Picocrickets

My group and I made a ballerina dancer picocricket. There was a sensor light attached to the dancer and the dancer spun in a circle. To make the ballerina have a light and spin became quite difficult. It was frusterating to try to make the program work on the computer. At times it would work and others it would not, but figuring out the problem was difficult because we did not know what we were doing wrong. Luckily while showing it to the class it worked. I think this would be a great tool to use in the classroom but in order to use it I would need a lot more instruction. I was not familiar with the tool so making it work was hard for me. I do not think I would want to use this in a lower level (kindergarten and first grade) unless I had other people helping me because I know I would need a lot of help to guide all of my students with it. Although it may be difficult to instruct something like this I think it would be very beneficial and fun to use in the classroom, I would just need to become more familiar with it.