Second week of Practicum

What a whirlwind this whole experience in the schools is. Whew! Throughout this week I've kept my eyes open for different ways our teacher uses technology. The fact that she has a projector and document viewer in her room definitely helps. Technology definitely plays a part in our classroom. She uses those two things for almost everything. It helps out so much. Like this week she was showing them how to draw a turkey for a little Thanksgiving activity and she was able to just put it up there on the document viewer to show the kids instead of trying to use the chalkboard.The document viewer is great for modeling things to students, you can also use it when teaching cursive. Miss Utah came to our school this week and presented a presentation on internet safety. She used a projector and a power point type presentation. There was a little bit of technical difficulty, but overall it turned out well. I've noticed some teacher shy away from using technology, why I'm not sure. Maybe they're afraid it will be too complicated? I don't know.

This week Marcie and I taught a music lesson where we taught about the treble clef and staff, etc. We used the document viewer to show how to draw the notes on the lines and spaces and to label them. It really helped out because all of the kids were able to see on the projector screen instead of trying to see through us while using the chalkboard. So far my assessment on technology in the classroom is two thumbs up!