The Technology Battle Continues

So in 2 of my 3 classrooms projectors have been installed. It's really exciting, we've been using them a lot, but I'm realizing how much more time and effort it takes to bring technology into the classroom. I've spent hours looking at videos, commercials, and film clips online and then to struggle with what aspects of the curriclum I can bring them in for, how we're going to use it, and what angle we're going to talk about it from. Like we've talked about in class, I want to use technology to enhance students' learning, not just to use it. And enhancement of learning through technology takes time. I'm starting small, but I also want to utilitize this awesome tool I've been given to it's utmost capacity.

The Projector is In

It happened on Thursday- I walked in and the tech guy was installing it. I was so excited, but at the same time almost kind of dreading it. Today the teacher I team-teach with just stood there kind of looking at it like, what are we supposed to do with this thing now? We have years and reems of paper to use for overheads, and in an ideal world they would all be transferred to electronic for use on the projector- not gonna happen. It's almost overwhelming or daunting to think about it. Makes me think of an exerpt we read in Tomlinson for Pullis' class- start small. Don't try to take it all on or you will be so overwhelmed. You have to make it manageable. We decided that we're going to make sure warm-ups are always on the projector and we already have some videos we want to create. After that, we're going to try to do one major component of each unit on the projector, and after that what we can get done. Seems easy enough. I just want to utilize this thing as best we can. We'll see how that goes.