Exit Slip 12/9

To start this day off rather confused because there is no week 14 agenda on D2L.  There is a link, but it goes literally nowhere.  Well ok, it actually goes to an empty google site.

In my middle school math classroom I would like to integrate an interactive whiteboard and possibly a SMARTTable so my students can have a more hands on way to learn their geometry than just drawing the angles on a chalkboard.  I would hope to be able to create more interactive games to make the subject more entertaining to the students.  I would use a networking site such as twitter, blogger, and/or wikispaces to list homework, answer homework questions and post notes for students to have access to outside of class.  I as a former student at that age has gone ahead and left out notes that I realized I needed later outside of school and did not have access to a secondary means of attaining important notes other than calling a friend/classmate.  Since I would like to use an interactive whiteboard (SMARTBoard) I would like to also create screencasts of the SMARTBoard lectures (if you would like to call them that in middle school) to post on my blogger site for students who were absent from class or even for my substitute to use in my absence.  Of course, being like 10 years from now I'll be asking Professor Boyer during Ella's parent teacher conference about newer technologies that I may have not been keeping track of as much as him.

I am really bummed over the changes that were "wikileaked" to us about changes not only to this class but also to our Professional Portfolio.  The changes on the book would've really helped me to complete the tasks on time without having to scramble to fix all the posts.

When I originally thought of technology in the classroom I really thought of the media of projector screens, televisions, calculators, and computers and really not about what is being used on them.  After going through this class I have learned probably more resources and got to try a new technologies I never would have heard of or tried before.  My new best friend is probably SMARTResourses with its collection of lesson plans on there.  Prior to this class I had one professor at University of Wisconsin Marshfield/Wood County who used the SMARTBoard as a whiteboard than for its actual resources.