Week 4: Publishing/Leadership Presentation

"Blank Business Card" (2010) The Stock Exchange. http://sxc.hu

I was all set to present during the Saturday Wimba session and missed out thanks to a power outage. I plan on going in and listening to the archive to see how some of my classmate's final projects sounded.

As fate would have it, a Skype call from Stacie Stoumbaugh with some great tips and hints earlier in the day led me to make some final changes to my work. So HUGE shout out to Stacie with her grammar help!

I'm excited to be almost finished with this program and look forward to moving towards the future.

My project can be viewed here: http://web.me.com/dinobot50/AR_Website/Publishing_Leadership.html

Week 4: Publishing/Leadership part 3

"Burning to Ashes" (2010) The Stock Exchange http://sxc.hu

I've made my decision and I think that I will be submitting to Computing in Education (AACE). I have mixed feelings about this as I am not in this career for the prestige that can be showered down upon me. My AR was specific to my classes and what I did worked. I'm finding so far this year that it's a different scenario with different students who no where near possess the amount of knowledge concerning technology that last year's students did.

Now my AR feels more like one of those studies that tries to convince you that something is a best practice. I really don't feel comfortable selling myself this way, and I don't feel comfortable marketing Full Sail's name.

Ultimately I pursued this degree to better myself and to fulfill my desire to be a life long learner. That was and always will be my only goal.

Week 3: Publishing/Leadership Part II

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I felt like I really needed to look at the submission guidelines for the various publications to see where I might be interested in, or be able to submit it for consideration.

There are many excellent sources to choose from, and Edutopia would have been my first. However, this past year they decided to eliminate the magazine portion of their organization and there weren't any links present which indicated that they would take submissions for consideration for inclusion on their site. I plan to email them to ascertain the new process for submission as well as for the guidelines to do so.

Since ISTE is another of my fan favorites, I decided to look at the requirements for publishing in thier Journal of Research on Technology in Education. Unfortunately the length requirements begin at 4000 words which is 2000 more than the allowed length for MAC.

After a bit more searching, I came upon Computing in Education (AACE). What I particularly like about this publication is that I can submit my AR project to a subject appropriate publication, which in my case would be social studies.

I'm getting closer to making my final decision, but I do realize that I need to do a bit more research into the choice of publication before I begin composing my paper for submission.

Week 3: Publishing/Leadership

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To Write a Paper or to Present...That is the Question

This is a very difficult question for me at this time. On one hand I detest writing and reading papers, but on the other I equally detest Keynote. One of the concepts that I'm having a difficult time dealing with is the fact that over the past 10 months we've learned so many interesting ways to deliver media, yet this is what my end result choices are reduced to.

At this time, I am thinking that it might be more in my favor to just write the paper. As much as the opportunity to present my findings at a conference excites me, I don't exactly know if I will be able to commit myself to any speaking engagements should my work be deemed worthy enough to deliver to an audience of my peers. That coupled with the fact that my AR was so personal to me and my classroom that I feel like speaking about it will be equivalent to "preaching to the choir."