Burke's First Class

September 28, 2009
I was visiting Centennial to take pictures. Ashok had passed out the media consent forms & told me that most of them would be in by Monday, so I wanted to get more photos for Nadia. Burke’s class had already started when I entered. The class is set up like a two level horseshoe with Burke’s desk at the center. The students all appear busy. I cruised around looking at what the students were doing with my camera ready. Since not all the students had turned in media forms, I asked each student before taking a photo of them, to make sure they had turned in their consent form.

All the students were very friendly, and happy to have me take their photo, but many of them were not working on Agentsheets. The first students I wanted to take a picture of were two girls. They were working together to create their game. Before I would take their picture I made them open up their game & start working on it. The agents were different than the usual ones for Frogger, so I asked them to describe their game to me. They had created the agents for a duck obstacle course … the duck being the main agent. The goal was to get the duck home. They had many ideas about the kinds of obstacles the duck would have to overcome for the player to win. However, they had not even started their worksheet & this was the second week of their instruction. I sat with them awhile hoping to inspire them. I took a few more photos before the class ended. Burke left as Mark Savignano was teaching the second section of students.