What Happened on Wednesday.

This morning, we had an orientation at 8:00 a.m. in the Library, going over all of the online library and reference tools that are available at CSU. There is truly a ton of information at our fingertips nowadays, from any computer in the world. I remember doing the same thing years and years ago when I started my undergrad. work at CSU, they showed us how to use the card catalog and how to find the microfiche reader. I guess that dates me a little bit...

Working at the Library was very frustrating, however, as we did not have access to our network drive to save files and text. Apparently, we can only get there from the computers in the Education building (and other CAHS computers.) I quickly gave up and went to the 220 lab in the Ed. Building. You can access all of the library's materials there and save things, as well.

Tim, Robert and I spent a good deal of time at the lab (almost 2 hours) working on our Methods project. We are mapping standards to an outline of a high school business course. This is very tedious. First approach was to develop a course unit, then try to seek and capture all of the different standards that would apply to the unit. Then repeat 9 times for an 18 week, semester long course. This is almost impossible to do.

I came up with what I think is a better idea, I have my basic course concept in my head. I went to all of the applicable standards for business and Colorado Model Content and am cutting and pasting any standard that I think might be appropriate for any part of the course. I have completed this. Now, I will use this as a template, recopying my entire list of standards for each unit I create and going back and deleting the standards that are not appropriate to the unit. This will get the job done much more quickly, I feel, as deleting standards that are there already is much easier than hunting and finding the standards new each time.

In the afternoon, we had our "Environment" class with Lee. We talked about Rules, Discipline, Procedures, etc.

After class, I talked with Terry about my registration, which was still showing me as short one class. She is an absolute hero, in my mind. She immediately jumped on the phone to the Dean of the Graduate School (today is the last day that classes can be added to registration.) Within five minutes, she had taken care of my registration problem on the phone.

I am so glad that Terry is part of Project Promise. She is a true fighter and a great ally for the program.