Journal 6-Assisting Gabbi With Photos

One of my group members decided to purchase a number of disposable cameras to give to our students. She asked the students to take pictures of objects, places, or people that played a significant role in their lives. Her component of the group project entailed creating mini self-portraits for each student. Not everything goes as planned when working with high school students at such different levels of concern for education, and to no surprise we did not see some cameras return. On the other hand, we were lucky enough to have students that had their own digital cameras, which delivered us higher quality images and spared us the tedious task of scanning. Regardless, we got a lot of great images that helped us get a better understanding of who these young adults are outside of the classroom. I was impressed to see such a high percentage of the students participate in the activity we asked them to. I definitely feel that if this had been a task we placed on the students during the first day, we would've gotten much less participation due to the lack of trust building that occurred this semester.