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My LTMS 520 assessment class has a case study due this Thursday. With my partner, we fine tuned the wikispace that we developed to demonstrate our work throughout the case study. This case study was helpful to reflect on the purpose of assessment and the ways in which evaluation can guide the next step in a training process.

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I also created a cyber safety presentation for our LTMS 615 class that could be used as a way to communicate safe cyber practices to parents of children K-3.

This week I had a meeting with Angie McWilliams, our Instructional Technology Coordinator, and Hugh Torbert, our Technology Coordinator. We discussed MMS and some of the difficulties that were occurring with importing or exporting data into or from the database. We also worked together to develop a for a video tutorial to demonstrate the initial set up of eChalk. We used Captivate and the software simulation (demo mode) to create the videos. We then had some troubleshooting to determine the best way to make the videos available to teachers. The swf file that is the default for Captivate to publish was only playing the audio when embedded on the district tech wiki. Then we tried to publish them as a wmv file, which did not work because the video was too big. So, I suggested that we create a youtube account to be able to upload and then embed the videos onto the wiki. Hugh created a general district log-in for a you tube account (because this will not be blocked for students or teachers next year). We published the Captivate file as the wmv, uploaded to youtube, and then embedded into the district tech wiki. It was a rough copy, but we wanted to at least produce something to check that the embedding and video and audio would work. Angie and I plan to meet next week to develop more tutorials for eChalk.

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