<strong>Your Name: Han Zhu</strong>

<strong>Today’s Date:</strong> 2008/4/18

<strong>Day(s) worked or described:</strong> T  F

<strong>Total hours for week: 4</strong>

<strong>The School: Shoesmith
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<strong>Kind of Work:</strong>  Project Prep, Helping in Lab

<strong>Main Report or Narrative: </strong>Tuesday I started learning the intricacies of Scratch and I have to say, I am even less optimistic than before as to whether or not we'll be able to teach the kids to use it, especially given the limited lab time each student has each week. I was thinking of maybe doing a simpler project than a game? I saw one project that was a short story and I had the idea of having a class do a literary project on Scratch in the form of an illustrated book - clicking a button would turn a page so it'd be like a real book and they could include pictures. My only reservation is that it's not really using Scratch to its full potential. Thoughts? Anyways, I did that pondering while waiting for Mrs. Cranley to show up to our meeting, but after waiting 10 minutes, I went to search the school to her. After scouring the school, I gave up and started work on a project for her. When I see her next week, I'll finish the project with her just so she'll learn how to do it.

Thursday was like deja vu in that I showed up to school and realized nobody was there and the meetings I had planned were obviously not going to happen. Yeahhh... for some reason I thought they'd all still be there even though the kids weren't.

Friday was deja vu again, but in a different way. I came in and spent some time answering some of Mr. Willis' questions about the school website. Then I spent a little more time on Scratch and on Mrs. Cranley's project before a third grade class invaded. I didn't work last quarter at a time when young students were in the lab, so I'd forgotten how insane it gets. It was also really hot, and I had to ask myself when I had started working at Mollison. OK, so maybe not that bad, but there were paper airplanes and kids muttering under the breath about me because I told them not to throw paper airplanes and parts of computers crashing to the ground (side panel of one CPU... still not sure how it happened).

 