Servive Project Wrap-up

This was our last week for service projects, and our class was really busy putting the final touches on everthing. As on online correspondent, I have been busy e-mailing my peers to ask if they needed help with anything. I have been mainly corresponding with group 4 (mealworms) and I commented on their blog. Group 4 was really on top of things, and the only help they needed was comments. Their blog and VoiceThread look great.

I reached out to other people to through e-mail asking if I could do anything to help, and they either told me to just comment on their blogs for the kids to see, or that they are already finished. So, at the end of this project, I ended up being more of a "commenter" than an online support, because the other education majors that I was in contact with really had it under control. I really enjoyed being able to look at all the ECDC group blogs, and I was amazed at how well they turned out. When we first started, I thought that it would be really tough to get 2nd graders comfortable with the technology, and that the education majors would end up doing the bulk of the work for the students. But, when I look at and interact with all the student blogs, I can tell that the students really did the research, and the education majors were really there to facilitate learning.

I did get to practice with VoiceThread on my own, since in our previous assignment I used SlideShare. I explored the site, and I know I will use VoiceThread not only in the future, but in the present. I have already started setting up a VoiceThread for one of my clients with autism to do. I think that all the technology applications we have learned this semester will really revolutionize classrooms as well as private clinics like the one I work at.