The Final Session------Yeah Right.....He's Hooked

Mentor: Keith Dello Russo
Mentee: Jay Lottes
Date: 5/1/09
Room: 82 & 83


1. What was our goal for the night?

For our final session the goal was to be get a YouTube video downloaded in to a PowerPoint video that can be used offline. This was supposed to happen yesterday, unfortunately this did not happen due to some mentor oversights of how unsimplified this process was going to be. I kinda rested on previous victories but yesterday proved that new issues can arise when situation are taken for granted. Left from yesterday, I still needed to find a file converter program that work work on our school machines. I did and once I was able to connect the dots between video, video down-loader, and file converter. I was ready to rock and roll.

2. Do you feel like we met the goal? Why or Why not?

Today the goal was met. Jay was able to see the whole process and he was not super overwhelmed. I cannot lie. He said he needs to run through it a few more time with me to truly feel comfortable. I can totally agree with him. This process took me a couple of time to do to really feel that I had the ability to do this process without reference to the video I watched the first time.

The goal of having Jay work with the application on his own was still not accomplished. Jay sat back and watched me do the process. He took noted. He ended up with about 18 steps. I said that your steps are literal, click here and go there. I tried to ease his anxiety with the short explanation that you are really doing four steps. Finding a video, downloading a video and converting the file and then putting that file into PowerPoint. I think the more he plays with it the easier it will become.

3. If the goal was not met, what could be done to help to attain the goal?

Well, as for most goals, time was the main factor of not meeting the goal of having Jay embed his own video today. He got to see the process but did not get to become tactile in the operations of embedding a video. I am not going to leave Jay high and dry because we are on our fourth meeting. I will be working with Jay to have him put in a video on his own with my help as he needs it.

4. How do you feel about the process in general?

The first two sessions were very different than the last two session. The first two session were very much hands on for Jay and the last two were not. I felt that the more technical the sessions were the more Jay let me lead and the more I did lead. I think that I should have put Jay in the driver seat more with finding the programs and applications for file downloading and file converting. It would have been good for him. I think in the end the process was fine because he got his original goals met of multimedia in a PowerPoint, e-mail, and social networking in all about 4-5 hours.

5. What do you feel should happen at the next session?

Well, there is no official next session but Jay and I will be working together to get him to manually on his own download a video into PowerPoint.