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So all of today was very "timey," in the sense that there was a lot that needed to be done or gone through but only a set limited amount of time so a lot of plans had to be cut out the schedule.

In the morning with the freshmen, work time for their Web BTW projects had to be cut out of the schedule for time's sake in order to make time for the ITA Jeopardy, the PPT Road Test, and the Dreamweaver Permit test. So next session that will definitely be one of the first things that needs to be done. But other than that, we got through everything pretty smoothly.

In the afternoon with Photoshop, the same problem of insufficient time came up. The original plan was to have Elizabeth's photo restoration and enhacement section go for about an hour, my compositing section go for another hour, and then have Pacal's "fix your face" activity go for the remaining 445 minutes or so. However, although things didn't go as planned, I think the students got a lot out of the session today from me and Elizabeth's presentation. Elizabeth's presentation did such a good job incorporating the "bigger picture" theme into her lesson but the only thing is that hers ended up being about an hour and a half so that made my presentation have to be cut for time's sake. A big reason why Elizabeth's lesson went so long was because of the discussions I think, so in the future, although the discussions are important becasue they bring up the bigger picture theme, we might have to cut back on them a bit.

But because of the time problem, my lesson seemed a bit rushed becasue I was going to try to get through everything I planned to get through and still leave time for Pacal and his setion. So what ended up happening becasue of my rushed plan is that those who already had a decent feel for the program caught on pretty well with what I was covering but those that didn't have as good a grasp of the program kinda began to fall behind--so we might have to go through compositing again in order to get more in depth as I had planned originally. So for next session we'll probably reintroduce compositing, get through it, and then go into the "fix your photo" project with Pacal.