Teaching Journal 10/15-10/19 Week #8

This week my students spent most of their time dong lab work on Project#2. I don't have a lot to report other than I am pleasantly surprised about how well their storyboards turned out and how well their rough drafts of Project #2 turned out as well. I have a group doing exploring how music has influenced their literacy and one group has done a project on how technology has influenced them. Two other groups have created videos on Youtube. The most entertaining project is one of the Youtube videos in which one of my students presents his literacy history in a galaxy far far away, with the Star Wars them song, and then battles technology while he's dressed as Darth Vadar. The really have put a lot of work into their projects, however, several of the groups need to work on strengthening their arguments a bit.  Overall, it was a good week. No major problems just major successes with creativity and great effort.