Progress

Had a whirlwind week and weekend iterating with Dave and Shelley on our paper. There is still work to be done, and being away last weekend caused me to lose some time that I would have liked to spend on it. But I think we are in decent shape and will try to get together with the team before class for some final touches.
I am not happy with the amount or level of the math I had put into the project - it seems like it should be more advanced but I felt then it would be too sophisticated. I couldn;t seem to find a middle ground but I included some graphing, plotting and basic trigonometry.

Prophesy Paper #2

We got the assignment for paper # 2 on Monday. SInce I had good results with number 1, I'm thinking I'll use a similar format - the father to son letter as a vehicle.
I volunteerd with Tammy to be the 2 person group for the next project - Bio-Tech. Joe had mentioned an issue with GM meddling of bananas, so we are using that as a topic.

Prophesy Paper #1 Feedback

Good news - the prophesy paper was well received, although I need to resubmit with references. I didn't keep a log of the research I did so I'll need to retrace my steps.
I did get some confidence that I was on the right track with the concept, which will make #2 a little easier.
I enjoy writing and wish I had more time for it (or took more time for it).

Thoughts

I've mentioned this before - I feel at a real disadvantage (I would almost say stupid) compared to many in the class. I have a feeling a need to reprogram my brain to think like a teacher as opposed to an engineer. Some of the methodolgy is starting to make sense as we work on our group project.
Another stumbling block I know I will have is the concept of assessment. This is new to me - and I never was comfortable with the idea of judging someone. After some investigation with the project I can certainly see value in having a detailed rubric for creating an assessment framework.
Onward and upward.

Paper 1 DONE!

Handed in the first prophesy paper on Monday February 7. I ended up with what I hope was a decent format for the paper. I created it in a "letter to dad" format to a son. It worked well for this paper since the letter itself is a form of info/comm tech. Some of the items for the future were based on current ideas of virtual reality and such, so they should be reasonable predictions. We did some additional group work tonight on laying out our lesson plan. Dave had a lot of photo chemistry detail which looked good and we chose a sort of dual format - some actual lesson content along with the description of the lesson plan as described in the assignment and rubric.