Goals

When I type my goals, it is required that I use the following 22 terms to indicate my goal: categorize, complete, deduce, demonstrate, determine, diagram, distinguish, elaborate, examine, explain, generate, interpret, justify, measure, organize, quantify, qualify redesign, relate, revise, simplify, synthesize, type, annotate

Tuesday-Wednesday, May 11-12, 2010 1. Redesign my Animoto so that it agrees with Dallas' standards. a. I have edited my Animoto. 2. Complete embedding once again. a. I have completed the embedding.

Monday-Tuesday, May 10-11, 2010 1. Generate some more slides. a. I have added more slides to my presentation/ 2. Complete homeroom visits. a. The Student Council and I have completed the homeroom visits.

Friday-Monday, May 7-10, 2010 1. Complete portfolio. a. I have completed my portfolio. 2. Generate link to file on my presentation page. a. I have generated a link to the file of my video on my presentation page.

Thursday-Friday, May 6-7, 2010 1. Redesign my navigation bar to fit the needs of the course wikipage. a. I have redesigned my navigation bar to fit the needs of the course wikipage. 2. Generate embedded file for my presentation wikipage. a. I have generated an embedded file for my presentation wikipage.

Wednesday-Thursday, May 5-6, 2010 1. Redesign my animoto once more. a. I have redesigned my Animoto. 2. Generate a works cited for the images that I have used in my presentation so far. a. I have generated a works cited for the images that I have used in my presentation so far.

Tuesday-Wednesday, May 4-5, 2010 1. Generate a file to embed on my PPT from Zamzar. a. I have generated a file but it was only audio and no video. 2. Generate another file to embed on my PPT from Zamzar. a. This video is only video, with no audio.

Monday-Tuesday, May 3-4, 2010 1. Generate six more slides. a. I have generated six more slides. 2. Complete the video. a. I have completed the Animoto video.

Friday-Monday, April 30-May 3, 2010 1. Redesign the video. a. I have redesigned the video to a longer format. 2. Examine video for errors. a. I have examined the video for errors.

Thursday-Friday, April 29-30, 2010 1. Generate six more slides. a. I have generated six more slides. 2. Generate a 30 second video. a. I have started to generate a video.

Wednesday-Thursday, April 28-29, 2010 1. Generate six more slides. a. I have generated six more slides. 2. Generate a video from youtube that I will use in my presentation. a. I have found a video.

Tuesday-Wednesday, April 27-28, 2010 1. Complete mentor meeting. a. I have completed my mentor meeting. 2. Redesign slide layout. a. I have redesigned the slide layout.

Monday-Tuesday, April 26-27, 2010 1. Organize another mentor meeting. a. I have organized a meeting for Tuesday morning. 2. Organize slide layout. a. I have organized the slide layout.

Friday-Monday, April 23-26, 2010 1. Complete six slides for my presentation. a. I have generated six slides. 2. Generate more pictures for my slides. a. I have generated pictures for each slide.

Thursday-Friday, April 22-23, 2010 1. Complete email to Mrs. Ward about emailing the faculty. a. I have emailed Mrs. Ward. 2. Organize slides for my presentation. a. I have organized the slides.

Wednesday-Thursday, April 21-22, 2010 1. Complete meeting with the group. a. I met with the group. 2. Complete the facebook page. a. I have completed the facebook page.

Tuesday-Wednesday, April 20-21, 2010 1. Complete script for a commercial. a. I have completed the script. 2. Determine when we will do homeroom visits. a. We will do homeroom visits during the week of May 10th.

Monday-Tuesday, April 19-20, 2010 1. a. 2. a.

Friday-Monday, April 16-19, 2010 1. Complete meeting with Mrs. Ward. a. I met with Mrs. Ward. 2. Determine when the meeting with the committee will be. a. I will hold a meeting with a few of the Student Council members on Thursday, April 22.

Thursday-Friday, April 15-16, 2010 1. Determine when my next mentor meeting will be. a. I will have a mentor meeting next Monday. 2. Diagram the layout for the facebook event to make people aware of the blood drive. a. I have designed the layout and I will publish it in a week.

Wednesday-Thursday, April 14-15, 2010 1. Complete meeting with Nancy Taylor. a. This morning I met with Nancy Taylor of the American Red Cross. 2. Generate ideas for gathering blood donors. a. I have a few ideas for gathering blood donors (facebook, homeroom visits, lunch time sign-ups).

Tuesday-Wednesday, April 13-14, 2010 1. Organize information for tomorrow's meeting. a. I have gathered information that relates to the Red Cross and blood drives. 2. Complete another meeting with Mrs. Ward to go over what we will discuss tomorrow. a. I have met with Mrs. Ward and discussed what we will go over with Nancy Taylor.

