I have noticed on several blogs listings of goals to accomplish in 1001 days. I thought that was a neat idea to do since what I am tackling with the Virtual Homeschool Group is adding several new balls to my juggling. Any tool to organize makes juggling go so much better. Since I am not doing the VHSG alone but am coordinating with others, it also keeps everyone else updated. However, I discovered that I really needed to adjust the idea a bit into monthly bitefuls organized by project since so much of the whole project requires step built upon completed step. So here is my version of "30 Things in 30 Days" or maybe it will be more like "300 Things in 30 Days". LOL And yes, I don't have 30 days for April since half of the month is gone. But then, I am listing a few things that I have already completed this month. Now, if I can just figure out how to do the html for a strike through to show that they have been done. For now I am just adding a red 'DONE'.

30 Things in 30 Days - Goals for April:

VHSG Goals - As of April 17, 2006 I have 9 weeks to set up the 9-week summer beta courses.

1. Summer Beta Tests of the new courses -
   1. DONE Announce them and ask for volunteers
   2. DONE As families volunteer set up Outlook with folders and contact information so it will be easy to keep everyone updated.
   3. DONE Send out welcome e-mail to volunteers as they come in. Include:
      1. DONE Welcome and thanks
      2. DONE Mention that they will need to install the web conferencing java program
      3. DONE How they can 'drop in' during open office hours to the classroom when my Yahoo ID has the virtual classroom link beside it
   4. Pre-course E-mails - What they will need for the courses - microphone for all, some software recommendations for the e-notebooking course.
   5. DONE Verify that everyone can get their e-mails when sent as a whole group and not lose them to an overly-aggressive  spam filter.
   6. 'Open House' presentation for volunteers and the curious
      1. DONE (04/20) Decide the content
      2. DONE (04/20)Create the slides
      3. Set date and create the announcement
2. DONE Check with Sarah Bean to see if she will continue her Virtual Homeschool Group Moodle site for another year and get approval on my idea to blend her VHSG Moodle site with my VHSG co-op/web conferencing idea.
3. DONE Set up the Moodle components of the Live E-Notebooking, K to 3rd Grade Math Meeting, and VHSG Algebra
   1. DONE Open up the new courses and set them up as topic or 9-week layout.
   2. DONE Create links in my blog sidebar for the new courses' Moodle addresses.
4. Live E-Notebooking Course -
   1. Make organizational decisions and incorporate the decisions into the Moodle design:
      1. DONE (04/19) How many days per week?
      2. What will be covered each week?
      3. DONE (04/19) How will the live online components blend with the assynchronous Moddle elements?
5. K to 3rd Math Meeting - This beta has already up and running for three weeks as far as the live course component goes. So my focus is to keep developing the classroom material and to begin the Moodle elements of it.
   1. Make organizational desisions and incorporate the decisions into the Moodle design:
      1. DONE (04/16) Set up Moodle topic boxes and the folders for the files needed to match the folder organization on my hard drive
      2. Upload files that are already completed
   2. Slides for the live presentation portion
      1. DONE (04/20) Fix the counting by 25 slide
      2. DONE (04/20) Add in some new math games
6. VHSG Algebra Course -
   1. Make organizational decisions and incorporate the decisions into the Moodle design:
      1. DONE Make the decisions on how the course will be organized
      2. DONE Set up the Moodle boxes and folders on both my hard drive and in Moodle so that they match.
   2. Slides for the live classroom component of the class
      1. DONE Set up the basic slide template for the live portion of the course
      2. Complete week 1 slides
      3. Complete week 2 slides

FAITH Homeschool Group End of Year Presentation Goals - As of April 15th, I have approximately 3 weeks to prepare:

1. DONE Complete and mail participant form
2. Graduate's Slideshow:
   1. DONE (04/19) Get pictures & life verse from the moms of the other two graduating homeschoolers
   2. DONE (04/28) Meet w/Gregory to select pictures for his part of the graduation slideshow
   3. Crop and clean up any pictures that have been cleared for it
   4. Graduation song to accompany slideshow.
      1. DONE (04/15) Select song
      2. Edit for time if needed
   5. Create the Slideshow itself.
   6. Meet online in my Elluminate room, in person, or e-mail slideshow to get other mom's approval
   7. Adjust slideshow if needed and once again meet for approval
   8. Burn slideshow to disks
3. Kids' Presentations
   1. Kids make desisions on what they will present at the end of year presentation
   2. Kids create/practice their presentation

ARVS Elluminate Game Day (I will be helping with the live online games)- Game Day will be April 28 so I have less than two weeks as of April 15th

1. DONE (04/23)  Find/create several more games
2. DONE (04/26) Test the games with the kids or other online volunteers
3. DONE (04/26) Modify games if needed. Retest game(s)
4. DONE (04/27) Forward the tested games to Lita Bledsoe
5. DONE (04/27) Facilitate Game Day on April 28th
6. DONE (04/27) Note any improvements or tips that can be made on games after the event ends. File as a notepad document with the games on my hard-drive for later tweaking.