Blog Post 10

In preparing for my Ted Talk presentation, I am currently encountering several difficulties, which includes the unfortunate event that we will not be able to conduct and conclude our research in time for the Ted Talk. Although we are on schedule for the meetings with the principals and we are also on schedule in our creation of the permission slip, we cannot schedule a convenient time with the various schools for us to visit and interview students. However, my project partner is a junior this year and I plan to attend a college in the area. We hope that our work will not go to waste, and we plan to continue our project next year.

Blog Post 9

So far at this point in time, we have met with the Palo Alto Unified School District Director of Research, Evaluation, and Assessment. Ms. Diana Wilmot, Ph.D. has helped us in creating a permission slip form to give the different schools, along with helping us conduct our research in the most efficient and reasonable manner. Due to scheduling issues, we are behind schedule in conducting our interviews and surveys, but we hope to coordinate a date to visit the schools within these following two weeks. We are almost finished with creating an acceptable permission slip, and will distribute these forms as soon as we finish, which will hopefully be within the following week.

Blog Post 8

I plan to use an overhead projector for my TED talk in order to show people a sample of my project’s survey questions. Since most of my project has been contacting school staff and other administration people, we do not have results to share. Instead, I plan to use notecards and describe our project to the class. So far in class, I liked the TED talks that used the white board. I am still unsure as to how I can incorporate the white board into my TED talk, but I hope to try. I also enjoy TED talk presentations, and I may also show pictures of the schools we are interviewing.