Monday-Tuesday, April 12-13, 2010 1. Complete mentor meeting with Mrs. Ward. a. I met with Mrs. Ward Monday morning. 2. a.

Friday-Monday, April 9-12, 2010 1. Type email to Mrs. Ward to tell her that I have contacted Nancy Taylor. a. I have gotten in touch with Mrs. Ward. 2. Complete embedding Voicethread to my wiki. a. I have embedded the Voicethread to my wiki.

Thursday-Friday, April 8-9, 2010 1. Determine when I will meet with my mentor. a. I will meet with Mrs. Ward at 7 am on Monday morning. 2. Generate phone call to Nancy Taylor of the American Red Cross. a. I have gotten in contact with Nancy Taylor.

Wednesday-Thursday, April 7-8, 2010 1. Determine what pictures we will use for our voicethread. a. We found all of the pictures that we will use for this project. 2. Complete the voicethread. a. We completed the voicethread in the library after school.

Tuesday-Wednesday, April 6-7, 2010 1. Determine what we will do for our project. a. We have decided to do a voicethread for this project. 2. Generate a script for the voicethread. a. We have completed the script for our voicethread.

Monday-Tuesday, April 5-6, 2010 1. Generate a background for GoAnimate. a. I made the background a picture of the oval office. 2. Generate characters for GoAnimate. a. There is no way to do this for free, so we will do something else.

Friday-Monday, March 26-29, 2010 1. Correct the one quote that is block formatted to normal formatting. a. I have changed that quote from being block formatted to regular. 2. Elaborate with more thesis support. a. I have elaborated upon my thesis with more support.

Thursday-Friday, March 25-26, 2010 1. Redesign the pagination format. a. I redesigned the pagination format, which was in a different font than Times New Roman. 2. Explain what the WFP does. a. I expanded upon what the WFP does.

Wednesday-Thursday, March 24-25, 2010 1. Complete correcting the pronouns used in the opening paragraphs. a. I have corrected all personal pronouns used in the paper. 2. Redesign the first page. a. I edited my paper and felt that it sounded better in its original format, so I kept it that way.

Tuesday-Wednesday, March 23-24, 2010 1. Complete reading Josh's peer review document. a. I have read Josh's peer review document. 2. Organize meeting with mentor to discus my paper. a. I have met with Mrs. Ward to discuss how things are going.

Monday-Tuesday, March 22-23, 2010 1. Complete reading Kellie's peer review document. a. I have read Kellie's peer review document. 2. Complete reading Phoebe's peer review document. a. I have read Phoebe's peer review document.

Friday-Monday, March 19-22, 2010 1. Complete the peer revision sheet for the second paper. a. I have completed this task. 2. Read and revise the third paper, then complete the peer sheet. a. I have completed this task.

Thursday-Friday, March 18-19, 2010 1. Revise the first paper and complete the worksheet for it. a. I have completed this task. 2. Complete reading and revising a second paper. a. I have completed this task.

Wednesday-Thursday, March 17-18, 2010 1. Generate turnitin.com submission. a. I have submitted my paper to turnitin.com. 2. Complete the reading of one paper. a. I have read one paper.

Tuesday-Wednesday, March 16-17, 2010 1. Complete Cover Page. a. I have completed the Cover Page. 2. Generate 2 copies of draft. a. I printed 3 copies of the draft.

Monday-Tuesday, March 15-16, 2010 1. Complete one more page of the draft. a. I have completed 8 pages of the draft. 2. Complete annotated bibliography. a. I have completed the annotated bibliography.

Friday-Monday, March 12-15, 2010 1. Complete first 7 pages of rough draft. a. I completed 7 pages. 2. Look through notes and determine what I will write about next. a. I determined what I will write about next.

Thursday-Friday, March 11-12, 2010 1. Complete 6 pages of rough draft. a. I completed 6 pages. 2. Look through notes and determine what I will write about next. a. I determined what I will write about next.

Wednesday-Thursday, March 10-11, 2010 1. Complete 4 pages of rough draft. a. I completed 4 pages. 2. Look through notes and determine what I will write about next. a. I determined what I will write about next.

Tuesday-Wednesday, March 9-10, 2010 1. Complete 2 pages of rough draft. a. I completed 2 pages. 2. Look through notes and determine what I will write about next. a. I determined what I will write about next.

