Blogging Project

In the ECDC there were multiple different groups of children to help. When you go into the classroom everyone asks for your help, you are not actually assigned to any group like you would think so if you are an online buddy like I was.

I was the online buddy. My group I was assigned to was the Salamander group, their blog and voicethread. I did not help out that much with this one because I was unsure what exactly I was suppose to do at the time. At first when I began I started out by adding all of the links to the children's blogs in the site that Dr. Elwood set up for us in the beginning. If you access the site with every one's information on who is to help out with what project then you can click on the group number and access their personal blog about their animal. I went into the classroom the last week and helped the Ant group with their voice thread and got that going.

Week of April 13th-17th

This week was very productive for the students. They have already gathered all of their information on their animals, my group was doing salamanders, and they were ready to go into the next step. This week's goal was to make the voice thread and finish up the projects. The slide share and Danielle's voice was recorded on the voice thread. It looks very nice but we wanted to add the children's voices to the slide share also.

I visited the class on friday morning to help the other groups that had not finished their projects do so. I mainly worked with the Ant group to help then make a voice thread. By the time that I left there were just two groups left that had not finished their voice threads.

All in all I think this was a fun and interesting project for both the students and the EC students. It was nice to actually go into the classroom and meet with the children face to face to help with the projects. I thought it was difficult to keep up with everything just being the online person, but those that were in the group with me did an excellent job at keeping me informed. I think all of the students projects came out well, the blogs looked great! Now the projects are done and everyone has just a little more experience in teaching children about technology.

Week of April 6th-10th

Starting out on this ECDC project was tough. At the beginning I didn't understand exactly what I was suppose to be. It was not until I went into class and talked with Dr. Elwood about what we were all doing. After coming to an understanding of what I was suppose to do I got in contact with my other group members. I am the Internet buddy, so at times it can be difficult to stay in contact but my other buddies seem to be on top of it.

This week I learned the log on information to access what my students are doing in the class and I started to check it out. I still need to look into a little more of what everyone has been doing. I know how to get a hold of my group and I appreciate how understanding they have been over this whole process.

This coming week we are working on our voice threads. We will be working on getting those into the blogs and I am here to help any and all that need the help.