Dormant Technology

I have been thinking this week and pondering how little I have seen technology used in the classroom. Every classroom I have been in has had an active board, but I have yet to see it taken advantage of. In talking to these teachers about their active boards, I found that they didn't feel comfortable with all of the different attributes of the board to use it with their classes. They also expressed frustration over the fact that when they have tried incorporating the boards, something went wrong and resetting the machine didn't work. My thoughts lie in trying to think about how to educate myself so that I have the knowledge to integrate the active board on a regular basis and am able to resolve unexpected issues that may arise.

I realize that technology is an everchanging tool that we have to better instruction and provide students with challenging learning opportunities. How can we not use these valuable tools? As an education student, what steps can I take to ensure that I will be prepared? I feel slightly overwhelmed by all of the options available in the technology world. I can see where the teachers I mentioned earlier reach a point of frustration that causes them to neglect the use of technology. I also can see that we are asking our students to constantly be challenging themselves. Is technology my constant challenge?

Pizza dough recipe

Pizza Crust

1 c. Flat beer 2 Tbsp. butter
2 Tbsp. Sugar 1 tsp. salt
2 ½ c. flour 1 pkg. yeast

Dissolve yeast in bear. Place sugar over beer. Mix the rest and let rise until double. Brush with vegetable oil. Cook till golden brown @ 350°

Video used for 7th Grade poetry intro

This was used to introduce poetry to my 7th grade dyad...

The-Simpsons-The-Raven

Test Movie

Cool Middle School Tech Project

Check out this link from Room 9:

http://schools.shorelineschools.org/room9/Ballard/Poems/A-R/Alessandro.html

The 6th-8th grade students wrote a preposition poem, then using GarageBand, PowerPoint, and iMovie they put it all together and published thier work!!

What we are doing!

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So, whats this blog all about?

So, what are we blogging about? Tech stuff? tech stuff we see in the classroom? I'm ready to start!

Recipe

I think that flat beer recipe should be on the site so we can all try it out!