. I ... http://kgranfield.edublogs.org/2008/08/15/addie-implementation/ Development of Job Shadow Blog: What tools (or combination of tools) will you use to support the site? I have decided to go with the wiki over the blog for this site. This will be easier to manage with so many different businesses, and I am going to organize them by ... http://kgranfield.edublogs.org/2008/08/15/d-development/ Here is the practice 1-minute podcast. I completed this podcast by using it as a recruiting tool to describe a small learning community to prospective students. Enjoy! Informational podcast for the Academy of Finance http://kgranfield.edublogs.org/2008/08/13/1-minute-podcast/ After planning the design for my final project on Thursday, I couldn't help but thinking that a wiki might be better. I think two things were steering me away from doing it as a wiki: I am SO unfamiliar with wikis and afraid I would botch it all up. I have ... http://kgranfield.edublogs.org/2008/08/02/a-wiki-over-a-blog/ Design of Job Shadow Blog: What do you want users to be able to do when they visit this site? Students should be able to go to the correct business' blog site after completing a job shadow and enter a description and opinion of their experience. When it comes time to decide what ... http://kgranfield.edublogs.org/2008/07/31/addie-design/ Analysis of Job Shadow Blog: Who are your users? Users are 11th and 12th grade students in the the Academy of Finance at San Diego High School of Business. There are approximately 50 - 60 total juniors and seniors in the program each year. These students apply and are accepted ... http://kgranfield.edublogs.org/2008/07/31/addie-analysis/ I have two ideas for a final project, both involving blogging and are similarly related. First, a little background: I am in charge of a small learning community (the Academy of Finance) at my school made up of about 60 11th and 12th graders. The entire group of students ... http://kgranfield.edublogs.org/2008/07/31/idea-for-final-project/ I am a Business Education teacher at the School of Business at San Diego High.  I teach many electives, though during the upcoming school year I will be teaching Introduction to Business (with a Finance emphasis), Accounting, and Computer Applications.   I have been teaching  at this school for the last ... http://kgranfield.edublogs.org/2008/07/13/kellys-introductory-edublog/