… It seemed like a good idea at the time…

Little mini techie sessions for students (and those teachers who want to sit in) to see some of the cool stuff I learned about at Tech Camp last summer.  …our very own Jr. Tech Camp, chunked into small after school sessions.  The first one is this Thursday afternoon.  I’ll be showing them how to use BITSTRIPS to create cartoon characters and comic strips.  I’m excited…. ….and nervous.  My first concern was that I wouldn’t be able to get students interested enough to stay after school for this.  Shortly after that, my second concern was that I might have too many students interested and not enough room in the computer lab.  A flyer went home today, asking for permission slips back by Wednesday.  I’m going to try to have students’ bitstrips accounts set up prior to the Thursday session.  I’ll keep you posted on how this goes…

Deciding on what to cover in this first session wasn’t too difficult.  Since I’ve posted a cartoon character of myself on my library door this year, created at www.bitstrips.com, I’ve had a number of students and teachers ask how I made it.  I thought this would be a good place to start our tech adventures, letting the students create themselves as a bitstrip character.  If time permits, they can create a comic strip as well.  In addition, this session fit well into our 1st six weeks school theme “Who Are We?”.  Like I said… …It seemed like a good idea at the time…

Wish me luck!