| Several of the typical challenges facing those who are attempting to implement blended solutions. Some of the common mistakes designers make: assuming that it will take less time to redesign an existing program than it would to design a blended program from scratch, putting too much emphasis on the components of a training situation, and assuming that traditional facilitators are the best choices for managing a blended version of the training. An emphasis is placed on the importance of training the design team as well as the trainers. In addition, she outlines an example of a blended train-the-trainer course. A vision for the next generation of blended learning. The impact that personal and mobile devices are likely to have on emerging models of blended learning. Current models of interaction. Ways that interaction can be used to focus on performance outcomes. Five of us go out to the field every day, while two stay behind at the dig house. They help out with washing and cataloging finds from the previous day work or assist in processing soil samples and preparing the other finds from the tumulus excavation for publication, a unique opportunity offered by this project. While most field schools only take on students during the data collection phase of the excavation, in Albania we are offering students a chance to see what goes on after the digging is over in addition to the field experience of conducting an intensive survey. We leave the dig house at 6 a.m., just as the sun peeks out over the horizon and it is still relatively cool. The project area is about an hour drive from the dig house, so we settle in to our nine-passenger mini-bus - named Skanderbeg after the Albanian national hero - and sleep or chat during the trip. Once we arrive, we begin surveying the agricultural fields, searching for any artifacts that appear on the surface. We use a mobile differential GPS unit loaned to us by the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology to collect detailed and precise information on the size, shape, and location of the survey tracts, as well as any sites or important features that we find. The antenna for the unit looks sort of like a small space ship on a pole attached to a back pack, so whoever wears it each day tends to get a lot of strange looks from the people we meet or cars driving by on the main road through the valley. |







