All About Me

I didn't have a chance to do my 'All About Me' project during my first practicum, since it was a placement in rotary band and my A.T. wanted me to just prepare them for the concert. Fortunately, I did manage to kill two birds with one stone and complete my A.A.M. project and art lesson today.

I used prezi, which I found to be insanely useful and would recommend to everybody. My boyfriend told me to use it, and at first I was hesitant, since it was already 11 at night and I still had to put together the entire presentation. It ended up taking as long to put together (an hour) as it did present.

It also turned out to be one of the more interesting lessons. The students seemed legitimately interested in tree planting and had lots of questions about it. I played a few videos for them as well and ended up going through all the images that I had originally intended to use in the fall.

Instead of creating a soundscape as part of the lesson, I instead had the students complete pastel drawings of their own interpretation of the images. A lot of them just drew what they saw, which was fine, but some incorporated elements of 'The Lorax' and others used text in their own way. They are also expected to write a journal entry as to how they think they'd do on their first day of planting.

I've really given these students a lot of work, and have made a point of meeting with them so they know which assignments they are still missing and how their marks are coming along so far.

Three more days!!!