Technology Reflections

I’ve been so bad about keeping up this blog. My intentions were to write about the day to day school stuff and then be able to look back and see how I evolved in my technology use. Right now I’m finding it hard enough to keep up with my day to day tasks of teaching 6 classes (4 preps!). Though I can’t complain – I love the classes I teach and I love the variety in my day. My day goes like this: 7th Grade Reading, 7th grade Computers, 7th Grade Reading, 8th Grade Computers, 7th Grade Reading, 6th Grade Computers.

In addtiion to teaching, I follow 57 blogs! I didnt realize how many until I mentioned Bloglines to my 8th grade computer class and I pointed out how many feeds I have.But if I didn’t read those feeds everyday, Iwould never have found a fabulous lesson plan to teach writing or the follow up plan. I did both of these plans with my 6th and 7th grade computer classes (I changed the pictures from the first PowerPoint). Both of those classes just happened to be starting projects that involved writing about pictures. Both classes loved the lessons – I think the use of the funny, engaging pictures really helped to keep their attention. The 6th graders, especially, appreciated the second lesson which broke the concept down more. I think The Reflective Teacher is an amazing teacher and I wish I could lure him (her?) to come teach at my school. In the meantime, I’ll just have to keep reading my blogs…..