Class this morning started with reviewing some Kurzweil features and introducing a few new features. I felt like I forgot how to use all of the features previously taught until we started working in our groups.
Last week I was able to get three of my grade nine students using Kurzweil again. After class last week I went to school and asked the group of students why they didn't use the program anymore and they told me they didn't know their usernames anymore and they forgot how to use Kurzweil. After a quick 30 minute tutorial all three students are using Kurzweil again in their regular classrooms. I felt guilty that me or any of their other teachers never took this initiative earlier in the year. I was shying away from the program because I had never used it. I was given PD last year on Kurzweil but because I didn't have any students that used it I forgot quickly how the program worked. It's great to be using it on a regular basis and have doors opened for students who were struggling so much to keep up with the cirriculum.
Our group project is coming along nice. It's hard not to get sidetracked and start playing around with certain features. We might have overused the sticky notes.
