Tuesday, April 25, 2006
Breakfast: banana, yogurt, oatmeal with raisins, an orange. Dell ImageBuilder WebCast. Conference at Millberry Union across the street, lunch is included: salad, hot pasta assortment, garlic bread. The event was called Designing the Virtual Classroom and was presented by Rena Palloff and Keith Pratt who are authors of several books which guide the development of online learning environments. I found them to be very knowledgeable and casually engaging presenters. Although our school hasn't done a great deal in this arena and it's arguable whether I can do anything about it, I got a number of excellent suggestions which I can adapt to other projects I'm working on. Special thanks to Rosemary P for inviting me to attend. Picked up a mended towel from the dry cleaners. Dinner at home with Patrick: turkey burgers, french fries. Worked on the RSS feed for Lodestar—almost done. We made the site live yesterday but didn't announce yet coz Patrick hasn't written his announcement letter. We'll announce tomorrow after I complete the RSS feed—only a few more changes needed, about another hour's work.