The Second Week

In the second week during the schools there was a lot more time and experience with technology. My teacher used her overhead projector to do a math lesson. She used the geometric boards and she would show examples on the board and then have the students create their own shapes. I thought this was a great way to use technology. She was able to demonstrate what she expected for the whole class to see using the tools they would be using and then she could leave up the examples and walk around to see what the students were doing. She could invite students up to put their shapes on the board for the whole class to see. I thought this was a great tool to use in a Math lesson. We didn't do much with the overhead in math but we did use it to project a song that we taught the students about rhyming words. It was really fun and it worked well. The students could all see and we could make highlights on the overhead as we went along. I really like using overhead projectors in the classroom. The only thing I didn't really like about using the overhead is that with the way her room was set up it was difficult for some students to see the screen. The students were allowed to move to another desk but that was hard because they had to go back to their desk to get materials they needed to do the activity. If this was my classroom I would try to arrange the desks in a way that would allow me to use the project without having to move the students.