<strong>Grace Sonnabend
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<strong>Today’s Date:</strong> 2011/02/24

<strong>Day(s) worked or described:</strong> M-T Week Six, T-W Weeks Seven and Eight

<strong>Total hours for week: </strong>Weeks 6-7 seven hours; Week Eight five hours

<strong>The School:
</strong>Fiske Elementary<em>
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<strong>Kind of Work:</strong> Tech general, Project prep, Project (with students)

<strong>URL(s)</strong>: http://www.photovisi.com

<strong>Main Report or Narrative: </strong>

<em>Weeks Six and Seven</em>:

Along with small routine tech support tasks (including removing obsolete monitors from a classroom), I spent most of this week planning a photo editing project for 5th-8th grade students. The project uses photovisi.com, which is a free collage maker with a few photo manipulation tools built in. On Wednesday of seventh week, after I had discussed the project with my supervising teachers, we visited the fifth and sixth grade classes looking for student volunteers. We ended up with two small groups, one with three sixth-graders and one with four fifth-graders.

<em>Week Eight</em>:

I did not work on Monday due to the President's Day holiday.

On Tuesday I met with my classes for the second time and began the project. The first step was making a collage as a group, which the students seemed very enthusiastic about. The sixth grade group did not finish their collage due to time constraints, but I was able to get through this first step with the fifth grade group, who by the end of my shift had taken over the software and were manipulating the photos and adding text/objects on their own.

On Wednesday I did not meet with the fifth grade group, but I did meet with the sixth-graders, who chose to start work on their own collages rather than finishing the group collage. One student finished; the others were not quite satisfied with the photo manipulations they had done and opted to save their collages/selected photos on my flashdrive to be reused in the next class.

<strong>My regular schedule at this school has changed, to become:</strong>

Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays 9am-12pm

(Formerly was 9am-11:30am on Tuesdays)

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