Discussions++Web+Conferences

=Below is the text from a web conference I attended where Dr. Abernathy was the host and was discussing the requirements for the Internship Course. I have edited it and included only the important information learned from this webinar and thought the information from the webinar was very concise and understandable about what the expectations are from Dr. Abernathy and the internship portion of the program. The only suggestion I have for web confernences is I wish that my peers would wait and give the host, Dr. Abernathy a chance to get the information out. There are too many public personal chats that make it difficult to pull out and concentrate on the important information from Dr. Abernathy.=

Kay Abernathy: I have given you the first 3 tasks for your field-based activities logs and reflections. The updated field-based logs and reflections are to be turned into me on the first day of every month until you readh the internship class. Kay Abernathy: These are great quesitons and I will respond to each one. Kay Abernathy: A big issue right now: Internship is 5388 and so is the web class. That is because 5388 is a special topics number and if our class title is not what is in the catalog, we must use 5388. So...you may have more than one 5388 on your transcript. It depends on when you take internship and when you take the web class. Kay Abernathy: No internship is not the same as research. Kay Abernathy: Have you read the v. 3 of the handbook. I will send SyllabusThey are your in your textbook. Kay Abernathy: My mic tests out just fine. Kay Abernathy: Amy, Chapters 1 and 2 in your textbook. The textbook is your reading for internship. Kay Abernathy: Who else wants to use your mic and ask me a question? Kay Abernathy: Read the syllabus: In the end, you will turn in two documents: 1. Kay Abernathy: 1. The ePortfolio which consists of reading reflections, field-based logs and reflections, and course embedded assignment reflections. Kay Abernathy: 2. Comprehensive Exam....see the latest syllabus and weeks 1-5 assignments. It is much clearer now. Kay Abernathy: It is easier to see the big picture and put everything in to a category. http://internshipforeducationaltechnology.wikispaces.com/ Kay Abernathy: A big concern I have. Many --Most of you reflected upon the courses themselves in the field-based activities. You are to reflect upon the assignments that you have completed. We call those Course-embedded assignemnt reflections and we have given you 100 hours for completing them within the 8 course assignments we included. Kay Abernathy: The big picture. Where you are going!!!! Kay Abernathy: The course-embedded reflections are given to you in the Internship Handbook. We have updated the exact assignment in 8 different courese. A detailed rubric is included not in your syllabus and in the Weeks 1-5 Aassignments that tell you exactly what goes in each refleciton. Kay Abernathy: The course-embedded reflections are given to you in the Internship Handbook. We have updated the exact assignment in 8 different courese. A detailed rubric is included not in your syllabus and in the Weeks 1-5 Aassignments that tell you exactly what goes in each refleciton. In the course yet, you cannot see it. That is why it is posted to the wiki site or I will send it to you....Email me at the gmail account. Kayabernathy@gmail.com Kay Abernathy: Call at 409=782-0100. You are not reading carefully enough. This is serious reading. Kay Abernathy: ) kayabernathy@gmail.com Kay Abernathy: It is fine to create a new wiki for your ePortfolio or not. Your choice. When we ask you to submit your field-based logs and reflections, you should submit the link to your document. Kay Abernathy: For graduation requirements email luacademic@lamar.edu. You have special instructions. Kay Abernathy: Academic Partnership students have special instructions and timelines, but you are responsible for getting the application in. Just email luacademic@lamar.edu Kay Abernathy: You do need to pay fees by whatever date you get from luacademic@lamar.edu Kay Abernathy: Even if you are not coming to Beaumont and walking for graduation. Kay Abernathy: You must pay for a diploma and to officially graduate. Kay Abernathy: Another thing: you do not have a coach in Internship until you are in the class. I am your instructor, coach, and mother! Kay Abernathy: Do not ask your coach for internship information. I send it to them...and most just send it on to me when you ask them questions. Kay Abernathy: Research may be very different if you have not already had it. We are working right now to make best decisions. Kay Abernathy: Yes, if you are doubling up AND you complete all courses successfully AND you apply and pay, you graduate in August. Kay Abernathy: If you have already had a course and you have a course embeeded assignment in the courses you have completed, you willl happy if you go ahead and do those reflections....but look at the rubrics for reflections one more time. Kay Abernathy: Read the syllabus and Weeks 1-5 assignments, Kay Abernathy: Each week you read 2 chapters in your textbook and you reflect upon those readings. Week 1 = Chapters 1 and 2 with 2 chapters also in Weeks 2, 3, and 4. Kay Abernathy: Everything can be redone until you turn in week 5 in the internship course! Kay Abernathy: Yes, Joe, the comprehensive exam is done during the internship course. It is take home exam. Kay Abernathy: Required by the Graduate College. Kay Abernathy: We always encourage collaboration. I believe you learn more. Kay Abernathy: But...we expect original writing and APA carefully followed. If you do not have APA Publication Manual, Ed. 7, I think it is...you need it. Kay Abernathy: No, because we gae them until June 28 to complete it--the same date as Cohorts 2 and 3 if they want to graduate in August. Kay Abernathy: If you cannot turn in your ePortfolio and field-based activies summary report by June 28,you cannot graduate in August. Kay Abernathy: See the summary report in your handbook. You site mentor must sign it and tell us that you have completed it. That means you change your plan for field-based activities at any time up to June 28. Kay Abernathy: The eportfolio is the reason you have your wiki since first course.