Final trip to the Boys & Girls Club

This afternoon concluded our last trip the Boys & Girls club to help the kids on their digital story projects. The original student that my partner and I were assigned to the first visit to the club was absent last week as well as today. Instead, we were assigned to the student that Gyra and Allie had been previously working on. She already had a lot done--her interview had been completed and script had been written and recorded. The student brought her camera in and wanted help to upload the pictures and compile everything on the computer to produce the actual digital story. It was hard connecting with her and I am note sure why. I don't think it had anything to do with her interest in the project because she certainly was on a roll with getting stuff done and we could tell she was immediately ready for the next step. In contrast to the original student we had been assigned to work with, today's student had interviewed her father and uncle and I think that by having a personal connection, she definitely had much more of an incentive to complete the project. In comparison to working with the student this past Saturday for the CCE's college mentoring program, I think today's work with the student felt less like a type of "consultation" and more like a computer expert tutorial.