Monday, March 28, 2005
March 24 class was so fun!
March 24
This class was so much fun. Angles is an activity I would love to use with my 4th and 5th grade students. It would be an awesome review for students to help them practice recognizing acute and obtuse angles. It was awesome to be the first people to really try this out. It is amazing to me that someone can write a program like this in one night.
It was fun to look for the Easter eggs (hidden treasures or a feature in a program for people to find). I would so love to study the differences in brains between people who are not computer programmers to those are not. The computer programmer brain must be wired differently.
Quizzler can be used in so many ways. I loved the idea of using it for review for tests. I believe that students would be more apt to review longer if they could use the handhelds. Adding tic-tac-toe to Quizzler makes it fun for the students and adds another aspect to the review. Students not only have to learn the information for the test, but they also have to use different strategies in tic-tac-toe.
My favorite part of the class was downloading free software to use with the handhelds. I discovered so many activities that I can use with my students. Once we managed to get synced to the computers, it was easy to find freeware that elementary students can use. I was thrilled to find Checkbook to use with my students and their million dollar projects. Division, Easy Math, and Multiplication are super ways for students to practice their math. I plan on using Books Log with students to keep track of the books they read next year. It will especially work well with the Golden Sower books. I also look forward to introducing many of the applications to teachers to use for keeping track of grades and for students to keep track of assignments.
The more I learn about the possibilities of use with the handhelds, the more excited I get about introducing them in the elementary schools.
This class was so much fun. Angles is an activity I would love to use with my 4th and 5th grade students. It would be an awesome review for students to help them practice recognizing acute and obtuse angles. It was awesome to be the first people to really try this out. It is amazing to me that someone can write a program like this in one night.
It was fun to look for the Easter eggs (hidden treasures or a feature in a program for people to find). I would so love to study the differences in brains between people who are not computer programmers to those are not. The computer programmer brain must be wired differently.
Quizzler can be used in so many ways. I loved the idea of using it for review for tests. I believe that students would be more apt to review longer if they could use the handhelds. Adding tic-tac-toe to Quizzler makes it fun for the students and adds another aspect to the review. Students not only have to learn the information for the test, but they also have to use different strategies in tic-tac-toe.
My favorite part of the class was downloading free software to use with the handhelds. I discovered so many activities that I can use with my students. Once we managed to get synced to the computers, it was easy to find freeware that elementary students can use. I was thrilled to find Checkbook to use with my students and their million dollar projects. Division, Easy Math, and Multiplication are super ways for students to practice their math. I plan on using Books Log with students to keep track of the books they read next year. It will especially work well with the Golden Sower books. I also look forward to introducing many of the applications to teachers to use for keeping track of grades and for students to keep track of assignments.
The more I learn about the possibilities of use with the handhelds, the more excited I get about introducing them in the elementary schools.
# posted by Ann @ 4:41 PM 
