Week8

Aileen brought up the Blurb and she showed us several examples including her sons work. It seems like a very professional and exciting project to children. I think students would love it. (I used the example to create a lesson plan requiring students to make their own book cover at teaching at PS 183.)

I really enjoyed the "Eco Books": Inventive Projects From the Recycling Bin by Terry Taylor. It was so impressive to make a book cover with wood blocks, disks, CD cases, debit cards and metro maps, etc.
We watched everyone's final "Alphabets” videos and I gained some ideas of how to improve my letters and video. However, because I did not have any knowledge of using Mac and their program, I really had a hard time making the video. I had to make an appointment with Alison (the art lab instructor) and spend extra time learning to use MAC. I felt this was too much. It would have been better if we had had a computer (creating blog and skills) workshop before we started the project or, perhaps if we were working with a partner (providing that one of the two was proficient in using MAC) would also have made the project less taxing and time consuming.

 Though enjoyable, watching the videos for a protracted period became a little tedious as I had seem the same videos the week before. Perhaps, if we had themes for particular letters, watching the videos would have proven less arduous. Perhaps the project, for class management sake, could have been staggered into sets of three with 5 fives students showing their work over three weeks. Taking in all 15 videos t once however was very difficult.