Monday-Tuesday, March 8-9, 2010 1. Complete the following: Process Reflection: While I have been conducting my research: A. I acknowledge that I have one habit that has helped me be successful and one habit that I should change to be more successful: a. One habit that has helped me be successful with this class is my time management. I have been able to use the goals page effectively to help get work done on time. b. One habit that I should change to be more successful is procrastination. While this may seem like a contradiction, I get home from school and push my work off until later, and still manage to get it done on time. B. I have learned two skills or methods which have enabled me to support my claim/conclusion: a. I have learned to find quality research from sites on the library's Catalogs and Databases page. b. I have learned to take good notes from these sources and create an annotated bibliography as I find sources, so that I am not backed up in work. C. I understand that in order to be more successful with my progress in this course I have to… a. In order to be more successful with my progress in this course I have to stay focused. b. In order to be more successful with my progress in this course I have to start planning the blood drive.

Friday-Monday, March 5-8, 2010 1. Determine the layout of my paper. a. I planned what I would write about on a sheet of loose leaf. 2. Determine who my mentor will be. a. I have asked Mrs. Ward to be my mentor.

Thursday-Friday, March 4-5, 2010 1. Annotate all of the sources found this week. a. I have annotated all of the sources found this week. 2. Determine if there are books in the library that relate to my topic. a. I found two books today in the library that relate to my topic.

Wednesday-Thursday, March 3-4, 2010 1. Complete reading each of the sources found in class today. a. I read all of the articles that I found in class today. 2. Complete notes from each of the sources. a. I have completed taking notes from each of the sources found today.

Tuesday-Wednesday, March 2-3, 2010 1. Complete new "Home" page. a. I have completed my new "Home" page. 2. Redesign my wikispace so that my new topic (blood drive) is the main topic. a. I have redesigned my wikispace.

Monday-Tuesday, March 1-2, 2010 1. Generate brainstorming mindmap for new topic. a. I completed the mindmap. 2. Generate proposal for new topic. a. I completed the proposal.

Friday-Monday, February 26-March 1, 2010 1. Determine what I would be in charge of if I decide to do the blood drive as my project. a. If I choose to do the blood drive as my project, I will be responsible for the planning, recruiting, training, and scheduling of this event, as well as coordinating the actual event on the day of the blood drive. 2. Deduce what my topic might be if I choose to do the blood drive as my project. a. I have a few things in mind, but the major topic that I am thinking of is the importance of blood donors.

Thursday-Friday, February 25-26, 2010 1. Annotate sources. a. I completed annotating my sources. 2. Determine when the Blood Drive will be this year. a. I spoke with Mrs. Ward and found out that the Blood Drive will be in late May (possibly the 25th).

Wednesday-Thursday, February 24-25, 2010 1. Determine what major U.S. cities are in financial trouble, and find the cities' debt/revenue by year, so I can make a connection to the years in which salary caps were put in place in other leagues. a. I was unable to find any data about the debt or revenue of major cities in the U.S. so I will more than likely be removing this aspect from my thesis. 2. Contact Steel Russell about speaking to his father (John Russell, Manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates) a. I sent him a message via facebook Wednesday afternoon.

Tuesday-Wednesday, February 23-24, 2010 1. Organize a brainstorming mindmap for the layout of my paper. a. I am in the process of working on this mindmap. 2. Determine when I can watch the movie "Law Abiding Citizen". a. I have to work the next few nights, but hopefully Sunday night.

Monday-Tuesday, February 22-23, 2010 1. Categorize different subtopics that can serve as support for my paper. a. I thought of different things to write about that can help support my thesis. 2. Quantify the number of teams that are in financial trouble and may not be around in 10-15 years. a. I have a list of teams that may not be around in 10-15 years from http://www.forbes.com/lists/2009/33/baseball-values-09_The-Business-Of-Baseball_DOV.html

Friday-Monday, February 20-22, 2010 1. Check a book out of the library about Forensic Sciences. a. I found a book, and will check it out next time I am in the library. 2. Check a book out of the library about sports and salary caps. a. I was unable to find a book about salary caps in sports.

Thursday-Friday, February 19-20, 2010 1. Revise an email to send to the Phillies organization. a. Edited the email sent before, this time specifying that I would like to speak with anyone within the organization, instead of just David Montgomery. 2. Determine different types of Forensic investigation methods used to solve crimes. a. Found several different methods from the website, http://library.thinkquest.org/04oct/00206/index1.htm and used them to complete my mindmap.

Wednesday-Thursday, February 17-18, 2010 1. Complete mindmaps. a. Completed each mindmap. 2. Determine if Ali's neighbor is able to get me in touch with David Montgomery. a. Spoke with Ali in homeroom, and her neighbor is working on getting me his email address.