Final Week

This week I have finally met with my student and parent! We have had to work fast, but we are making progress.We have to finish the project with in just a few days, but hopefully everything goes right. I have been in contact with his mother and we have discussed many aspects of the project and what needs to be done.

I am being assissted by Alysha Lomba. Alysha and I went to my students house to help him start up a blog, complete a KWL chart, and get started on a voice thread. Here is a link to his blog on volcanos. He has done a great job on his first blog post describing his project. It was so nice to see how eager he was to create a voice thread. He was fascinated with the idea of making a movie and show it to his classmates. We had a bit of trouble recording, so we had to stop, but he continued to work on it with his parent. Over the weekend my student has been able to create a voice thread of many slides. He has added audio to his first slide, which sounds great. Here is a link to his unfinished storyboard. He still has to add to it, but he has it filled out for the first slide. My student did a great job so far on his voice thread and I am sure he'll continue and use voice thread for other upcoming projects.

This experience has really taught a lot about teaching technology to children. Technology is a tool that requires a lot of hands on learning. At first I could tell my student didn't understand what I was talking about and seemed to not get into the conversation, but as soon as we started working on it he became totally engaged with it. He took over the lap top and was really excited about voice thread. He showed all of his books to us that he got for his research. This was a great learning exprience for me to see because it allowed me to practice teaching.