Week 2, Day 2

1. As a group, we went over the video and audio functions in Record, as well as Paint.
2. For the newspaper homework assignment, Jean-Claude interviewed his wife on the status of education in Senegal. When he discovered the option of recording interviews, he had a definite Ah-hah! moment.
3. Each teacher was asked to record one video of her/himself and one interview. At that moment, a team of students from Paris arrived at school to scope out the school's premise. They are planting fruit trees around Senegal to help stop desertification in West Africa.
4. One Parisian student was curious about the green laptop Jean-Claude put in her face while asking questions about their project.
5. Making videos = simple. Titling and saving video = not so much.
6. Paint was productive.
7. We drew two examples of equations on the chalkboard and asked them to simulate a picture that represents 1/2 or 1/4.
8. For homework: come to class with two ideas of assignments you could use in your classroom using the xo.
9. When brainstorming in class, we got silence.
10. So I continued to provide them with options that have worked in the past. Options to use in their classes.
11. Hopefully it will catch on.
12. The good news: Everyone in Senegal learns poetry. As a poet, I find this fantastic.
13. Second graders are unable to write poetry, since they are unable to write.
14. Using Record they can begin the creative process by speaking poems into their xo.
14. I think it will work.