January+2011

Monthly Activity Reflection
January 2011 Standards II-A, II-F, III-A, III-B, III-D The sixth grade Social Studies classes are continuing the lesson started in December. They are ready to import their photos and drawings. I helped the students use the scanner, showed them how to save on the network and find the information later on another computer. Some of the students that took photographs already know how to import pictures to the computer so we had them peer tutor those that do not know how. We are now ready to start teaching how to create a photo story. This entailed several more visits to the lab for story creation and narration. One of the things the students liked about the photo stories was recording the narration. A few of the students had played with recording themselves and tweaking the speed of the recordings. When the other students heard them they started playing with their own recordings and had a lot of fun. .Seeing them having so much fun making recording gave me the opening to teach them about podcasts. The teacher decided that might be the next project she has her students do. One thing I learned is to always be ready to take advantage of an opening in the lesson to teach something new. Students love learning new things. I have not done much this month because we have the end of the semester with semester tests, a workday and a holiday. But that was okay because it gave me more time to work with the sixth grade teacher who is also learning as her students are learning. I found that the students were excited to learn how to use the scanner to save their drawings. This made me feel like what I was doing was worthwhile. This gives me hope that future lessons with other grade levels will go as well.