This week, I finally borrowed the TI-Nspire from Dr. Shafer. I also borrowed a connection cord to connect the NSpire to a computer via a USB connection, and a CD that has some things about the NSpire on it. I continued to research various articles on the Nspire and its technology, while continuing to read the guidebook and completing some basic tutorials. I also received some articles and other material from fellow group members (I posted most of what I received onto my BSU_Shared iLocker account). We will be researching these and deciding more on what we're going to do for our first "lesson module" as a group in the next couple of days. All in all, this week was more experimenting with the TI-Nspire. I felt it was necessary for our group to work individually initially and then now we are ready to come together to discuss what we've found, what we like, and so forth. I can't wait to finally get started on our first lesson with the NSpire.
I would like to note that it seems difficult at this stage to progress on the NSpire as a group as well as completing the other tasks that we must do for our class. I can't help but feel that attention is being diverted from our work on the NSpire to complete other activities just so we can "get our grade." Hopefully this mentality or the course load will change as we progress further into the semester and we actually begin rigorous work on the NSpire.
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I see from the activity in your ilocker account that you and your group have located a lot of activities and articles for the NSPIRE. From your posting, I see that you are continuing to learn about this technology. Note that we will be taking "breaks" to do a variety of things, and for those weeks, you can pause the NSPIRE research to complete tasks that I feel are worthwhile.
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