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Dr. Kay Abernathy reiterated the necessity to learn to collaborate and work together in teams. She shared that the Ed Tech Leadership faculty is here to support the students; they care about us, and have experience in the classroom setting, K-12, and are able to help us, encourage us, and answer our questions. She shared her personal phone number, (409) 782-0100, her email address, kabernathy@gmail.com, and encouraged the students to get in touch at any time of day.

Dr. Abernathy said the Ed Tech program is not going away and is very strong. This gave me some sense of encouragement because the merging of this program with the principal program has caused some of us anxiety and uncertainty. She encouraged us not to be frustrated or overwhelmed.

Regarding this class: We will not get a grade in Week 4. We have two weeks to do our final project and make everything work together with our team, so we will receive a grade on Weeks 4 and 5 combined. We are asked in Week 5 to submit our Blog link, and it should have three Web conferences on it, my reflections of Week 1, Week 2, and Week 5. She mentioned DropBox.com as a viable means to move our video files around. In our first week we will do my personal digital story. In our second week we will do a podcast of an open source video editing software. The third week is pre-production, what we do to get ready to produce our video. Weeks 4 and 5 we produce our video and turn it in during Week 5.

To the question, "How do we document our collaboration with our partners?" the answer is, "Google docs." One of us creates a Google doc and uses a certain color font, shares it with me, and then I'll share with them my color. We begin discussing what we are thinking about regarding our story. We need a partner in Weeks 1 and 2 and a team in Weeks 3, 4, and 5. I need to post my work and every other team members' work. Whoever writes the Story Board shares it in Google docs. Everybody hosts every other team members' work. We learn to collaborate online. Creative commons in Weeks 3, 4, and 5.