Prepping for Trial Runs

This week was all about preparing for our trial runs. Our trial run with Ed Medina's class in New York begins on Monday, so I worked on finalizing everything with him and making sure he and I were on the same page with everything and his students were all ready to start working on their stories on Monday. We are very excited that this is going to be starting on Monday and lasting three weeks. We put the final details on everything this past week and I feel like we are ready to go on Monday. We will monitor the class, which will be divided into groups, thoroughly and receive weekly updates from them and Mr. Medina and survey them weekly, so we have many ways to monitor their progress. We are very excited to get this trial run started!

We also worked this week on getting the trial run/extended focus group started with Kim Pettlon's class at Hickman. We want to make the trial run with her class more technology based and see how into the technology her class is and how much they take away from it. We had a very in depth discussion on what we want to do with her class and a lot of it will just depend on what technology her class has available, which we are unsure of. So we have a few more things to find out from her, but after that we want to get the trial run with her class going soon.

I think we're in a really good place right now. These two trial runs are the final stages of our research and I have every reason to believe they will go very smoothly, although Kim Pettlon's class will take a lot of work to plan since Mr. Medina's class trial run has been planned out for a while now.