Day 2

Where is my class?? One administrative glitch and puff my class disappeared. We were looking forward to viewing the collaborative efforts in project based learning. Yesterday you could feel the synergy and the excitement. Fortunately, three members returned and revived the project based experiment. With a new group formed we spent the afternoon designing our project and imagining how we will present our work to the B. Ed. class when the time comes. It was nice that we had the choice to revert to a more traditional learning mode but I am sooo! pleased that our group choose the project approach. Time flew as our group roughed out our plan and divided up some of the work. We did much more than we all expected toward fleshing out our project details and directions. (Great work Margaret and Christine!)

I know that we are well on the way toward developing a project that will serve as a model for ourselves and our students in the future. Not only that but we have the opportunity to share it with a class of students who are beginning their teacher training. I feel that this strengthens our focus and adds even stronger purpose to the project. It is also neat that we get to demonstrate good project planning, learning task analysis, and assistive technology implementation all in one project. I feel that it will be very gratifying to see everything develop. Having the chance to share the work and work in such a focused group, makes me feel that I am part of a great learning community. Rocky start but away we go...Thanks Barbara on being flexible.