Presentations: Day 2

I thought presentations for today went pretty well. Jess's topic on co-ed dorms is interesting particularly because it affects all college students whether we realize it does or not. Her power point went well and I think, with her ideas, her paper will also turn out well. Greg's presentation was also interesting. I think the class was shocked with how many people in the U.S don't know where Louisiana is. It would be great if Greg included eye opening facts like that in his paper in order to get his point across. Lisa's presentation also proved to be an attention grabber. She asked the class questions which really helped in getting the class to discuss her topic. I think if she includes research from articles about new ways or ideas for incorporating learning disabled children into general education classes it would help with her paper a lot. I know that at my school incorporating learning disabled students into classes with other kids was difficult. At the high school level, a lot of learning disabled students can't keep up with certain classes like chemistry or higher level history, sometimes even art. It's unfortunate, and I feel that allowing impaired students to go to regular classes does permit them to experience the same things as everybody else for once. At the same time, I know of a few teachers that were frustrated at the fact that they had to give learning disabled students more of their time and effort, which may have already been spread tightly enough as it was.