11/8

This last week we taught our tech club students how to copy and paste and to insert photos into word.  I was surprised by how excited some of them got about it, one of the girls was copying and pasting the entire time and was proud to show Nick and I her finished product.  However, a lot of the kids were pretty bored with it too.  We had them at least work on it for a little bit and then let them play on pbskids.org which they love so much.  One of the girls was playing with Garage Band and she was creating some pretty darn good music, which we played for all of the students near the end of the hour, it seemed to be a pretty good moment for her.  It has been hard from keeping these kids on track and doing what we want them to do, they seem to be pretty used to doing whatever they want.  One of the little girls is pretty active and I have a hard time keeping her from crawling all over the place or trying to leave the classroom. Each week I have had to give her the option of staying on her computer or going back to the gym to join the rest of the after school program, and she usually calms down after that.  Next week I want to try to get there early to get the word exercise opened on each of their computers so they are ready before the kids are able to branch off into other stuff.