Topic 9: Instructional Technology Example

I would like to use this instructional technology example to describe what the students in my class will be doing in the upcoming weeks.

I recently participated in the Limeades for Learning project. This was a partnership between Sonic and DonorsChoose to fund teachers in need of various supplies for their classrooms. I wrote a grant for a class set of flash drives. This would allow my students to work on numerous technology projects in our school computer lab and them take the flash drives home to continue working on their projects. I was very excited to find out that my grant was funded and recently received the flash drives.

In my 3rd grade classroom, we take a reading skill each week and teach the students how to understand vocabulary associated with it, analyze the story to find it, and answer questions correctly involving questions on it. I plan to start incorporating technology by having students construct their own meanings of the skills in various programs, such as word, powerpoint, or photostory.

This week we will be studying sequencing. I will begin on Monday by teaching the students what the word sequencing means and other vocabulary that is associated with this skill. Then Tuesday through Thursday I will continue to demonstrate the skill of sequencing. Finally on Friday, I will have the students demonstrate their knowledge of sequencing by completing a technology project in the computer lab. I will prepare by loading a PhotoStory onto each students flash drive. The PhotoStory will be slides with various events from our story that have been all mixed up. As an assessment tool, the students will have to rearrange the slides in the PhotoStory so that the story is properly sequenced and then save and turn the file into a movie for grading.