After much contemplation and feedback from Prof. Heil, I dumped my first two 20Time Project ideas and selected another.
Here is my brainstorm for Idea #3 (Rejuvenate my garden responsibly during a drought.) 1. What exactly is gray water? 2. How can I collect gray water and use it in my garden? 3. Will I compost for this project? 4. How labor intensive is composting? 5. Do I need special soil? 6. Will I need to fertilize? 7. Do I need to buy worms? 8. What will the cost be for supplies and equipment? 9. Do I need to buy or build containers? 10. What resources will I use - twitter, websites, books, people? 11. Is there a possibility of failure?
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I read what others are thinking of doing. I've jumped from home improvement, to fitness, to technology related. There are my ideas: Idea #1 Help Hubby set up a Weebly site My husband, Rafael Deon Davis, is a Professor of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. He teaches at two locations. He has a couple sponsors and an impending government contract to train the US Special Forces. Pretty cool, huh? The problem is he is not heavily into technology. He has talked about setting up a website, but has neither the time or patience to do it. Questions: 1. How much time would this take to set up? 2. Once it is set up, will my husband maintain it himself ? 3. Will we pay the additional money to have the extra features or use the free one? 4. I'm already sleep deprived, will this cause me to lose more sleep? 5. Will doing this project bring us closer together or cause friction? 6. Does he have final say over what goes on it or do I? 7. Can I teach him to set it up himself? 8. Should I take the extra time to teach him? 9. Do students featured on the website need to sign some kind of release form? 10. If so, do all the training contract agreements need to be modified? Idea #2 Set up a Website for our ESL Instructors Grossmont Adult School, where I teach, has a website. Some individual teachers have websites. But, we as the ESL Department do not have one. If we did, we could: post our calendar in one place, share our PLC materials/lesson plans/documents, have links to other Professional Development sources, and it would be ALL IN ONE PLACE. I am a fan of Google Drive, but sometimes it is really hard to find something in there. Questions: 1. How much time will this take to set up? 2. What internal tech resource people are available to me? 3. After it is set up, will I be the one to maintain it? 4. If others have access to it, will it become flooded like my Google Drive? 5. Do we need to set up "guidelines" as to what is permitted to be added? 6. Would this be a Weebly or would it be a part of the existing Adult School website? 7. Which teachers could participate in this project with me? 8. Are there outside sources I should consider? 9. Should I ask our administrator for her input or will this be mostly teacher driven? 10. Can I incorporate animation? Comments Sheila( [email protected] ) 6/16/2015 Can you do both? They both sound so beneficial. I guess I pick the hubbies website since I am now fascinated with his story and want to see pictures. How do you become a Professor of Jiu-Jitzu? Jacob Dominguez( [email protected] ) 6/16/2015 I would say since you already know how to set up a weebly and this is your own individual project for yourself. I would go with the second one. I still think the first one is a great idea but just looking at your weebly you seem to already know how to do it and I think you would finish to quickly to really get the 5 weeks you need out of the project I just find the second one can benefit the community as a whole and help you in the long run. Jaime Gonzalezlink( [email protected] ) 6/16/2015 I would definitely go with #2 just because it will directly affect your school and could be a nice team building project as well. You can involve and get everyone on the teams input. #1 is great but I think you can finish that in a few hours. Kelly Urena( [email protected] ) 6/24/2015 Sheila, way to go with technology!!! I agree with the others that I think the second project would have a greater global influence. Think of all of the teachers, and students that will benefit from having information in a central location. Good luck with which ever one you decide! 2 Comments
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