We’re in Day 2, and we still have twice as many kids as we did last year. They are VERY cool kids.
I started with Alice (www.Alice.org) and had the kiddos do the 4 tutorials. Some finished yesterday.
Today I started out by showing the school website, especially calendar and how to find it (we’re the second hit on a Bing search using Hillcrest High School Dallas and 3rd on a google search).
After the tutorials, I have them look at the same worlds and then let them loose to explore.
Tomorrow, I’m going to show them how they can do a web page in Word, Powerpoint and then show them Dreamweaver. Then I’m going to cut them loose and see what they come up with.
Last day, movies.
The other elective teacher and I are swapping kids next week.
The beauty of my “curriculum” is that I can go with the flow, give them a taste of my courses, and a feel for how I teach – basically give them a set of assignments and let them go.
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