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June 03, 2003 at 11:57 am
Students & Computers...
Summer School is upon us! I am so glad… It’s day #2 and things are going pretty well. So well, in fact, that I’m sitting here in the middle of class, adding to this Blog every few minutes or so — maybe I can get some sort of Guiness World Records award for “Shortest Blog written over the longest period of time.”
Talk about a 180 degree difference from the kids I have during the regular school-year, though. Regular Ed kids are so easy (sitting quietly, doing work, raising their hand, etc.). We do have a couple of kids from Ozanam here, but once you get them in a regular school setting, they seem to act a lot differently; more civilized (kind of makes one think). Still, I’m thankful for the opportunity to do this. God provides!
Our class is using a program called NovaNet — it’s a computerized credit-recovery program that complies with all state and national educational codes. All of the students are taking different classes ranging from geometry and english to government and health. It’s pretty cool for the most part but, it being a computer program and all, there are still a few bugs that we have to deal with. Mostly, NovaNet teaches the kids without us teachers having to do anything but help them along here and there, but because of the varying subject matter, we’ve always got to be on our toes. Another neat thing is that NovaNet tracks the progress of the students from the amount of time that they sit at the computer to their proficiecy within the lessons and on the tests. The main teacher and I, both from Ozanam, laugh at the lack of stress involved, compared with our usual days during the year.
There’re 18 days left here. Wish me luck.
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