Wednesday, April 2, 2014

Today we talked about World War I Technology.  The students spent the first half of class (or more like most of the class) finishing their test-corrections.  When they wrapped that up, I put up several pictures of technological advances during World War I and we explored things such as blimps, airplanes, tanks, machine guns, etc.  Afterwards, I put up a BBC online computer games in which students are given a scenario and they must choose the correct combination of technology in order to successfully complete the mission.  I had the class agree on what they wanted to choose and then give it a try.  I think the kids liked the computer game and had fun when I told them that their homework was to go home and play the computer game.  During the afternoon, I did my homework as quickly as possible so that I could spend my evening watching the USA v. Mexico soccer game.  The cool thing about living in a Latin American country is that the game was on about three different channels.  The not so cool thing was that all of the commentators were convinced that Mexico was going to win 2-0 or 3-0.  As I watched the American in their bomb pop uniforms, they played a brilliant first half and led 2-0 at halftime, then I got sleepy and fell asleep.  I don’t think it was 2-0 anymore when I woke up the next morning.