Junior Field

It's Spring break, and I started doing my Junior Field Experience at my local High School. Today was my first day, and something very interesting happened. I was observing an inclusion bio class, and the school went into a lockdown! It wasn't a drill either, something was going on in town, and all the schools went into lockdown. It was quite interesting to watch these students behave, they were difficult to control as it was. Thankfully everybody was alright. Not a bad way to start off a Field Experience.

Questions

Matt already posted them, but here they are again

1.What are the symptoms of a mustard gas attack?

2.Does a mustard gas affect a person immediately?

3.What was promised to Mexico if they allied with the Germans against the United States of America?

4.What type of warfare were the Germans planning on starting on the first of February, and how long did the Germans think it would take for this type of warfare to make England want peace?

5.What would your reaction be to this telegram if you were the president of the United States? What would it be if you were the president of Mexico?

Success!

Well we finished what we couldn't do last week! The first part of our podcast is finished, and the second part will be finished independently. We have also came up with our five questions, but they still need to be posted. Our bad fortune from last week was turned around, and we didn't laugh once during this round of the podcasting. I'm glad that we got it done, and can now focus on writing and teaching our lesson plan. I'm kind of excited to see everyone teach their lesson. However, I'm probably more excited to act out the behavior cards that will be given out during the lessons. The last day of podcasting was fun, and now I am looking forward to the lessons of my classmates.

Podcasting Day 4

We really have to get going today. Last week was a disaster, and this is our last day in the podcasting computer lab. We are going to break our podcast up into two parts, and work on them separately. This should allow us to get the podcast over faster, so we can work on our 5 questions. I think I can get over the laughing fit from last week, and get this podcast done! After that it is on to the 5 questions and then making a lesson plan for our topic. Hopefully we can get everything done today, and catch up with the rest of the class. Podcasting really isn't that hard, but it is easy for something to go wrong. I plan on changing that today, and hope to get this thing done.

End of Day Three

WOW, just WOW, today was a complete disaster. We got absolutely none of our podcast done. Murphy's Law was in effect today, Everything that could have went wrong did. Our first attempt was ok, with only one tiny mistake. No big deal. So we re-recorded, and we were good to go. However, the computer decided to be a jerk, and took us away from the page before we could save the podcast. Then, someone made a joke, saying the first part of our podcast sounded like a Pepto Bismal comercial (YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE! >:). After that we just couldn't get Pepto out of our heads, and every time we tried to continue the podcast, we burst out in laughter. This definitely was not how I expected today to go. We would have been better off getting snowed in, or not coming at all. Hopefully Friday we can get through the podcast quickly and efficiently.

Podcasting Day 3

Today is the third day in the podcasting lab. Now the real work begins, today we have to start podcasting our readings. I'm excited, but a little bit nervous as to how this turns out. Matt isn't here today, but Luiz is, so we can still get some significant work done. I'm not sure how this is going to turn out. Hopefully whatever happens turns out to be good.

End of Podcastng (Day 2)

I thought today was another successful podcasting day. We did another introductory podcast, talking about what our final podcating project will be about. This second podcast came out pretty good. Next time, we will need our readings so we can break it into parts. Having the readings will help us start to head towards a final goal. It will also get us used to podcasting our readings, so it can be perfect for our final project. I like how our group is mixing science and history for our podcast. This keeps it interesting for all of us.