Friday, March 11, 2011

Merit Week 21

Another great week for Technology in Room 28.  The external drive arrived!  I hooked it up and backed up my mac machine.  My students flash drives arrived as well.  I am putting a label with their name on each one.  I also plan to have them stored in a box, which I can lock up each night for security.  My students are very excited.

I am set up to scan all their work in to their electronic portfolio but don't know how to set it up.  I don't know where to ask for help on this.  I am having trouble finding the time to discover this on my own.  So if you know someone who can help me let me know!  Thanks!

Again I set my students loose on google presentations.  They went wild and love it.  I recorded the presentations being made and need to learn how to make a video where I can speed up the action.  Can anyone help with this project?  I did interview my students about what they like best about technology in room 28.  It is so cute.  Now I just need to find the time to make the movie...

The facebook mathematician project was a bomb.  My students do not work during class time.  I gave them four days to work on it in class.  My room is open before and after-school and at lunch.  Not one of my students made it a page to show on the projector.  OF my 16 students, four actually made the page but printed it out.  They gave oral presentations which were lacking content and purpose.  I did give an example and let my students tape me, talking about Albert Einstein.  So to do this project again, I will have them print out sources and have an aid or myself highlight where the information should go.  I think they need more structure on how to do a report.

On Friday, we finished reading chapter 2 of Hatchet and many of my students requested I make a Google form so they could write down their chapter details  online versus their notebook.  This is great for me because at one glance I can tell if they have comprehension of the story versus looking at 15 different notebooks.

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