"Ah-ha" The Great Inquiry Based Activity

"Never be afraid to do something new.  Remember, amateurs built the ark, professionals built the Titanic."

~ Anonymous

I truly believe the quote I listed above is supporting many tasks we are learning to take on in order to become great teachers!  As I created a large portion of my IBA during last Monday's night class I was initially concerned when I first opened it on my laptop to continue work from home. . . My laptop appears to have a different screen size setting then the computer in the lab. . . Hummm then I start to wonder which setting our teacher would have on his computer when viewing our IBA's. . .  As my mind kept rambling on over which formatting size for the pictures I was using in the heading portion of two of my pages would appear in proper size proportions on my teachers computer. . .  I finally just had to give in to my pondering concerned mind to set it at ease.  I formatted the pictures to appear correct on my laptop and just hope that they look ok on the other computers that it can be viewed upon.  With this being said I think it is very important that teachers take into consideration of what the school computers or the most common computer settings that their students may have access to in order to design their IBA's or Webquests in formats that can be easily viewed without distracting features such as images that now are improperly spaced and between two lines instead of lining up together on one line even it is is going to show up centered to the left on some screen settings.

My father always told me that "great minds go in circles" and I think I can truly agree that great minds do go in circles.  Since I feel that my rambling mind has allowed me to focus on the best way to address formatting issues. . . Therefore a rambling mind is not rambling but just being a great mind by going in circles!