Internet Safety

For this assignment I talked with my parents. I told them about the Frontline videos we watched. My dad remembered seeing this before. I reminded him about what it talked about. We talked about how people just need to be aware of the dangers. He also told me about what he has noticed at home with the kids in our town. He noticed how they usually use the internet for mainly socializing. Kids are loosing their social skills because they are socializing online instead of in person. It was good to talk to my parents and their thoughts on how kids need to be careful and not be on it constantly.

Learn from Presentations

One thing that I learned from other people's presentations is that even though there is little technology in the classroom, you can still use technology very effectively. If you only have one computer or one set of technology equipment, you can still have students take turns and use the technology. This is an important thing I learned from watching other people's presentations of their technology lesson.

Internet Safety

I chose to read Leave it Alone by Elder H. Burke Peterson. The most important thing I learned from this article was to just stay away from the appearance of evil. The best way to stop problems from the media is to just stay away from the bad stuff in the first place. It drives the spirit away so quickly that you can not make good decisions because the spirit can't be with you. What I have read will affect me because I will be more aware of the content of the media around me and my students. I can use what I have read by modeling how to just stay away from inappropriate media. Prevention is the best. If something is inappropriate I will model that we must get rid of it, stay away. Staying away will influence my family and friends for good by helping them stay away as well.

Technology Lesson Presentation

Technology Integration

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My Technology Lesson

So far, I have used technology in about half of my lessons. In my classroom I have a Smart Board to work with which is heavenly! I usually create a PowerPoint and do an overlay of it so I can write on the slides with the Smart Board. One of my favorite lessons with the Smart Board has been my math lesson for adding 3-digit numbers. I had a variety of problems on the Smart Board and the students and I solved them. I demonstrated once and then called on students to come up and show us how to solve the problem. It was great because their was no clean up, I could have the problems already ready to solve, and the students were able to come up and help me solve. I pretty much Love the Smart Board!

Technology Enhanced Lesson

So, I don't know about everyone else, but I am in love with the Smart Board! It is so cool and comes in so handy for lessons. I have already used it several times as a huge portion of my lesson. One idea that I haven't used yet, but I might use some time is this:

Matching Game!
You can use the Smart Board for a matching game in your lesson. This would be a great review for whatever you are teaching. Using the Smart Board, have students come up and move the boxes that are hiding your matches. When they find a match they can move the boxes together or just out of the way. There are so many possibilities with this idea. You could hide words, sentences, pictures, links, what ever under, and have students move to find the answers. You could make this as easy or as hard as you want! Endless possibilities with this one idea!

Classroom Technology Inventory

I learned much by doing my Technology Inventory. I learned that students have much access to technology. They rotate about once a week in centers to use the computers in the classroom to enhance their learning. They also work on the computers on a set schedule. An important technology that is used everyday, several times a day, is the Smartboard. The teacher uses it in her lessons and the students have many opportunities to come up to the board and work on it as well.
I also learned that the school has 4 mobile computer carts. They rotate between classrooms and have all of the programs that MACs normally have on them as well as several programs that the school uses. They have a tech person and 2 assistants as well to help teachers and students with tech stuff. I'm really impressed with the technology in my school!