Yes, I'm wondering what I should be doing also. Has anyone heard from John?

I was wondering if it would be a good idea for us to assign decision point numbers in the outlines of our scenarios. If we number each scenario 1,2,3, etc. when the maze is made the person making it just needs to add an offset number to each decision point. Alternatively, each scenario could be given a starting decision point number to use.

Hi, All!

In response to a few of the posts....

The scenarios can feed from one to the next..... as John has shown so far, this is the basic outline for the first scenario. Once that one is complete, you create a fake/transfer decision point that usually has a comment of some sort.... then it can feed to the next scenario. So all three scenarios go into the same maze. It is also possible for each choice to feed back to the question and only the correct answer to feed to the "transfer" decision point.

I really like the basics - do we want to jazz it up w/a different font/background/etc???? That's probably a bit down the road.

Alll flow charts are going to be entered into Quandary anyway, so it doesn't matter what format it's sent in.... it's just a visual - a scanned picture of a napkin works just as well :-).

I think the more "fun" and silly it is, the better - people like being entertained while they learn, eh?

Why don't we number the scenarios, then just give me/John the flow charts and we can put them in Q.... if we don't hear from John by Thursday's conference call, I can jump in and begin creating the maze..... If he's having a family emergency, he should take care of that first.... he's already put a lot into this getting us all moving :-).

Laura

Also - IDK where to find the old session info - can it be posted here? I think it was on the vista site, but if you have it handy, would you mind reposting? Sorry!

The cover story states that communication needs to improve with eachother, parents, students, and the community. The objectives deal with communication to parents only. Do we want to have the scenario to fit the four objectives, or are we planning on having more objectives for each of the four areas of communication? This is where I have gotten a little lost in trying to follow what is happening.

It seems that our 4 objectives will be a big enough job to do in a short amount of time. I think we should modify the cover story to match the teacher/parent communication.

I can work on it this weekend.... send it on :-). John - take care of yourself and your family.

Hi, All -

I've added the file so far.... I "deformalized" it a bit.... please review it and see what you think. Check out "Disruptive Dan" and see how it looks.... I can go back to the original version, but thought this flowed nicely in the maze. Can we add some FERPA info, etc. to the scenario summary screen??? Please advise - I can work on this some more tomorrow evening.... I know I've taken a few liberties w/screen color, font, etc... and will change as we wish.... but we also have to get our own websites done, so lots to do :-)!

Laura looks like you have a great start on the maze. Thanks for doing this work. You can take those liberties when you have volunteered to do the work. Don't worry about that.

Laura, I think you did a really nice job - I like the colors! Let me know if you need help making sense of the volunteer scenario - if you want to trim one of the branches it might be less of a beast to enter! If you run into time issues I can help.

Hi, All -

Ok, so the two responses received encourage me to continue :-). I have four scenarios, five if we include the report card. I will set them all to the maze as it looks so far.... easy things to change are fonts, colors, etc. I'm not going to add pictures, etc. as it takes a lot more time and the files need to be linked, etc. I think the maze will be fine w/o, but if someone wants to add after I get the maze in, great! I'm going to finish up the website assignment tonight, and work on this more tomorrow.... I find myself working on this instead, as I think making the mazes is really fun... I went with the PD/team approach, as I could see this really being something done in a school.... I think for assets we might just switch back to points or something, that way at the team meeting they could talk about how many points were earned - I really liked the sillier approach, but with the framework established, think it might be more fitting to go back to something more realistic... not sure yet - will think on that later!

Also, I have added - as noted in the wiki - a "summary" screen where we can educate... so I think tha's covered.

lb

Wow, Laura! Thanks for all your hard work!

Wow, great - thanks Laura. Anything else that I can do in these last few days??

Laura, thanks for your work. I have been playing with Quandary working on my website - so I know this is considerable work and I didn't add any token system. I agree that we don't need the graphics, ok to leave those out. If you need anything, please let me know.

Laura, thanks for all your work! Make sure to let us know if you need help with anything.

John - we are trying to get your attention - we are online and want to collaborate..

