Lesson+Plan

The last project we have done in class besides the webpage is the teaching experience and lesson plan, which pretty much culminates everything that we have learned and applies it in a classroom setting. I have chosen to use the electronic whiteboard as one of the technologies featured in mine. Its a really cool tool that allows students to use a special pen and "write" their ideas on the projection screen. While this is equivalent to writing on the chalk or whiteboard, the fact that its electronic and a new technology will get students wanting to come up and volunteer and play with the new technology. From this tool I have learned that not only do technologies in the classroom help the teaching and learning process up to date and at its highest potential, newer things just keep students eager to learn and paying attention. I also chose to use a power point to teach the different ways of a comma, and chose to print out the powerpoint slides so that the students can follow along with the lesson and jot down side notes on the packet of slides, worrying less about writing whats on the board, which helps them focus more on what I will be teaching them. My last technique will be having the students post their "ticket out" via blackboard so that they can comment on each others and make corrections to each others sentences if need be.There homework would be to peer edit each others sentences. This way students can help each other out using this new technology with out taking anyway teaching time away from class.