Capstone Update #2

The end of grad school is quickly approaching. I am excited, but also nervous. There is still so much to do before the end, and school starts for teachers next week. That's a lot to do in a short amount of time coupled with the COVID-19 stress. BUT, I have made some progress on my capstone project. It's not complete yet, but I seem to have found my groove. I have been looking back at my past work trying to find the resources and quotes I want to include, changing the layout (constantly), and it seems like it is slowly but surely coming together. I still have a LONG way to go, but at least I've made a dent!

Capstone Update

So, here I am working on my stuff for grad school this week and I think I've got a great idea. I don't write it down because it's so good there's no way I will forget it. I finish the thing I was working on and get started on my capstone presentation. Now, I did NOT have the whole thing planned, just an idea of how I wanted to start it. So I'm working on prezi and I do NOT like new prezi, so by the time I give up fighting with that and just go to prezi classic I have forgotten what I wanted my second content slide to include. That means I have my title slide and my first content slide and that is it. I know I need to write things down or else I will forget, but apparently that lesson hasn't sunk in yet. Oh well. At least I go started. And if the idea comes back to me I can always move slides around.

Idea

So, I went back and looked over my posts from my class, when I had to write every week. Now, two in one day! *calm down self* But, looking back at those blogs gave me an idea for a possible focus for my original contribution. It's not fully developed yet, just the beginnings of an idea, but I think it might be good for me to focus on the importance of building relationships and/or the impact of specific, positive praise. Maybe. Or, I may panic myself out of this idea and into something else. Guess we'll wait and see.

It's Been a While

I started this blog because it was required as part of my grad school work for a specific class. But, once that class was over I stopped because why bother? It wasn't mandatory anymore, nobody other than my professor was reading it, and I wasn't sure how I felt about it anyway. Well, here I am at the end of my program and as part of my capstone work I have to make an original contribution that is a "unique project to support my field of study" which is not at all intimidating *sarcasm* I am super intimidate by this. I HATE open ended assignments like this. JUST GIVE ME SOME DIRECTIONS! Anyway, one of my options was to submit an article for publication in a professional journal. And while I LOVE the idea of being published I'm not sure that I have anything that would be interesting to anyone in the education community. My other options that I am considering are a multimedia presentation that I put on an online platform, which to me seems like it could be a facebook group that is specifically for educators. Or, I could create a blog post. So, I'm thinking of doing a combination of the two, create a blog, which check, already got. And post my multimedia presentation to my blog as well as to a facebook group or two. The issue is, 1- I still don't know what I want to contribute and 2- I have no idea how to add a powerpoint presentation to a blog. I guess I could always do a prezi and link it. Maybe that makes more sense. Anyway, I have about two weeks to get this figured out, so I figured I would brainstorm some ideas here, kind of as a track record of how this original contribution has evolved. So, wish me luck!