One of my colleague’s at the school is a computer weenie like me. He’s been working on a web-cam based program for teaching. He is still working on it, but in the meantime has created a couple of tidbits. There are two short video clips under the BigTop English web page. One is just a short clip of our building with some cool, flashy graphics. The other video is me. David took some video two weeks ago of me playing the “whisper game” with my 1st level English class. The object is to whisper to two teams the same sentence and have them whisper it down the line from one to another. Whatever team first has it come out the same as what I said wins a roll of the die and adds points. At the end of the game, the team with the most points wins. This is one of my favorite games we play on Fridays. I whisper mundane things like “I want pizza” or “Do you want chicken?” or sometimes slip in some 50 Cent rap lyrics like “She fine as hell, she about the dough, she doing her thing out on the floor.” It’s funny how often things come out all jacked up on the far end.
I can’t believe I get paid to do this job. Check out how excited these kids get. What a blast!