I am a Marine Biology teacher, therefore I read the chapter for Integrating Technology in the Science Classroom. I learned a lot! Some things I am already doing, which makes me feel good, and other things I learn to do, which makes me excited!
I like the stories from practice. The first one I read was incorporating technology into the labs. I don't know why, but I never thought to incorporate technology to the labs. (I have used them for many other things, though!) He also gave each person a specific job. I like this idea, too. I let my juniors and seniors pick their own lab partners, but I think it would be neat to have a project where students had a specific job to create one final lab.
As I look at my goals for integrating technology into my classroom I am pleased with my actions so far. My blogs are up and running, and my students are excited about them! It makes me smile when I get to school and a student runs up to me and says, "Ms. Shrift did you see my blog? It is really neat! Did you read it, did you read it?" And these are students I never saw excitement in before! (Plus they are 'cool' high school students.) Their research blogs were due October 5. That was the first assignment on their blog. Hopefully within the next 2 weeks I will have the weekly discussions started! That is my next goal.
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Leah,
ReplyDeleteAdding technology to student learning outside of school can be so rewarding. On my Webpage there are links for student practice in math and social studies. The are fun, yet productive ways ways to review material from the classroom. Students periodically come into my classroom first thing in the morning and share their finding and success with these activities. It is nice to know they follow through ad use the tools. How many kids come up to you and let you know they did their homework? Glad your students are eager to blog and share their enjoyment with you.
My students' feelings towards blogging was not very exciting... until they got to the computer lab! Many told me it was either a 'really cool facebook' or 'a facebook and myspace combined'! They really got excited during class which was nice to see... and then so far I had 3 different students come to me when they added gadgets and such to their pages... plus one was using it to communicate with me for homework assignments... that was also cool!
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