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Internship Web Conference -
I participated in two web conferences during the first week of the Internship course. The first session was set up by Dr. Abernathy to answer basic questions about the course and general expectations. This session was held on May 19th, 2011. Dr. Abernathy patiently responded to the questions of the students about to begin their Internship course and explained the basic requirements. This conference allowed me to get an idea of what would be expected and how the course would be set up. It was reassuring to learn that we would not be required to create discussion board posts for this course and reflect on other posts, but could use the board as a place to post questions about the assignments and get clarification. The second web conference I participated in during the week was much more helpful to me. By that point I had begun to work on the assignments and had come across questions about the formatting of my cover page for the comprehensive exam and some of the content that would be required. After asking Dr. Abernathy my questions and reading her responses, I felt much more empowered to continue with my writing and feel confident I was on the right track. She clarified that it was acceptable to use first person in a reflection and promised to look into a question I had about the formatting of the cover page.
 * Week 1**

During Week 2 of the Internship I again participated in a web conference. I did not use the audio or camera features as those were not available on the computer I had at the time. I did however participate in chat. A large portion of the conference was dedicated to clarifying the instructions in the assignment rubric regarding the addition to the comprehensive exam for the week. Dr. Abernathy clarified the requirements and several of the students online asked clarifying questions and offered suggestions to help in everyone understanding what was required. The web conferences are a good opportunity to ask questions, listen to what others are working on and get insights as to what others are thinking about the assignments and their personal progress. It has fostered a sense of community among the students. Most students were completing their school year during this week and were feeling stressed at the requirements from the combination of completing the Lamar program as well as all that was required of them to complete their school year. Many of the questions revolved around the timing of getting scores on assignments as most students had not yet received their grades from week 1 and were not sure how to proceed without them. Dr. Abernathy assured us that she would keep an eye on the grading timeline and help us in any way she could. The web conference ended with all the participants appearing to feel more confident about their progress toward completing the Internship.
 * Week 2**

Week 3
The week 3 web conference focused on some specific grading expectations and suggestions from Dr. Abernathy. She explained the grading procedure for the course comprehensive exam. It was very helpful to listen to the expectations and to understand that all of the grades are simply formative to give us an opportunity to correct anything that needs to be fixed before our final grading is done at the end of the course. She also clarified that we need to be discussing the ISTE Technology Facilitation Standards in words and not just referring to them by a number. This is to help us become even more familiar with them and make our writing about them more fluent. I believe I will need to go back and make some corrections along those lines to my reflections, but at least I'm beginning to understand the overall picture for each of the reflections. The conference was about 40 minutes long, but there were not a lot of questions. Many of the participants are using a portion of the time to encourage each other.

Week 4
The week 4 web conference on Sunday, June 12th was brief. Students asked questions on grading and technical aspects of their papers. The one item mentioned that I had been unaware of was that the 6th edition of the APA guide has gone back to including two spaces between each sentence instead of one. Dr. Abernathy indicated that it would not be considered grounds for taking points off during this session, but that it was something we should be aware of for future reference. There was some discussion of graduation and how close we are to completing the program. We discussed the creation of our individual CV documents as well. Most of the conference involved Dr. Abernathy encouraging the students to keep on going and telling us we were doing a good job. She reminded us that they have high expectations for us as we should have for our own students. It was a positive experience. I also listened in after the web conference on Saturday, June 18th. During this conference Dr. Abernathy explained about the TK20 assignment postings and reassured everyone that we would be allowed time to finish our reflections if we needed an extra day or so. She also clarified for us the intent behind the performance standard reflections. She discussed combining similar or related activities into one reflection that referenced each of the included standards as the preferred method. These will be important considerations as I move forward to complete my field based activity reflections in the coming week.