Wednesday night group got things pretty well finalized, just waiting on the fabulous maze from Laura! John is finishing some text on the "experience"....:)

We are asking for everyone to review after Laura posts the maze. Then post a comment here on the wiki with your go/no go....last chance folks, due Friday.

Super job on this, guys! I'll be watching for the maze. Please let me know if I can edit or something. I am so sorry that I couldn't make the meeting - my daughter's softball team made the play-offs tonight...

Hi, All -

I'm uploading the maze as of now.... as you see, it still needs wrap up screen text - if anyone wants to write it, I'll gladly import it into the maze on my laptop.... also, I took out the assets. They're fun, but I don't think really NEED to be in the maze... and they take some time to add in and calculate accurately. If someone else wants to add them, great! :-) I'm happy to make the edits from here, but if someone wants to take it from here and finish it up, that'd be great, too!!!! The more the merrier. I can spend another hour on it tomorrow morning, but if someone else has more time - run with it. Thanks! :-)

Hi Laura,
Nice job! I do not see the Quandry file itself - can you upload that too? All I can find is the htm file.
Thanks!

Figures... I uploaded the wrong file and am work... I will resend it when I get home. Sorry.

Laura, it looks great. Good job! Where was the "wrap up" screen that you mentioned - for the Suzie scenario?

I should be back home by between 4 and 5. Will resend it then. thank you for letting me know....

Thanks - I will probably not be home at that time, but I will take a look when I get home. I can see some tweaks to make in the volunteer scenario, I can add them and reupload for everyone to continue working. I will post a note when I grab the maze so we do not have multiple people making changes at the same time.

Laura, I just looked again....the first time I went through the maze I missed the mention of pleasebringit in the later decision point. I think the volunteer scenario is fine as is.

Thanks! I ran home at lunch - the file is uploaded. I didn't change the link yet.... will do. Thanks for catching it. My eyes are crossing and I know I'm missing things at this point. :-)

Oops - it's in DP34... I added www. before it - hopefully it'll hyperlink in the file. If not, I think I remember how to make that happen.

It opened - no worries!

I'm sorry you ran home at lunch - you have worked so hard on this! Please look at the bottom of the wiki page whenever you get a chance.

Good morning, all!

Sorry I couldn't make the call last night. My one son is at camp and it was the other's "special evening with Mom and Dad" since we're picking the older boy up tonight. I added to the maze based on what was noted here.... I'm sorry - I didn't add another link to the Annie scenario - but I did add the other stuff.... I adjusted the Sue wrap up as it mentioned "there may be underlying issues," but that seemed a bit confusing as the previous screen noted that the reason she'd been acting up was due to the death of the gmother - which seemed to be the underlying cause of her behavior. It's hard to spell behavior correctly - earlier this year I wrote Canadian Law lessons and so have gotten used to spelling it "behaviour." :-) - Ok, back on the subject!

Please review and let me know if you see any other changes. I think at this point we're pretty good and likely don't need to make major edits... but I might have a typo or two. Should we plan to submit around noon?

How do we submit?????? :-)

Laura

Hi again!

Look at the two docs - Training Maze...at 7am. I inadvertently added a version that is not the most up to date before it, and can't seem to delete it from the site. Sorry -

lb

Laura and all,
I made a few minor changes to decision points 6, 22, and 36 and uploaded a new version. It is linked under Go to the maze, but we might need to change this link after others review and edit. At some point do we want to get rid of our 'working' text at the bottom of the page?

Thanks again to Laura for all of her hard work!!

If everyone can look at the maze that Carolyn linked to "Go to the Maze" and give their thumbs up, it can be submitted (by noon).

I can remove all of the notes at the bottom before noon.

Looks good to me! Carolyn, Paula, who wants to submit? Feel free from my end! Thanks - this has been fun and I hope to "see" all of you in future classes - it seems I might be a bit behind everyone else, as I'm just getting started.

I'll e-mail Dr. Ingram. I just removed all of the notes...

Woo hoo! Thanks! This was fun!

Thanks for all of your hard work, Laura!

Thanks for all your work everyone! Especially John & Laura. This was a fun and interesting collaboration.

Looks great everyone!

looks great. nice working with all of you.