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It's Been A Long Time

Now I really have to apologize for the lengthy delay in updating and contributing to my blog.  It's been SEVEN years since I made an entry.  So much has happened in these seven years--lots of good and some bad, heartbreaking bad--and I will share.  Soon.  I promise.  Life is good, though, and I can not complain.

Here's a link to my Facebook page if you'd like to take a peek and some of the things I've been following.  www.facebook.com/joann.jones.507


Here are a few photographs that I'd like to post, too, on various subjects.  Enjoy.

It's Been A While

Hello and Happy New Year,

It's been a while so I thought I'd say hello and catch up a bit.

I've been very busy. Working and living. I'm not in school this Spring and I really miss the challenge of it. I have a few odds and ends that I must clear up so that I will be more comfortable taking graduate classes again. Don't worry, I'll be back.

Expect to hear more from me in the future.

~Baruch Bashan - The Blessings Already Are

This is a test to see if my blog will open on my web page.

It's Done

I have just submitted my last assignment in my instructional tech class and boy am I tired! Whew! I made it! I ended the class just as I began it; with challenges. As I grappled with the makings of my first web page, I realized that I was running out of time. This thing I truly wanted to accomplish. I wanted to create a viewable web page. Amy provided good instructions on correcting some of the glitches that I was continually running into in making my web page a reality. She suggested and I complied, that I cut back on the number of pages for the web page. I really think this made a big difference. I only hope that we can all see my web page as a true web page in the very near future. There's a lot more involved in web design than I ever imagined, that's for sure. I like it. I love that sense of accomplishment I receive after I complete a project. Even if it's not perfect it still shows that I put out a very good effort. Just like this class, overall. I think we all displayed a very good effort. The proof is in the products we produced and I am very proud of what I learned and displayed in my work. Have a great holiday. Baruch Bashan - The Blessings Already Are.

One More Thing to Do...

This may be my last entry on this blog. I've reached the end of my first class in Instructional Technology. And I'm proud of myself. I really am. I paid the bill, I learned a lot and I think I made a pretty decent showing. There's just one thing left to do. My web page. I'm almost finished and will add links to all of my semester projects in it. Still a bit of a challenge there to get it to look the way I want it to. But I'm determined. At our last class session for the semester, I learned about more technologies that are available to challenge and enhance the learning experience. Classmate Kate gave a great presentation on flickr. I was impressed with the tool and went home that night and signed up. I even uploaded a picture. I will definitely look into utilizing this tool for future projects. I asked her questions about animations and she was every helpful with that. So much so that I enhanced some of my previous projects, lesson conversion and web quest, with animations. It was great to attend a class with so knowledgeable and helpful an individual as Kate. I wish her and all of my fellow classmates much success and happiness in their educational pursuits and lives in general. Oh, I can't forget about Ed's presentation. Ed showed us his web page and it was very impressive. He's very intelligent and did a lot of cool things like a pod cast and a You Tube video. I was really impressed and with his skill and I would love to add some audio to my web page. I'll try but I don't have a lot of time left as Tuesday is our final day to submit all of our work. Maybe next time. I may write another blog entry--it's neat--again but I've got to complete my web page. Take a look at what I've done thus far.

Time to Cash in My IT Chips...

Today will be our last day of class and I am somewhat relieved and at the same time, wishing I had just another week or two to hone my technological, albeit, brand new, technological skills. But life goes on and semesters end. I was hoping to submit my final projects, a web quest and web page today, but I still have to do some work on both of them. I'll need a few more days. It's almost three o'clock in the morning and I am working on these projects in between sleeping and surfing the net. I guess I'm a little distracted and have been for quite sometime. . .Still in all, I've learned a lot this semester and am still intrigued with all of the different technologies and medias available. Tonight, Amy will incorporate all that we've learned to the corporate learning structure and I am looking forward to that. The more I can connect Instructional Technology to business/corporate/governmental (me) settings, the better. Everybody has to learn. Oh well, time to get back to the drawing board. Here's some interesting reading on webquests. Hey, it's a whole new world to me!