IRLO Reflection

On the IRLO project I feel that especially in the first draft of this project I put in a lot of effort one of the most challenging aspects was working through Scratch and just figuring out how to do the things I wanted to do. I watched some of the videos and tutorials on how to use it, but I found the best way to learn was just by playing with the program. It took me a little while to develop the idea I wanted to do, once I decided on the whole science kitchen thing I had a hard time in figuring out how to ask questions I wanted to in that theme. I think that my overall vision for this project was a bit too grand and in the future I may put a bit more time into fully developing this project into something I would be happier in using a class. I think that I would clean up some of the images and probably implement some recorded sounds instead of lengthy text. Overall I think I produced a product that I am happy with and would feel comfortable showing others.

Designing and sharing an IRLO impacts my future teaching in the way that I may actually use this program. I had a discussion with a few other classmates recently on Scratch and generally agreed it was a neat program that would be useful in the classroom. I think that it would work well to show students the program and see what they could produce. Scratch could be useful for providing individualized way to present content students, but I feel that the best way to utilize Scratch would be in the hands of students. I definitely could see certain students getting into this sort of tool to produce projects. I also think that working with Scratch continues the process of getting myself and my peers used to trying new technologies and learning how to access how we could use them in the classroom.