Tusday 27/4/2010

Today's Multimedia class went off without a hitch, i've set up a project for the students to do, and so they just continued on with that for half the lesson and then had a choice of going on with it for the rest of the lesson or changing to one of the other tasks that they are completing at the moment. most moved on to photoshop, and went through the activities.

small niggles
- street view not having all of hobart on it
- a fair few students not showing up
- concluding what im saying in front of the class with something other that "go to it"
- DON'T SAY YOUS (its not a word)

Next lesson i want to introduce MovieMaker and start with that, i think i will create a step by step guide, much like the photoshop one, with collected standard movie clips and music.

Wednesday 21/4

Today was a good day, i only had one class but it was the conclusion to the class that i did on monday with the computer science students. The class was on java constructs, and i felt really didn't go well, i was nervous, and as i found out today, it had shown (some students commented on my shaking, *gulp*). I lost track of where i was, and hadn't researched the topic enough to answer the tough questions that the Comp Sci students had. I also had a few syntax errors and logical errors in my program idea which didn't help.

So for this class i had the program fully finished, minus one part on purpose. I found from the first class that they still didn't have a great knowledge of the basic setup of a java program so i went through all of it on the board before they started work, im pretty sure the whole class has finished that off now, and i am planning to continue with that reinforcement of java constructs in the next few lessons.

Im now home and Cat (teacher) has given me the Multimedia classes records to write reports for, so i'll be spending tonight doing that, and marking the computer science students algorithm work as well.

Tuesday 20th.

Today, being Tuesday was a very big day for me, i've got Workplace Maths in the morning, then Multimedia after the recess break, then duty for 30 min of lunch in the cafeteria, then another lesson of Workplace Maths, and then finally Cisco, before home time.

I'm writing this during the cisco class and my brain has turned to mush, it's been a

really

long day.

Workplace Maths - Today i worte notes about Johns teaching style and how he keeps the class on task, the main things i noticed were his change of activities regularly, and just having a good ability to check on each of the students enough to keep them on task and not talking to each other.

After about 10 min, i started mimicing his behaviour and going round the room check on the students, which helped in reinforcing that "on task" attitude that the class had. I was able to help about 6 students with questions, and noted that the most dificult problem that faces the students was understanding contor lines on a map (which it appears that none of them had done), but other than that the worked really well, on a worksheet that was, what john believes, is above their level of skill.

Multimedia - This class ran in exaclty the same way as the first time i ran it, i gave them 45min on their excel and photoshop activities, and then 35min to continue with the PowerPoint activity i started with them "Creating a PowerPoint presentation about yourself" including 2 new skills, Slide Transitions, and Object Animation.

Workplace Maths - This lesson the students were in a computer lab working on a poster collecting and display a heap of maths information "Airline prices vs Distance Travelled", i spent most of the class either monitoring their work, or helping 1 or 2 with basic computing skills, (creating a graph from data).

CISCO - The cisco class basically runs itself, the students have online worksheets to continue with and they just do that.

Time to go

See ya

Adam

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