Thursday, February 12, 2009
2/12/09 Class
I thought today's class was very helpful. The site thinkfinity.org will be extremely useful when deciding what activities we can implement in our classrooms. Not only are there sites for every content area, there is also a site for lesson plans based on NYS standards. This could be very helpful to ensure that we are staying in line with the standards that NYS mandates. The activities that are available are really endless and these sites could help someone find ones that will be helpful to their specific needs. In my fieldwork I last semester, I observed a teacher who used a smartboard and an interactive museum site, which showed the houses that most of the poor lived in during the early 1900's. This site among others could have possibly been found on one of these sites and ended up being a very interesting lesson. The Intel for education site seems like it would also be very useful, because some of the tools seemed like they could be used in a variety of different content areas.
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The interactive museum site was very very neat. It was like paying an arm and a leg for one of those interactive museum visits with the head sets and tour guides...for free!
ReplyDeleteWhat interactive museum was it? I'm sure when you have a little more time you will find many more ideas to use in the classroom.
ReplyDeleteThe interactive museum sounds like a great idea for virtually taking students back to the past. I wonder if schools will invest in that sort of technology as field trips become more costly and difficult to arrange with liability issues and all.
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