PeterNutting

Please use this page to log your hours and to communicate questions, concerns, needs, progress, etc.

11/5 Hours 2 Comments Research how to link StudyStacks to website--otherwise it's great to have learned how to edit the site with Contribute I will start messing around and researching how to post directly to the StudyStack activity for you.

11/12 Hours 1 in class, 1 out of class Comments How do I get code for more games (e.g., bug match, which Ann Bolvin has on her website)? You link is http://www.studystack.com/users/pnutting

11/19 Hours 1 in class, 1 out of class Comments I want to start looking at how I can make my website more attractive using Dreamweaver Ok, sounds like a plan, what types of colors and graphics would you like to work with?

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12/10 Hours 1 in class Comments I'll continue to add to the study stacks for both French and German. At some point, I'll want to add links and upgrade the appearance of my school website. Maybe you or Nancy can help me plot that out next week. I was glad to get my school website and picture updated today. Yes, we need to sit and talk about what you would like to do and how we can help you. The study stacks seem like a great resource for students.

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1/14 Hours 1.5 hours in class Comments Please put up links to my new webpages (French 1, German 1, German 2)

1/21 Hours 0.5 hours in class, 3 hours outside of class Comments I put up your Bio link, let me know how you want it worded and I will fix it in class.

1/28 Hours 1 hour in class Comments Pull down bio link on sidebar. I asked Nancy to add a new page "German thematic vocabulary." I'd be interested in getting some basic training in Dreamweaver to improve the appearance of my web pages. Contribute is beginning to feel clumsy. OK, I will need to have Skip set you up for Dreamweaver.

2/4 Hours 1.5 hours in class Comments Thanks for getting me started in DW! No problem, I hope it works better for you.

2/11 Hours .5 in class; 1 hour outside of class Comments I'd like to change default for link to allow for different font size and color. ... Lucille was very impressed with Study Stacks and how well students worked with it yesterday. Study Stacks is a great find and you are using it well. I will have to investigate different ways to change the default. Will try to set it to none and/or look at detaching the page from the template.

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3/4 Hours .5 hours in class; 1 hour outside of class Comments I'm chugging right along. Lucille was very impressed with how well my most challenging group of boys in French 2 used the study stacks in the class she was observing. She had fun playing with them herself. Yes, the study stacks are a great find, very motivating for many students.

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4/1 Hours 2 hours outside of class Comments One of my biggest regrets about not teaching next year (I submitted my letter to Brent yesterday--it was either retire with grace and dignity or be cut) is not being able to fully implement study stacks as a teaching and learning tool. Student feedback has been very positive. I have started putting study stacks together for the songs we are doing in class. This helps focus students on those words that they need to be familiar with enough so that they can fill in the blanks and/or translate parts of a song. And it has really helped me answer the fundamental question: what do I really want my students to know? Wow, this is hard. We will miss you and all that you give your students. Please let me know how I can help you with the transition, we can burn CDs of your files, pictures, website, etc so you can take it with you.

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4/15 Hours 3 out of class Comments I continue to build my website. I've added the picture dictionaries and the link to LEO, an outstanding online German-English dictionaries, as well as more study stacks. Is there any way that part or all of my work can be put on the school website so that students (and teachers) can access it in the future? It would really be too bad if it all vanished when I leave. We need to make this happen for you and our students. I will need to figure out where everything is and be sure it is accessible to students and teachers.