In Troy today, we officially started using the rhythm wheels software. The kids always complain when they have to take another pre- or post-test. It takes quite a bit of convincing to get them to take the test. Usually telling them they won't be able to start the fun stuff until they finish their tests works, but today it took more than that. I think many of them are just tired of learning math. They are fairly easily bored by the introduction to the culture behind the tool, and they know that when we start working with a new tool we start with the culture behind it.
The pre-test and cultural background took up most of the time, but there were some kids who were able to complete some beats and get them saved before time was up. Next time will be solely devoted to creating more beats and saving them to a CD they can take home.
Today's session in Albany was probably the best we have had so far. We told them to create a postcard with Paint.net, and many of the kids became very focused on their work. We had more students than computers, but we told them to work together and switch when one person finished their design. This seemed to work very well.
We had a different counselor than normal supervising them today, and we had far fewer counselors in training to distract the kids. The kids listened to the counselor, who was very strict and disciplined them before they got too out of hand. This made the students much easier to work with. We were all very thankful for this change. I'm not sure if the BGC finally listened to our requests, or if we just happened to get lucky today. We are all hoping we have the same supervising counselor next time.
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