Chris Furuya
Fuller
Friday: 3 hours
PROJECT PREP AND EXECUTION, HURRAY!
Hours have been, as you can see, really weird because I've been hesitant to wander out in the snow this week (and last week was the week from Hell, post-cold mucous and midterms should never hit simultaneously). But, when I came to work today, Ms. Burdette expressed that the newsletter wasn't working out ( http://blogs.cuip.net/chrisf , blogroll- almost nobody's using them) and that she wanted to work with one student specifically and teach him how to do research online.

That's really cool; most of the kids in the class are in basic learning, but Larrue Gill can do reading comprehension of fairly complicated text. ( <a href="http://fullerblogs.cuip.net/burdette//" title="http://fullerblogs.cuip.net/burdette/" target="_blank">http://fullerblogs.cuip.net/burdette/</a> ,  recent posts, Frederick Douglass- he read the text, then posted a comment.) I worked with him today, teaching him Wordpress and how to read a text and find the main ideas, then do a report. Don't know where this goes from here, it's a lot of touch and go to see what he can pick up on since he's so young, but it's exciting as heck. Can he find a photo? Can he find a reliable site to browse texts? Can he write a bibliography? Can he...

Bless God for Black History Month, the month dedicated entirely to biographies.

Also, Ms. Chabella's class's computers now have sound (again. Yes, this is the same place that the computers were on moot... this time, the speakers have been getting looser, can I just duct tape them in place?) and I've taught her how to center the screen in the monitor's field of vision. Somebody needs to upgrade these monitors.