The number of kids at Troy have been dwindling slowly over the past few weeks. There were only a total of six kids today. Some have lost interest and quit the program. It seems that there are also other activities at the BGC the children can choose to partake in, and they will sometimes choose these other programs over ours. This makes for horrible data collection and harder to analyze results, but at least the kids who stick around are really enjoying the program and are definitely there for that reason.
Today, the kids worked on creating new beats with the rhythm wheels software. I saved all their work to a flash drive so I can burn their beats to a CD and give it to them on Thursday. On Thursday I will administer the post-test for the rhythm wheels software, and then we will start experimenting with the programmable version of the graffiti grapher software.
The kids at Albany were better than normal today, but not quite as good as they were yesterday. There were fewer kids today, so there were fewer distractions. We had them create their name using one of the CSDTs we had used in the past as well as Paint.net, which we will later turn into a stamp.
The kids always seem to be more interested in using Paint.net than they do in the CSDTs. I think this may be because it is less structured and they don't have to think as hard about how they are going to create what they want. They can just draw what is in their mind rather than having to transform that into points on a grid.
We learned that the ABGC will be closing on August 13 to undergo renovations, which means that our program will be coming to a close a bit sooner than we expected. Troy may be ending a bit sooner as well because the kids are progressing faster than anticipated.
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