Tech Club week 4

This week we planned to use Google sketch up because we wanted the kids to be able to do something fun, that they could understand, while also having them work with shapes and demensions. The school computers did not have this program and we did not have the administrator's password, so we couldn't download it onto the computers. Instead, we went to the Classroom Architect website and had students work with shapes and demensions there instead. It actually worked really well, they created what each of their classrooms looks like at their school first, then we let then design their ideal classroom. They had fun doing this. And it seemed to work better than last week because they were all interested in what they were doing, instead of some of them running around, not paying attention to us. It's still hard though, to do this program at La Motte because we never know how many students we will have or what ages they will be. And it's even more difficult because we don't have the ability to show students cool programs like Google Sketch Up.