Friday, June 29, 2007

Day 5 Shutdown Poweroff

Shutdown Poweroff
Today was very busy and alot of work on my world. The only sad thing is that I did not save and lost everything after lunch.
This has been a good week and I truly enjoyed it. I'm excited about my progress and hope to continue with this project.
Have a great summer...
Thank you

Day 5 Afternoon

Who supports and who benefits from your participation in this project?
It is my opinion that the foundation, Lee County Schools System and NCSU are supporting me in this project. The benefits would be me, my students and the school system.
What other technology do you wish you could use or have support for?
I do not know any other technology at this time that I could use, however I am open for suggestions.

Day 5 Morning

How do you see this game as a tool for connecting with your students?
I see this game as a tool to connect with my students by knowing more of what they do and what they are interested in. I think that they will be willing to explore new adventures with the games in health and physical education. They do alot of games in their other classes and this will be a new learning tool especially for my health class.

Thursday, June 28, 2007

Day 4 Shut down and power off

Shut down and power off
I feel much better today about what I accomplished however I am still about 2 days behind. I see a little light at the end of the tunnel. Maybe at the end of the 2 years I'll be caught up with the others. Have a great evening...

Day 4 Afternoon

What interested you in video games as a form of teaching?
I know that the students love to play video games, however until this workshop I did not see the positive side of playing video games. I am a physical education teacher and I guess I saw the couch potato side of computers games. So now if a student does not play for hours at a time I can see the value of video games in the classroom. I can see my students really enjoying playing healthy video games.

Day 4 Morning

What do you do well when connecting with your students?
The first thing I do to connect with my students is to speak to them as they enter my classroom. This usually puts a smile on their face and hopefully they will have a good day. I think I connect well with my students when I participate with them. I first demonstrate the activity and then participate with them.

Do you have any concerns about connecting with your students?
I do have concerns that some would want to be treated as a friend instead a student, that's why I treat all students the same. If one student wants to do something different or have a special thing they want to do I just say that "if all can't, you can't".

Wednesday, June 27, 2007

Day 3 Shutdown Poweroff

Shutdown Poweroff
We were introduced to many new things today. Very interesting. I only need to practice, practice, practice. I think my little brain is overflowing. Hopefully tomorrow I can catch up. I feel like I'm a day behind - what we did yesterday I understand more today. What we did today I'm still lost. Have a great evening.