ASP Visit 4

Thursday's visit was a little discouraging.  We all came into the day excited about continuing the powerpoint project that we had started on Tuesday.  The students had been fairly excited about it, and although it was slow going due to the lack of typing skills, they seemed to enjoy the project and writing about themselves.  We planned to continue the activity where we left off, hopefully finishing the general outline of the slides and then helping them add special features to the slides.  However, only two of the original students showed up, and then we had two new students.  We helped the new students start on the project, but then our two regular students left to return to the after school program.  After School was doing a really fun activity with a play and costumes, and the students didn't want to miss out on that.  I can understand this, but it made continuing the project very difficult.  Thursday was also an early release day, so the students had been at after school for almost 2 hours by the time we got there, so they were pretty burnt out.  

We started the two new students on the PowerPoint, and they both seemed to like the activity.   They are impatient to see the project completed and want to present it to their peers.  Hopefully there will be other students in the club to present to!  Next time our plan is to continue the project because it seems unfair to cut the project short for the students who are enjoying it.  The time is so short to work with that it is taking longer to complete this project than we had intended.   Hopefully they will get to present before our 6 visits are up.