It used to be so simple to teach school.....just show up with your paper and pencil, erase the old chalk board and break out the purple ink and ditto machine....
Ah, how technology has changed this techno-challenged teacher!!
Let me introduce you to these new additions to our classrooms....
The Proxima (or the Computer projector)
The Elmo (or the Document Camera)
I knew the words would help - It's the Smart Board - a touch friendly/computer board that sits next to the white board!! You can write on it but no magnets please!!
And this last little guy - my new phone - the Droid X. I am so under-utilizing this baby and it's killin' my kids. But I can now text and I've answered ONE phone call. (If only more people would call...) No really, I can check my blogs whenever I want, look up vital information for where we should go out to eat and who won the Nobel Prize in 2001. Who cares if I know the difference between an app and a widget or how to set up my emails in three new folders all categorized by place and color....geez! Seriously, but I'm really looking forward to teaching math this year with technology - - we are planning on using these...
LEGOS!!
Finally an old friend I feel I know and understand....
Hold on to your hats, I think this is going to be a real wild ride.....
PS. Just to let you know, I am still comfortable teaching with just a paper and a pencil....if anyone is asking :)
