I am reading
Teaching in the Digital Age for part of my professional development. This week’s chapters were about Projectors
(i.e. Smartboards) and Using Audio Recordings to Capture Powerful Moments. Two things I have in my classroom so I was
very excited about the chapters. I have
had a smartboard in my classroom for about six years now and sometimes I tend
to do the same activities. I have i-pads
in my classroom as well and I know I am not using them to their fullest
potential.
Chapter
3 Rethinking Projectors
If you do not have
a smartboard this chapter is for you. B.
Puerling gives lots of reasons why you need a smartboard in your classroom and
you can use those points to write a proposal.
He gives some basic suggestions of how to you the projectors in the
classroom without much training. He
writes about placement of the projector in your classroom as well. Great
chapter for beginners.
Chapter
4 Using Audio Recording to Capture
Powerful Moments
B. Puelring
provides several ideas of how to use audio recordings to support learning. My time is always precious to me in first
grade. I pack a lot into my learning day
so I am looking for ways to enhance what we already do, one idea I found in
this chapter was enhancing the listening center. This year my listening center was stories on
the ipad. However I know I could do
more. I do have stories on CD and
believe it or not cassette tapes too. First
graders could handle it. I think I will
set that old school stuff up. B.
Puelring wrote about a website, www.onemorestory.com. I went to check it out and it looks cute and
easy to navigate. I am thinking of
buying a subscription for the year.
As I read this
chapter it reminded me that I did have the children record themselves reading
on the ipad when I purchased my first one.
However it was hard to do, I ended up spending a lot of time during
recess helping children record themselves.
I noticed the children did not watch the videos. So I am not sure it was worth the time.
Another cute idea
was publishing class songs. That is
something I may want to investigate more.
Actually I would like to find out more about posting reader’s theater.
So those are my
thoughts for this week’s chapters….something to think about.
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