A Couple of Minor Victories.

I appear to have had some successes of some sort today.

After my raising a small stink about there not being any assistance for my two IEP kids in my first period class, I had three different visits from two different paras in class today. I immediately put them to work and included them in the class activity, helping the kids. I am not sure if this will continue, but I am already trying to establish relationships with them.

One of the kids in the class wrote on his "About Me" index card on the first day that he was "terrified of computers." I talked with him a little this morning and he indicated that he had been on the Internet a couple of times, but had never done anything else. He said that he didn't even know what a file was. After talking with the class a little bit about the "Scavenger Hunt" assignment, I did a quick introduction to computer files, folders and search engines. I also showed him how to input his Scavenger Hunt answers into the form and convert his answers to links. He seemed to get it. I helped him with one answer out of 14. By the end of class, about 10 minutes later, he had completed two more answers without my assistance.

As my friend Lee Evans would say: "Cool!"