Tech Club Day 3

This week we introduced Google Earth to the students in tech club.  We got 5 new students who hadn't worked with the tech club before.  We decided to come up with a list of places the students would search for like Mt. Everest, Eiffel Tower, their house etc.  Trying to find their houses was probably the most exciting part for them.  It was really cool for them to see their houses from the sky.  They also enjoyed looking at their school and MSU.  A lot of the students started to get bored with the project after a while. I had a first grade student again and it was hard for her just to type in the places to look up.  She didn't fully understand really what we were doing.  She thought that Mt. Everest was a really cool place to look at though, which was exciting to see. We also looked up Disney Land.  Some students stopped working on google earth for the last 15 minutes of our time together.  One student worked on educational games, the other played on Tux paint.  There was one student though that really really enjoy Google Earth and was looking up places I had never even heard of.  His father is a geologist so it was really interesting to see all the places he was interested in seeing.  We aren't sure yet what we are doing next week since we had troubles taking up the entire time.  We will get together or email each other over the week.