EDLD 5370 Week 4 Web Conference

In this fourth web conference for EDLD 5370, Dr. Mason provided various reminders and pieces of advice.

She provided a reminder for last web conference, to be held next Wednesday at 9 p.m. Also, Dr. Mason made reference to the internship plan that students are to have completed in an earlier class. Students were reminded that if they don't have the plan completed, it must be done as part of the internship course.

The field-based internship summary is also to be completed by the end of the internship course. Dr. Mason said to download a completed field-based internship summary to wiki/google docs/site. The template for the summary and validation report is located in Appendix G of the Version 3.3 handbook version 3.3.

She also provided some brief instructions for submitting the final exam in week five. Also discussed was the need for cohort group 7 to complete all possbile sections of the internship course assignments prior to taking the last class, which is being offered out of order after the internship course.

EDLD 5370 Week 3 Web Conference

Always helpful, tonight's web conference was particularly so. As we enter week three, my classmates and I have the first week of reflection assignments under our belts, and most of us are wating to hear how we did on week two. In tonight's web conference, Dr. Mason spoke about proper formatting of citations and the need to alphabetize references instead of putting them in the order as they appear in the document. The citation formatting I had fixed after week one, however the alphabetization I have been doing incorrectly throughout my entire time in the course.

Also helpful during this conference was the reminder that week 5 is shorter than normal due to the university closing for Christmas vacation, and that all Cohort 7 students who will be taking an incomplete grade need to have all work possible complete by the end of the course. Dr. Mason said that after the remaining internship activities are complete following the final course beginning in January.

Week-2 Web Conference - EDLD 5370

This evening's web conference was very helpful as well. When I logged-on, Dr. Diane Mason was already talking with my fellow students regarding proper APA formatting. I purchased the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association today. A very thick book with a lot of guidelines for properly formatting a publication. The questions Dr. Mason was answering, along with the typed chat running concurrently was extremely helpful in ensuring our in-text citations were formatted correctly as well as our references at the end of scholarly writing.

Also helpful was the conversation regarding ensuring our journals are up-to-date with all assignments in accordance with the internship handbook. I was particularly interested in a series of emails I had received several months ago regarding the requirement to purchase a software in order to take the remainder of my classes. Dr. Mason as well as my classmates let me know that our program manager said we didn't need to purchase the TK20 software.