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 * __Reflection for March 6th and 8th__**

This week we reached a milestone that both Miguel and I were eagerly looking forward to, finishing the rough draft packet so that we could move onto working with the iPad. At the beginning of our session on Tuesday, we finished drawing and finding the pictures. Although I had asked Miguel to consider what pictures he felt were “missing” from our presentation, he had not come up with any additional suggestions, so I offered a few up. We presented our rough draft to Ms. Roscioli and received the green light to begin on the iPad. On the iPad, we have all of the text entered and the pictures for at least four pages. Also, we have all of the voice recordings done. Next we will need to add all of the imported pictures and make sure we have the citations for all of those images.

Tuesdays are always more scattered and less focused, inherently because I think we both know there is less time and we are concerned about getting enough done. As previously mentioned, Miguel did not complete the pseudo-assignment that I gave him to consider over the weekend. This did not slow us down or hinder our work, but I did find it disappointing that he didn’t put that effort in. Additionally, we experienced a technical difficulty with our iPad, it had a weird setting that I had never seen before that distorted all of the display, making white space black and making the pictures look like thermal images instead of having their actual coloring. This was a challenge because it broke up our already choppy flow. Despite those issues, we were able to finish and get the rough draft approved and create the title page on the Storykit. Thursday was much more smooth and we were able to complete a lot of work.

I don’t know if it was necessarily anything that I did, but Miguel did a much better job this week of getting right to work and not playing around with the iPad and talking to friends for the few five minutes of our time together. Our personalities gelled more and I felt less like I had to “nag” to get him to work. I was supportive by joining in on his excitement and motivation surrounding the iPad. He did a very good job of working with me to get the rough draft finished. I have a similar goal for improvement as I did last week, having Miguel take more of the reins. I am not sure how much he should be doing and how much I should be doing, but I do know that there are moments when I feel like I am spoon feeding him ideas or answers, instead of waiting it out and letting him struggle and brainstorm up something to contribute.

This week I plan to prepare him for next week when I won’t be with him. Unfortunately, I do not think that I can leave Miguel with many tasks to accomplish in my absence, so I think the list will have to be quite short. With that said, this week will need to be a big week, in terms of work, for us. I am very confident that we can get the bulk of the work done. It will be a challenge for me to find tasks that Miguel will be motivated to do when I am gone and will be simple or straightforward enough that he doesn’t get confused or overwhelmed, and give up. Tuesday I will write down the sources of our pictures and on Thursday I will come with the citations. Typing up those citations, as well as the others, may be one of (or the only) tasks I give Miguel for the week that I am on spring break.