In this session we really wanted to get boys engaged with describing both object qualities. From our last session it seemed that many of the objects were ideas about (inter)activities, like slide, window, bungee.
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In the last session we found that the things children made were inter activity things slide and bungee both suggested an adventure playground or theme park, we discussed Banksy’s recent Dismaland and Disneyland and decided to go with Recycleand as … Continue reading
I sent the class some of the photos from my recycling table
It was very cold so I was ensconced in woolly hat and fingerless mittens
We spent quite a long time looking at the things I was showing the boys on the screen,
I had two things that had some similarities and some differences.
There were many guesses about the material – rock, eggbox, balloon, purse, cushion, black bag, gloves – we tried to focus more on adjectives and found soft , shiny but this was quite difficult, the consensus was that I was showing them a whoopie cushion which made a noise. I think this is interesting because screens turn everything into the same material a screen image – so it maybe is quite arbitrary what exactly the material could be next week we will think more about adjectives and describing things in the classroom.
I was really enjoying balling up the paper and stretching it out, to show how it could change dimensions. I am thinking of doing a bit of video to show this.
The boys made things using two materials. Some found this quite hard, especially the bubble wrap and paper clips (there was a strong temptation to spend the class popping). One boy said he would like to work with hair and blu-tac… ewwww…so he really understood the challenge!
Favourite materials were sticks and blu tac and sticky labels and tissue paper, tinfoil was fun but not especially combined with string …..let’s keep pushing forward on this…it is all an experiment so far and we don’t know where it’s going to lead…
One of my favourite objects was in fact the paper clips and bubble wrap.
I am getting lots of training in making quick responses to interactions with the screen and buttons…my reflexes are not quite there yet and I missed capturing so many wonderful things. It is hard to know where to look sometimes so we will have to develop a strategy for interacting with the screen.
The boys introduced themselves and showed me some of their found objects that they had gathered together on their recycled Table
There were quite a few unusual things including a medal “found” in a sister’s room…mmmm….
Ann Donnelly was here to help
The first session started off well but we soon lost contact
we had no chat no audio and no video …..and so the only way we could communicate was by the whiteboard….
We found out that the broadband signal was very weak and so we had to ask the school to allow us an hour of dedicated broadband just for us for session No2
Natasha and I had a lot of fun planning the sessions, looking at the found objects and recycling stuff they had gathered together on their recycling table. I love the pink pentagons on the football – The session went quite smoothly as we tested all the controls and practiced with the whiteboard, saving pages and capturing screenshots. We decided to keep session 1 simple to allow boys to introduce themselves and their objects and get some practice interacting with the screen and collaborate environment.
We tested different cameras and ways of showing things in the after school environment we had bandwidth all to ourselves, little did we know that this would not be so easy in day to day school life.
