Ms. K and My Week

Ms. K is the most technological teacher I have met so far. She loves technology but is so limited by her resources because of budgets at this time. For her, the Smartboard has been too much trouble and other teachers hogged the use of it when it was in the room with access by all teachers. Her students are actually less computer literate than she had expected. There were a ton of things on her wish list for Gnets, but her top priority is a scan converter. Her idea for our project would be to create a Morning Message which is what they do every morning. I have seen several of these done before, and I believe we can come up with really fun interactive ways to introduce the date and have some problems for math or vocabulary on the board to get the students thinking in the mornings. Simple concepts like a b c order and word families are appropriate for her class. A calendar could be really cool, too. She introduced me to the possibility of a Sony Smartboard on which I need to do some research. I gave her a level 1 at this point only because of her lack of access to learn the technology well enough to use all of the functions.


I also taught the computer class with Dawn, and it is getting so full. I love teaching those classes because everyone seems to leave happy and proud of themselves. This was also my first week of working at the real center! It is really exciting to see what was just an idea in August. Now it is a fully operating program with many employees. The building looks amazing on the inside. We even have full staff meetings now. I am very encouraged by what I see Digital Bridges doing here in Milledgeville. I am also prepared and ready for lessons with the teachers from Group One on Monday of next week.

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