Field+Based+Activities+May

This was another busy month! I have been following the web communities of Classroom 2.0 and PBS Teachers for a couple of months and took the time to participate in a couple of the discussion boards. These were useful in offering ways to incorporate technology in the classroom and ways to use technology with my ESL students. I also spent much of this year working as the curriculum writer for our fifth graders that attend summer school. I had found many different options for incorporating technology into the curriculum to benefit the students and be cost effective to the district, so I met with the district Math Coordinator and one of our technology facilitators to see about presenting this information to the summer school teachers at our inservice before the session began. We were unable to set the playlist of videos I had bookmarked on Safari Montage to the district level, so I ran a copy of the list to include in the curriculum for the teachers to use. My next task was to create an end-of-year presentation for the two classes that were now without teachers in fourth grade. I had requested the teachers send me all the pictures they took before they left and asked the subs to please take pictures and send them to me. I also visited throughout the months to collect pictures. I spent this week using Windows Movie Maker and music from Soundzabound to create the show we presented the last day. My final task this month was to visit the FETC conference online. I was able to participate in a couple of online discussions about the need for continued school partnerships to cupport technology integration. I presented this information to my site mentor and asked about ways we could improve the technology integration at our campus. See the links for this month's report.