First of the Reflections

The first few days of the new unit on respiration has begun. There have been some good and some bad.
First the good: According to the consutlee, "the new notes are going great." The students really like the integration of the videos that go along with and help describe the notes and processes. "The two videos used on glycolysis and pyruvic acid conversion really helped the students to understand." My consultee even told me that students that were not always paying attention and less interested in the class, seem to be more interested and paying more attention. The videos are doing their job.
And for the bad: The linked video did not work, probably because the internet connection at the school is very slow and takes videos a long time to download and play. I did show my consultee how to download the video to the computer and play it from a file. She used the one I saved on the desktop for her. My consultee tried emailing and saving some videos to her jump drive but neither method worked for her. I need to trouble shoot her methods again. This means more time working with her and showing her again how to use www.keepvid.com. Another issue my consultee told me about was that when she used the YouTube video converter, she did not know where her videos were going after she converted and saved them. She is going to bring her laptop by this week for me to look at to see if I can find the videos. I am going to make her show me how she is using the converter and then we can work through it again. I will make her a step-by step plan of what to do so that she can have it saved on her computer and be able to do it without my assistance, even though I don't mind.