TPACK Project - Planning

Language Arts Lesson Plan:
http://docs.google.com/View?id=df9hdm8b_2ccmt4vfw

Science Lesson Plan:
http://docs.google.com/View?id=df9hdm8b_4c8v5mcdt

Math Lesson Plan:
http://docs.google.com/View?id=df9hdm8b_3h8q796hp

Week 11

I watched the videos "Bookends of War" & "Inside the Kapunahala"

Week 10

After watching the videos I was impressed with the teachers' variety of technology used. I really liked in the "I Love Spiders" one that the children were able to collaborate with other children doing the same thing in another state. That helped the children to see what spiders they had in common and which were different and allowed them to question why that might be. I really liked the idea of the children communicating with other students from other schools and states. I think this is a vary valuable teaching method and I am looking forward to taking ideas from these and implementing them in my classroom, so my students can get the most out of what they are learning.

Week 9 update

I have completed my midcourse evaluation and informed consent.

Classroom Technology Inventory

In visiting with a Kindergarten teacher at Amelia Earhart Elementary I was able to see that there are a lot of resources available for teachers, that I wouldn't have guessed. Amelia Earhart has always been pretty tech-savvy, and now that they have been changed to a Title I school they have received more funding and now have even more technological resources in the classroom. Each of the classes even has a Smart Board!

I talked to her a lot about the additional time that implementing technology requires. She was emphatic that the extra time was well worth it. The kids get so excited and really WANT to learn. Plus it is all things that you can keep in your inventory and use in later years.

I am actually really excited to implement technology into the classroom now. She gave me several examples of things she has actually used in her Kindergarten classroom and now I am able to think of several ways to incorporate technology into my lesson plans.