reflection #7

This week, me, Braden, Tara, and Tahna went to observe at Wasatch High School and it was a lot of fun going with every one.  I really like this school and I think I would enjoy teaching here.  It's more diverse than Lone Peak.  Also,  they get a pretty big budget for all of the multimedi classes.  There were so many multimedia classes to choose from and I wish I had these kind of classes to attend in high school.  The first classroom we went to, the teacher was teaching Flash.  The set up was great!  This was definitely an ideal classroom for learning Flash.  The teacher was able to se all of the computers and see exactly what each kid was doing.  He also had a program to teach the students flash by hooking up what he was doing on his monitor and having it be on each of the kids monitor so they can see what the teacher was doing.  The kids knew what they were supposed to be doing and have all of their animations done at the end of the class for the whole class to watch them.  I noticed that most of the kids' videos were kinda gory even though the teacher made it explicit for there to be no blood.  We then went to observe the video class and it was so much fun.  There was really nice equipment and computers.  The kids knew exactly what they were supposed to do as well.  There was a count down for when the school news would come on since they were in charge of it.  Every student had a role in the production of it.  At the beginning of the class, we watch some of the kids commercials that they made, and they were actually really good.  The teacher gave some feed back, but not much of it was positive.  Another thing that the teacher did was that he gave the students positions that they didn't want to have, for example the kids that didn't want to be the news anchors got that position.  I don't know if that was a good or bad thing, but it looked like each student became really good at their job.