Memorial Memories

Today, I shared precious time with my Dad (on left) at Memorial service in our town. Despite the heat, my Dad enjoyed, reflected and shared stories with another World War II veteran (on right) who fought his fierest battled on D-Day - June 6, 1944. Wow!! I'm in awe!!

XML document?

Does anyone know how to open this type of document? Last night I tried to open a document from our school's Microsoft Outlook and was unsuccessful. (This is a school document I placed on Microsoft Outlook hoping to finish at home) When I double-clicked the document it asked me to "open it" or "save" it. I saved it first to my documents and then went from there. When I opened it, the information was in 4 small folders "-rels," "docProps," "word" and (content types)- the type was XML document. I google it, and it said to try opening it up in FIREFOX browser, which didn't work. In addition, the information about the file read that it was a compressed zipped drive. In any event, I wasn't able to open the document and still after much research - I don't have a clear understanding of why it was a compressed zip file much less how to open one.

Comcast Craziness

I installed a digital transport adaptor, which came in an esay-to-read self installation kit. Finally after working through the kinks of my do-it-yourself 8 step procedure, i called the "self-help" desk to troubleshoot why the channel "up/down" didn't appear to work. The volume and power button did futher complicating why the channel up/down didn't. Sometimes the most obvious things are right in front of you, but you fail to see it!! Seems like I didn't have the digital box positioned to pick up the signal from the remote!!! Doesn't look to good for me and technology!!! Ha! Ha!

Pop Culture

Today Ryan organized an after school meeting, which our entire cohort met to review and finalize the pop-culture project ideas. Lots was discussed, meetings planned, and information shared! Glad to part of this group!!

presenting

Well, we got through our Instructional Media presentation despite changing our tool midstream and adapting to something new. "Mind 42," was the tool I chose. John and Frank seemed open to the idea. I found it by doing a search of a substitute to Mindmeister. It seemed fairly easy to manage - with a few glitches to overcome. I especially like the collapsable feature, which I discovered the day of the presentation - ensured a concise few of the main headings. As far as the presentation tools, I liked the X-Time Line the best!