BTW - Today is St. Patrick's Day. I am expecting a lot of traffic downtown due to early partiers, so I will be heading out soon for school to avoid any crowds.
Saturday, March 17, 2012
Happy St. Patty's Day!
We have finally gotten to week 10 and our Executive Weekend. I always enjoy these meetings with our professors and the cohort. It is convenient to have a blended format for our coursework, but the occasional face-to-face meeting is always fun and interesting. There is a greater interaction and synergy than discussion boards and Wimbas. An old fashioned class - how refreshing!
BTW - Today is St. Patrick's Day. I am expecting a lot of traffic downtown due to early partiers, so I will be heading out soon for school to avoid any crowds.
For all that celebrate - Have a Happy Holiday and May the Luck of the Irish Be With You!
BTW - Today is St. Patrick's Day. I am expecting a lot of traffic downtown due to early partiers, so I will be heading out soon for school to avoid any crowds.
Thursday, March 15, 2012
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
What an Exciting Experience
As I mentioned earlier today, Philadelphia Cohort #1 participated in a poster presentation session that highlighted our research project work.
There were so many wonderful presentations - congratulations everyone for doing such a fantastic job. It was amazing to see how well developed everyone's research has become. I found it heartening to hear that others were also in the process of revising their original project to incorporate newer, more innovative ideas and concepts that they had found as they did more research into their topic.
This truly is a "process". One that evolves as we become more experienced and knowledgeable about our research subjects.
Today was energizing! I want to dive right back in there and refine my work. It is still a long road ahead but I am ready for the rest of this adventure!
There were so many wonderful presentations - congratulations everyone for doing such a fantastic job. It was amazing to see how well developed everyone's research has become. I found it heartening to hear that others were also in the process of revising their original project to incorporate newer, more innovative ideas and concepts that they had found as they did more research into their topic.
This truly is a "process". One that evolves as we become more experienced and knowledgeable about our research subjects.
Today was energizing! I want to dive right back in there and refine my work. It is still a long road ahead but I am ready for the rest of this adventure!
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| Pat Markey and Dr. Joyce Pittman discuss poster details. |
Today is Poster Day!
The semester is almost over and we have reached an important day in both our writing class (EDUC815) and in our doctoral studies.
Our cohort is presenting posters that represent much of the work we have completed in our program so far. We have a choice of providing a visual representation of our Spencer Grant Proposal or our Chapter 2 - Literature Review.
I am looking forward to seeing my colleagues' work. There are some exciting research projects going on!
Our cohort is presenting posters that represent much of the work we have completed in our program so far. We have a choice of providing a visual representation of our Spencer Grant Proposal or our Chapter 2 - Literature Review.
I am looking forward to seeing my colleagues' work. There are some exciting research projects going on!
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
Week Ten!
I always find Week 10 to be exciting, stressful, exhausting, and energizing - I know, a weird and conflicting set of adjectives to describe my feelings about a time period.
Week 10 is always a flurry of activity. Trying to complete last minute projects, finish discussion board entries, blog entries, take tests (when required), redo those "drafts" that need to be corrected and polished up, etc.
It is always a long week of work. Which is followed by our Executive Weekend meeting where it is always refreshing to see and hear from members of our wonderful cohort.
And when that last assignment is completed and submitted - I am ready to jump for joy because we are that much closer to our final goal AND it also means that we have a couple of weeks to enjoy with our families and friends!
Week 10 is always a flurry of activity. Trying to complete last minute projects, finish discussion board entries, blog entries, take tests (when required), redo those "drafts" that need to be corrected and polished up, etc.
It is always a long week of work. Which is followed by our Executive Weekend meeting where it is always refreshing to see and hear from members of our wonderful cohort.
And when that last assignment is completed and submitted - I am ready to jump for joy because we are that much closer to our final goal AND it also means that we have a couple of weeks to enjoy with our families and friends!
Friday, March 9, 2012
Kinkos Here I Come
While working on the poster for our presentation next week, many of us took advantage of the downloadable templates that are available free online. Some of the links to these sites were provided by our professor, Dr. Joyce Pittman. (Thank you!)
The next step - after completing the template - was to figure out the best way to have these printed and ready for hanging next Wednesday.
I was leaning towards using Poster Presentations, one of the companies supplying free template downloads. I did speak to someone about the deadlines for submitting our files and was assured by a customer service rep that if my poster had not arrived (from California) by Tuesday afternoon, they would FedEx it out for delivery by 10:30 Wednesday morning, free of charge. Sounded good, but I don't want to be standing there with an empty board behind me next week, so I looked for other options.
D. Rahn, A. Edwards and a few others in our cohort told me about Drexel's printing services. I think they charge $3.00 a square foot, but they want a week's lead time, and I couldn't make that. Some people on campus may be able to get theirs done there with less time needed.
I finally started calling around and found that FedEx/Kinkos has a 24 hour turn-around time - perfect for the last minute person. They charge $7.25 a square foot, but that eliminates shipping costs I would have paid with Poster Presentations - and the charge for the poster itself was about the same amount.
So, Drexel is the most reasonably priced, but Kinko's is the most convenient for me.
The next step - after completing the template - was to figure out the best way to have these printed and ready for hanging next Wednesday.
I was leaning towards using Poster Presentations, one of the companies supplying free template downloads. I did speak to someone about the deadlines for submitting our files and was assured by a customer service rep that if my poster had not arrived (from California) by Tuesday afternoon, they would FedEx it out for delivery by 10:30 Wednesday morning, free of charge. Sounded good, but I don't want to be standing there with an empty board behind me next week, so I looked for other options.
D. Rahn, A. Edwards and a few others in our cohort told me about Drexel's printing services. I think they charge $3.00 a square foot, but they want a week's lead time, and I couldn't make that. Some people on campus may be able to get theirs done there with less time needed.
I finally started calling around and found that FedEx/Kinkos has a 24 hour turn-around time - perfect for the last minute person. They charge $7.25 a square foot, but that eliminates shipping costs I would have paid with Poster Presentations - and the charge for the poster itself was about the same amount.
So, Drexel is the most reasonably priced, but Kinko's is the most convenient for me.
Thursday, March 8, 2012
Getting Ready for the Poster Presentation
Hashing out the poster presentation work and finding myself having to make a lot of decisions about what belongs on the poster.
These decisions also drive the decision on what size to make the poster. I started out with a 3'x4' template downloaded from an Internet site. This size was the minimum size recommended for the presentation and I did not think I needed anything bigger to display my work.
Once I got started, I realized that I needed more room for what I wanted to include so I downloaded another, larger size. Well, long story, short - I am working on my third poster size and I am sticking with this one. It isn't that hard changing the sizes, but I do have to copy and paste information from the old one to the new one and this is just not an efficient use of my time. I am now sticking with a 3 1/2'x5' template and I am sure it will be more than adequate.
These decisions also drive the decision on what size to make the poster. I started out with a 3'x4' template downloaded from an Internet site. This size was the minimum size recommended for the presentation and I did not think I needed anything bigger to display my work.
Once I got started, I realized that I needed more room for what I wanted to include so I downloaded another, larger size. Well, long story, short - I am working on my third poster size and I am sticking with this one. It isn't that hard changing the sizes, but I do have to copy and paste information from the old one to the new one and this is just not an efficient use of my time. I am now sticking with a 3 1/2'x5' template and I am sure it will be more than adequate.
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