Curtis+Strange+Reflections+April+24th+and+26th

At this point, we are done presenting all the StoryKit projects, have been debriefed after the completion of all the presentations, and we are beginning to work with our Language Arts apps.

//April 24th// was a debriefing day in which Mrs. R. asked for feedback from us all on various aspects of the student presentations. We discussed as a large group and with our buddies presentation, voice recordings, drawing/imported pictures, backgrounds/text, and grammar. I discussed the elements Keiira struggled with (presentation: making eye contact) with her as we went through her StoryKit together. I stressed that more practice presenting would have helped her become more comfortable. No time to practice presenting was given to the students, they were just told to present. Other than that, her StoryKit itself had no issues and I congratulated her on her job well done!

//April 26th// was a day with Language Arts apps. Keiira was not there due to illness so I buddied up with Anna and Elias (as well as Jarrett and Lauren). Most of the apps Elias tried were too easy for him but Anna and I had him complete a few rounds of one that was most at his level. So instead, we adapted one of the apps into a game like Pictionary using parts of speech. This went really well and others began to join as we hooked the iPad up to the Promethean board. I think I did well explaining instructions of the new game to all that wanted to participate and helped them think of things to draw besides just nouns.

At this point for reflections, I cannot explicitly answer all the questions as before. I simply summarized what happened during the sessions, things I may have done as an issue arose, and outside of class have no preparations.