Week 2 Is Almost Over!

WOW!! I can't believe our field experience is almost over.... everyone sounds like they are having such a great time and I am so excited for everyone! Our schedule has been a little crazy, but it is getting better (now that it's almost over!) Anyway, Kellie and I are having a good experience. We began our unit yesterday (Wednesday) and we had WAY too much material for our time limit ~ I always worry about running out of things, so I often over plan. We had to do some cramming and let them have homework, but it went okay. Today was much better with our timing. We are covering the Pioneers and our final GRASP assessment for next week is a Newscast. We are going to video them and let them watch themselves the next day. They seem really excited to do the news and wondered if they would really be on TV!! I understand everyone's frustration with the whole technology part of our field experience. I was not too upset about not being able to show my Digital Story, because I had made my movie on the Ute Indians (we didn't know what unit we would be teaching at the time) ((you can check it out below my last post)) so it didn't really tie into the Pioneers, however, if I had made one to go with our unit, I would have been frustrated as the movie won't play on the teachers laptop and projector. Also, we have learned so many fun things in this Technology class, that I would like to try and apply in the classroom, but let's face it, one computer class a week for 35 minutes, doesn't allow you much time for experimenting with technology! Oh well, like I said in my last post, maybe by the time we have our own classrooms, we'll all have laptops and smartboards, so we will be able to better utilize the things we have learned! I hope everyone continues to have a great experience..... learn lots and we'll see you all in a week or so!!!