Wednesday, November 19, 2008

My Lesson

This week I actually did a lesson using technology. The kids are reading a book called "Skinnybones" but the problem is it's all about baseball but not one of the kids play baseball. So I put together a powerpoint that explained some of the vocab words they've had on pictures of things (a baseball diamond with centerfield labled with big arrows, etc.), and videos of abstract ideas (one of someone bunting, pitching and grounders). It went really well and with the use of a projector everyone was able to see it well.

Finally!

This last week I finally saw some technology being used in class. The kids went to the computer lab and were working on a program called PAWS that teaches them to type by playing games. It was great and the race car game was the best.

Friday, November 7, 2008

Practicum week 2

This week my mentor teacher actually did use technology to reinforce some math concepts. She used a program called Riverdeep and I think the students really enjoyed it. I decided I want to put together a powerpoint presentation about baseball to reinforce some of the new terms and ideas they are learning about in one of the books they are reading called Skinny Bones.