Monday, March 3, 2008
The Thrill of Victory and Agony of Defeat
Victory
The first virtual trip to the Carnegie Museum of Natural History went fabulously well! The kids behaved perfectly and the connection was good. After the trip, several kids commented how much they enjoyed the virtual trip. They were eager to get started on the follow-up activity, which was dissecting owl pellets.
Defeat
The following week we tried virtual field trip #2. The plan was to connect with Mr. Talty’s 8th graders at Lorna Byrne Middle School to begin a series of activities pertaining to science. Mr. Talty and I put our students in 10 groups of 3. The groups would be matched up and introduced to each other. His students wrote a science procedure that my students were going to try and replicate via the virtual field trip. Both classes were excited about getting started. Unfortunately, we were unable to connect due to technical difficulties.
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Oh, the word defeat...I'm wondering, Tammy, if your class and Mr. Talty's class have been able to make the connection later on? have the technical issues been resolved?
Now that you've got that T1 line up and running, I wonder if there have been more victories and less defeats?
~Camille
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