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For this week:
- Club Session – +3 hours – This weeks session began with the students reading various reviews of games written on the website 1up. Students worked as teams to figure out a game’s Plot, Setting, Theme, and Characters by simply reading the review. As a class we shared these responses. Students were then given the second half of the session to play games.
- Organizing – +2 hours – I have begun compiling the results of my pretest from StudyIsland and placing them into an Excel document. Also, I have begun erasing the pretest results from the StudyIsland program, otherwise the site averages those scores into the posttest.
For this week:
- Club Session – +3 hours – This week was catch up for the students who had missed any previous sessions. Because this week is a short week before Spring Break, I had assumed a small turn-out. Following this session, in two weeks, the students will complete their final club for my project where they will begin to take notes on their game while using the interactive tutorial as a guide and take the post-test.
For this week:
- Club Session – +3 hours – This week we finally had a totally full turnout without any other activities interrupting the session. We began with a review of literary elements, using a PowerPoint to highlight each of the terms and associate them with various games. Students were then broken into small groups in order to play a few games. While playing, students were asked to pay attention to the various elements within their games and a discussion was held about each at the end.
For this week:
- Lesson Planning – +3 hours – plans have been initially laid out in our school format. Following this, I plan to figure out a way to make this more visually stimulating for the user.
- Club Session – +3 hours – Final students have taken their pretest. Control group students were randomly selected from other students who take clubs on various days and most have finished their pretests as well. During club session, students were introduced to literary elements and given product descriptions as found on various videogame sales websites. Students were asked to find the literary elements within these descriptions and then games were played.
For this week:
- Continued video work – +2 hours – Video has been entirely clipped together and voiced over. I will be running it through a few of my students later on this week to be sure that it makes sense, then I will finalize and place it in the various slides.
- Clubs canceled – 0 HOURS – Well clubs were canceled this week due to a trip off site. While this gave me time to get work done, it will force me to condense my lessons to save time (pre-test during non-club hours).
