The mobile lab is ready to go. We have set a date for May 19th as the beginning of our adventure. I have the unit planned from beginning to end, with step by step worksheets and instructions all posted on Moodle. The rubric for evaluation needs a few tweaks, but it is essentially ready. Kirk and a technician will be going out to ZP on Monday with the laptops to make sure they are networked or imaged or whatever. I will be going out to ZP for both Wednesday and Thursday to get a solid start with the kids, then Kirk will be there to support them on the other days. The students were well warned that they must have their story corrected and ready to go before Wednesday. Some of them still have grammatical errors and are in their 3rd or 4th correction. They won't get their hands on any computers until I give the ok. They all seem very excited with the project, or at least, with the ability to work with their own laptop for two weeks.
Questions:
- will they be able to finish in 2 weeks?
- did I make it too restricted?
- will they be able to be creative and spread their wings?
- Are my expectations too high?
- What unforeseen glitches will potentially stop the process?
- Is the anticipation going to be the best thing about this whole thing?
- what if it doesn't turn out the way I envision it?
- what if they kids don't learn what I want them to?
As with anything new and 'out of the box', I just have to forge ahead and hope that I will land on my feet. I think this will work, therefore I will make it work! the power of positive thinking!
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