In Survival Mode

Over a month into school, and technology continues to be a challenge. We are promised projectors by November, but I am leary as to whether that is truly going to happen. Again and again in my instruction, I find myself thinking that activities would be so easier without the overhead projector and being able to use a digital projector.
However, it is easy for us to get stuck in our ways, so I need to be ready and prepared for the change when it comes. I need to become more familiar with the programs of Smart Notebook and Inspiration. Both of those things I could be using now if I was familiar and fluent with them but that hasn't happened yet. When is there time to sit and play around with computer software? It seems that sleep and lesson planning takes precedence. I am hoping that others feel the same.

Technology a Little Lacking

I just completed my Technology Inventory, and not only did I feel that Oakland really doesn't have much to offer me, but what they do have I am not familiar with. And even worse than that, what they do offer to me I am not familiar with. I wrote in my inventory that I have Smart Notebook and Inspiration, both great software programs, but neither do I know much about. I need to find some time and sit down and tinker with them, figure out their ins and outs, and how it runs, but I just don't know when that time is going to come. The fact is that I have to make it if I want it to happen. And with that amongst everything else, I don't know where it will fit. Too many things to think about all on top of one another. Until then, I will be thankful that I have email and try to start letting kids graph their own comprehension progress online with the website edcheckup.com that I was granted access to. This technology journey is definitely going to be interesting!