Blog #6

My partner and I were very much on the ball with this assignment.

We began our journey at a nice sized elemenatry school in sherwood park to drop our power point onto the key of one of their grade 4 teachers. After giving her our package of research information and running her through the program, she seemed really impressed with the work and promised to run it with her class. As a first indication of how teachers will react to our work, it was a very positive experience for us.

Next, we took the peaceful hour long drive to Thorsby and set up shop in the computer lab...where we met our first glitch. Apparently, the teacher working with us was not very computer literate and explained to us that there was NO WAY to share pieces of information with all of the students. Also, we didn't have a portal to plug in our key. Very discouraging, because we had planned to do with work at individual students, working in partners.

No worries though, we thought quickly and ended up being able to find a portal via an extention piece of hardware used for photoimages. We downloaded the poewr point and then placed it in the teacher's personal file...then, we were able to open it in his classroom and we did the project together with the class. This worked well, because we could talk them through it, and we could also choose all ten locations.

The lack of linking to both Dorothy and Cereal, simply meant that we kept them until the end and we just dealt with swithching the screens during those places.

In the end, the teachers were impressed, and the students were engaged. We did find out that it's totally possible to place the work into the correct folders, but we found that out later - and through a different teacher. But all went smoothly, as smoothly as possible, and the overall day was positive.

I did speak a little too much during the presentation, and I need to be sure to work through who will say what if we ever present again, so as to leave a bit of room for my associate. Sorry dear.

Anyway, good opportunity. I'm pleased.