Hooray for Rotary!

My students and I were asked to make a "Doggie Delights" presentation to the Sunrise Rotary Club on June 10. I had one student and her mom show up for the early morning event, which turned out to be a lot of fun. The Rotarians are a great group! We brought a box full of dog treats and sold all but two! Members of the Rotary were very supportive. George from the Belligerent Duck offered to buy and resell the treats once we resume sales in the fall and Stan from Antonio's is working with us to brainstorm ways to make the sales more cost effective. It's nice to have so much support for our project, which began in part to fulfill a requirement for a college course!

Photo Story as a final

For a portion of their final, I had my English students create their own photo stories. All in all, they seemed to enjoy the project, in that it was something different for them to do. Each student selected a topic of interest, such as motocycles, guns, the Twilight movie saga, friends and relatives. One student took the assignment literally by creating a fictional story, then matched different parts of the story with selected pictures off the internet. She put in a lot of extra time, writing outside of class time! The students found the program fairly easy to work with and also managed to figure out how to download their choices of music off the internet.
It felt good to introduce something that was technologically new to them.