Service Project Session 3

The hardest part of the whole service project was actually completing the final product.  Leroy was doing everything he was supposed to be doing and paying attention until we had to do voice thread and actually creating the presentation.  It was too advanced for him to do by himself, so I was having to control the computer most of the time.  He did not understand how to work in Google Docs and in Voice Thread.  He created the story and how the presentation would be done.  But he did not do any of the final presentation except for picking out what pictures to use that he had found in an earlier session.  Overall, he learned a lot about different things on the computer but not as much as I thought he would when I heard the description of the assignment.  If I had to complete this assignment again, I would make sure to get someone that is in junior high or high school.  

Service Project Session 2

I asked Leroy about what he already knew about dogs.  This question was broad but I would narrow as he was giving me information.  He gave me some facts that he already knew such as, dogs bark to talk.  We then came up with questions to find out what he wanted to know about how dogs communicate.  We then sat down at the computer and researched on several different kid friendly websites.  The best information on this subject came from just simply searching websites that were provided by Google. I let Leroy work the computer as much as possible, he does not have a computer where he lives so he needed more help then I thought he would.  I showed him different things that he could do on the computer to organize, create and display a project.  It was easy to explain to a child how to use these programs because I had figured it out by doing it and exploring the programs and websites.  Overall, the service project is getting more interesting as we are doing research together.       

Service Project Session 1

For my service project, I got my boyfriend's son to help me with this assignment.  I started the assignment by asking him what he would like to learn about while we were sitting at the dinner table.  I thought this would be best because it was relaxed and I was not pressuring him in anyway.  He told me that "I want to know why dogs can't talk to people?".  We then talked about it and figured out that it would be a good essential question and would be interesting to learn about.  

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