Implementing the First Creat and Publish Lessons: Day Three

We have fallen into a bit of a routine. The world history class spent the hour putting their presentations together. An extremely slow internet at our school slowed progress down a bit, but the kids were good at adjusting and working on other portions of their projects. I have one student creating bullet point slides and am having trouble convincing him of a more effective and creative way of getting his point across. I’m looking for more higher level thinking in representing ideas. I see many ways that I’ve dropped the ball with this class and could have made the experience much more collaborative.
My algebra class has fallen right in line with my plan. We are on schedule and will begin recording screencasts tomorrow. The students are nervous about having to speak to the computer. I’ve related to them that I too felt a bit uncomfortable the first time making a screencast. You do kind of feel funny, like you are talking to yourself. I’m pleased with this class. As a group they seem okay with taking a risk and putting themselves out there. A student commented to me today “you seem really psyched about doing this.” I told him that I am. I’m also playing up the fact that no other class in the school has done anything like what we are doing. I need to have a better assessment plan for how their learning was improved. I know their engagement has improved.

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