Reading Project--Day Ten

We started recording on Monday. It was not the most oppurtune day to begin recording. We had a two hour delay because of the Super Bowl.

Because of the shortened time, we only managed to record two groups in the first class and one group in the second class.

This did not go as well as planned. In the first class, I did not properly start the camera, and missed a significant chunk of the student presentation. I will say that this might have been at least partly because we started, stopped, and restarted several times. One of the students was struggling with a mixture of stage fright and a lack of practice with the teleprompter. Since this was the very first student to read, we allowed him to restart once. The second time, he happened to want to restart right after another teacher walked in front of the camera and made a lot of noise, so I let them restart again.

Other than that, there we no problems with recording. However, upon going back to the room, the Reading teacher and I looked at the videos. The sound quality is abysmal. We plan to place the camera much closer to the students in the future.