May's Prompt: Final MTP Report

Now that you have reached the end of your official Modest Tech Project cycle, please post a final version. Take this opportunity to attach or upload the documents you've used, student work produced in conjunction with the project, the lesson plan associated with it, readings/resources you'd recommend to others about it, and/or a reflection on the experience.

Please also send me a quick email once your ATI blog is complete. Once you've completed this last step, you can look forward to your final stipend installment (if it's completed by July 1, 2009, that is--sorry). If you've done your workshop but have not yet been paid for it, please let me know that, too. I want to make sure you get all the money you're due.

It's been a pleasure and an honor, ladies. I am grateful for this year with you. Tracy

Monthly MTP Progress Report Prompt

Perpetual Option One:
During the first full week of every month, please take a moment to reflect on your MTP progress this month by answering some of the following questions:

1. What has happened?
2. What has worked?
3. What hasn't worked?
4. What do you have now that you didn't have last month?
5. Have your timeline predictions been accurate?
   
6. Are you meeting your goals?
   
7. Do you need to vent? gloat?
8. How can others assist/support you?

Once you've posted your check-in to your blog, please go see what your ATIHomeys have posted to theirs. And remember: the sooner you post, the more responses you'll likely get.

Option Two for April:
Please post a draft agenda for a workshop you could present on your MTP--or, indeed, on any other tech application with which you have experience. What would you cover? Why? In what order? How much time should you devote to each item on your agenda? What resources/references would you provide? What kind of workshop might you offer?

Option Two for February:
Please find an article that addresses either technology in general or your MTP topic in specific, and talk about how you might use that article in a workshop about your MTP.

Option Two for January:
Please write a letter of welcome/introduction/preparation for ATI2009 participants. How might you help them make the most of the experience? About what do they need to be warned? For what surprises should/could you prepare them? If you had the whole thing to do over again, what would you do differently, and why? Alternately, you could write your letter to your RWP Tech Team--especially now as they/we are planning for ATI2009--letting them/us know what to keep, what to fix, what to dump entirely. We appreciate your contributions.

Option Two for December:
If you were suddenly granted an entire week of virtual vacation--freed from workplace and household chores, granted an unlimited budget, and positioned to approach the week fresh and rested and already non-virtually vacationed--where would you "go"? What would you explore? research? study? read? test drive? buy? Why?

Option Two for November:
Add some new sites/resources to your del.icio.us page. (For a reminder about how to use del.icio.us, view the video.) Either before or after you do, peruse your colleagues' sites, and suggest an addition to their collections.