Barnett this week

The attitudes I noticed this week in the classroom were about the same as last week, which is a positive one. The students all try to finish their centers as quickly as possible in order to use the computer to play the reading and math games we have in the classroom. We had to establish that once you have used the computer once that week you cannot use it again until the next week. The sollution for this... buy more computers!!
This week I taught a lesson using technology. It was simple power-point that had a movie clip incorperated into it. I taught about problem/sollution. Unfortunatly the lesson did not work out how I desired. Four teachers and the principle tried to help me to get the projector to work, but to no avail. We all could not figure it out. Finally it worked for a second, but then it turned right back off. My lesson was not completely ruined though because I just told them that it was problem... I asked, "how can we solve this problem"? I learned we all need to learn more about technology though.
I did have some ideas this week about how we can use technology in the classroom. I thought that using a powerpoint presentation during guided reading would be a good idea. I also realized that I could use google earth to teach the children about geology. Yay for technology!!