End of Day Reflection

I am experiencing information overload right now. There are so many amazing things that can be done using technology, and I want to remember them all, but without time to work and play I know they will be gone shortly. I love the Word Clouds. I am already planning on how to best use this for developing character traits. I also like the memory games and am trying to figure out a time in the schedule when my students can do these activites. Yay Mozilla...any possibility of Google Chrome? So much to move to my long term memory...gonna get on it now.

Session 2....

....for most, but session 1 for me.

My SmartBoard is used daily in my room, all day long. This week it was used for vocabulary development. Students worked in groups to create Thinking Maps to demonstrate understanding of vocabulary words. Each Thinking Map contained: their definition, dictionary definition, synonyms, antonyms, a sentence and a picture of each word. Once the work was completed, they would go up to the Smart Board, create their circle maps and share them with the class. Within that single lesson my students used graphic organizers, they compared and contrasted, we integrated technology into the lesson and worked in small groups. Every week is a lesson for me in new ways to use the Smart Board. The kids are learning as quickly as I am, and in many ways they are teaching me as well.