Thrusday blogs 8-5-10 Rmorgan

Session one....Interactive Classrooms.



A very good session where the practical intergration of white boards, elmo, computers and internet were introduced to the instructors. It was a great session maily because the presenter was realy enthusiastic about what he did. His system of choice was a very simple system that can be extremely mobile, versitile, and extremly portable system that doesnt rely on an "electronic" white board. This system will work on a simple wall, dry erase board or even an older pull down screen.



Session two....Formative assesments in a virtual mathmatics classroom.



Gave reasons for the need of increased and more immediate feedback for students, equity of work, and potential to reduce faculty workloads. I attended this workshop mainly because in electronics the majority of work in the front end of the class are learning Ohm's Law, Kirchoff's Law, and XL and XC formulas. She had a great point about when we are loosing students in lower levels because of bad math practices and bad math teachers.

Session three... Using Prometheus for math in the k-8 classroom.

Actualy I was walking by and some cute teacher who was giving the presentation told me that I needed to be in here, so I went in. What the heck I say. Was actually pretty good and I did get an idea of allowing my students to do tommorrows math as a homework assignment the night before so they can have more time for hands on work instead of doing "book work" then doing hands on. That way the student gets an input on the class flows and would give a student a bit of motivation to come to class knowing that he will be in the lab area where they absolutly love to stay.


What a week, would like to thank everyone for being my family away from home. Have had a blast with everyone and appreciate all the help and team work from each and every one of you.