Today was a little bit of a hodgepodge. Our plan had been to finish up PowerPoints and hopefully have all students present today. We are used to having around 3 or 4 boys in Tech Club. today about 15 students showed up, most expecting to play computer games the entire period. We had to scramble to make a new plan with all the extra students. We didn't think we had enough time or resources to help each student create their own PowerPoint, so we had new students work on typing while students that already had most of their PowerPoint done finish up.
I think this went ok, it was unfortunate that the other students were just stuck doing typing skills the whole time, but they were focused and stayed on task.
The great part of the day was that one of the students finally presented his PowerPoint...4 class periods later! It was great though, he had pictures and animation to his slides and he did a great job.
I am not sure what to expect of Tech Club next time. There could be 15 students, there could be 3. There isn't much structure to the program, and it seems as though students have the freedom to go between the After School program and Tech Club, which is a little frustrating. Some of them seem to show up just to see what we are doing, and then decide they would rather go back to After School, so that's a little tough. Hopefully we will have a couple more students present and then Andi has a great idea for a google docs/mad libs activity for next time. I think it will be fun and it can accommodate a large number of students if necessary.
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