Final Meeting at Loyola Academy

Today was our final meeting with the Loyola students.
We got a chance to talk more about our final group project, and some of us talked about their individual project. We also shared our photobucket.com links with Mr.Gonzales and his students, in order for them to be able to create slide shows using our images.
I arrived at Loyola Academy an hour before the sixth hour class, because I wanted to meet more people at Loyola Academy for my individual project.I was able to take more pictures and videos, and collect some useful information for my project. I met with the special education teacher at Loyola Academy, and interviewed her.I also met with Ms.Gonzalez (the SALSA club coordinator) for a second time to get more photos and videos from her.

My pictures on photobucket

SLIDE SHOW OF ALL MY PICTURES ON PHOTOBUCKET

SALSA club scrapbook

Chavez Mural

Mr.Gonzales talking about the imags on Chavez Mural

Final project topic

We met with Mr. Gonzales class to decide on a topic for our final project. We, as a group, agreed on doing a project about one area in the south side. We wanted to do something that would be also interesting to the Loyola Academy students. So we decided to let the Loyola students pick. Mr. Gonzales wrote a long list for interesting places in the south side on the board, which was a combination of our suggestions, the student’s and Mr. Gonzales’s. After asking each student about their favorite location out of the ones on the board, they finally all agreed on trueskool. The students got excited that they get to leave school next week for a field trip to Chavez Mural, one of the projects done by trueskool.

Interview with Ms. Gonzalez

I made an appointment to meet with Ms. Gonzalez at Loyola Academy. Who is the current coordinator for the S.A.L.S.A. club there. I learned a lot about what S.A.L.S.A really is and how it has been benefiting the female students at Loyola Academy. Ms. Gonzalez started working with the S.A.L.S.A club as an intern from MATC. Now after she graduated she is a full time teacher at Loyola Academy. I was also fortune to meet with Ms Gonzalez’s assistant, who is now doing her internship at Loyola Academy. We discussed achievements and future goals of the S.A.L.S.A. club at Loyola Academy. There has been a lot of improvement done for the past two years, since Ms. Gonzalez started, to the S.A.L.S.A club. One major change will take place starting in Jan,2010 which is to make S.A.L.S.A a mandatory class period.