Go Mrs. Adams!

I was really impressed with our teacher, Mrs. Adams, this week. She used a smart board a couple times to teach math. When you first look in her room your first thought would not be "Oh, wow, she's got a lot of technological resources." But she totally just whipped it out the other day and I was like "Dude, where did this come from?" Anywho, the best quality of the smart board is that she can stand anywhere in the classroom and still use the computer, switching slides, drawing on the screen and pointing out to the students what she wants them to focus on. Then on Election Day, she pulled up this kid-friendly website all about the election. The kids loved it and where really able to learn about the country without the teacher having to put together this huge presentation.

Hallie and I also taught this week. Hallie put together this freaking amazing powerpoint (everyone was asking for it later, you should totally ask her about it), that showed the kids the part-whole concept of fact families and adding and subtracting. Then we played a jeopardy game at the end of the lesson using a template Hallie found online. It worked out really well. The only thing that would have been better is if we would have had the remote to the computer for the powerpoint. It confined Hallie to the side of her computer and I couldn't really help out because I would have just been in the way of the kids. That's also the benefit of the smart board, but we didn't have the technology installed on her computer. Plus we would have had no idea how to use it and would have looked insanely ridiculous. Well at least the kids would have laughed. . . wouldn't have gone over too well with our observers though.