I really enjoyed this year. My students did as well. It was fun to try the innovative techniques with my reading classes. They were always motivated and often talked about my class as a favorite. They were very proud of their animation projects. I’m convinced that if they had the resources at home, they’d continue to play and create with the Go Animate website just for fun.
Although my students showed progress in the areas of basic writing skills acquisition, I am confident that if the computers had been faster and more reliable that the gains would have been more significant. Too much time was wasted attempting to log into computers and email accounts on the very slow Internet speeds in this lab. I feel that valuable educational time was wasted in this manner. Even with all of the work-arounds and attempts to adapt to the situation, I feel that the students deserved a better experience. I am so happy that they never gave up on their projects. Certainly this is a testament to the motivational powers of the creative abilities when given technology.
I am so happy to see the project documented in the website. It’s fun to look back at the pictures from the year, and to read my blog posts during the experience. Thankfully, I tried to keep it updated as I went, so it has been fairly easy to maintain. I am certain that I will continue to refine and try these techniques with future classes.
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