I had a great experience with the students at the ECDC. Although I did not just help one group during my visits, I got to see how excited the students were about their projects. On that first day that we visited with the students we really had no idea were we needed to start. Then I went back the following week and it was a whole different atmosphere. Everyone was busy working on the computers or at their tables. After just a week they had really begin to understand the blog and they just knew that they wanted to type something. I think they really got play with the computer and understand how much they could really do. I think we really opened their eyes to how much fun research and projects could be. I was even amazed with how much they wanted to do and learn about.

I think that when I have my one classroom I will wanted to do this kind of project with my students. Depending on the age group I will probably have parents involved with helping at home on the computer. It will take alot of work explaining and alot of patience with parents who are not real familiar with the computer but in the end I think the parents will really appreciate the experience. I think that students need more of these kinds of experiences. Students are not real excited about book and paper assignments anymore. They need more hands on research experiences.

Over all this experience with the students has really been great!