We are very fortunate to have a technology enhanced classroom. Not only do we have a Promethean board, but we have many other cool tools to go along with it. Mrs. Owen has something called a slate that allows her to write on the Promethean board from any place in the room! It looks like a ghost is writing on the board sometimes, but we know better now. We are still puzzled how exactly this thing allows her to perform this magic trick, though.
The students also have some new gadgets to play with! Mrs. Owen set up the ActivExpression remotes yesterday, and both Mrs. Owen's and Mrs. Williams' classes got to use them during reading class. Mrs. Owen put questions on the board. Each student had a remote and everybody gets to punch in their answers. When everybody's answer is in, the board registers a poll to see what percentage of the class chose each answer choice. We then see if the majority of the class chose the correct answer. It is a great monitoring tool, and it keeps EVERY student tuned in to learning. The students also like to call the remotes their "cell phone" because you turn it on the same, it feels like you are sending a text message, and you have to press SEND to get the answer to go through! Too funny!
Jermirca, Justin, and Aaryan type in their answers
Mikayla chooses her answer on her remote
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Finally, we all know Mrs. Owen has her own voice enhancement microphone because we see it around her neck all day! But, our classroom is also equipped with a handheld microphone to enhance student voices as well. We used this microphone today in class to take turns reading aloud from our Imagine It! story. We get to look like rock stars while we read our stories! How awesome is that?!?!
Giovanni reads aloud to the class
Kristin reads aloud using the microphone
