Week of March 24

As the semester wears on, we are now into our final few projects. Jena and I are working away on our powerpoint that is on the 5 senses and observation. I personally really like creating links and different options kids can click on to explore the powerpoint. I remember doing something similar to this in middle school and it really gives students an out for expressing themselves. I think our powerpoint is going to turn out well, and could maybe even be used in one of our classrooms one day.
Also, we have created our script for our PSA and are ready to record it on Thursday. We are doing a psa about not using drugs. we are comparing 3 people who have found success because they have avoided drugs, and one who has nothing because of his use of drugs. I'm looking forward to editing out psa and making it a great commercial.

Week of March 17

This week at Pine Island went much more smoothly than last week. The student i worked with, Aaron was very excited to use this program. It seemed that most of the kids in the class were really excited to explore with photo story. I was very impressed with Aaron's story about what his life would be like if he was a dog. It seemed that he was very confident when it came to navigating around the internet. He knew how to find pictures on the web, and how to save them. I think he really liked hearing his own voice on the head phones once he had recorded. I think it was a really good experience for us to see how this program can be used with a different group of kids.

This week in ed 205 we did a webquest on webquests. I found out that each webquest can cater to different learning styles for individual students. I also saw that these webquests can be very helpful and useful in the classroom. These sites force kids to put themselves into someone else's shoes to explore and learn about something. On thursday, we went to Pine Island again to help the students create a photo story. Getting images went pretty smoothly, but when it came to recording sound, the child became easily frustrated and distracted. However, i feel it was worth it when she could hear her own voice talking. I think it was a positive experience.