So far I have noticed that she uses her smart board frequently. She uses it during her morning meeting and allows students a chance to interact with it as well. The students seem to really enjoy their chances to use the smart board and this helps keep the students engaged and behaving, because when a student isn't fallowing the rules they are not called on to use the board.
The CT also teaches using a lot of videos. She uses them for many different things, like teaching the days of the week, months of the year, the alphabet and lots of other information as well. This seems to work great with the students, they appear to pay more attention to the fun and animated videos and they remember the songs used, and I believe the information in them as well. The videos are also used to help students be active or to relax. She has several videos that entourage dancing, allowing the children to get the wiggles out and be ready for more learning. She also plays a video during students rest time helping them calm down after lunch. The videos seem to work for many purposes an are entertaining as well.
I bet the use of the Whiteboard is helping reinforce some of the information we have picked up in IM. I would like to use various forms of technology in my classroom more often. We use the Whiteboard for MeMoves. Heard of it? The students love it and are completely engaged. Much more so than during morning meeting where the squirminess and wiggles seem to control and distract many students. I think our class would benefit from more interaction with the WB or video. That being said, we do utilize audio, but even now after a week, I am seeing that I could include some of my music for variation.
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