I think my lesson with technology went well today! Even though I was disappointed that the wireless mouse that I had been given didn't function properly, the kids were super pumped about coming up to my computer to click the answer choices for the questions from our "interactivity". Kids who have NEVER volunteered before were eagerly waving their hands, wanting to come up and try out a problem! It was awesome to have so many kids wanting to participate. I think they especially liked the sound effects that the program made after they submitted their answers. It makes a ding if correct and buzz noise if wrong, and also when it's wrong a hint comes up. I hope to give the class a little taste of what this “interactivity” is like when I give my presentation. I hope to put some screen shots from it into my power point, but maybe I can link to the actual website and show that for a moment as well.

I felt bad about my 4th hour kids who were deprived by not getting the cool technology version of the lesson plan.  They probably chatted with the first hour kids who got it and were bummed that their lesson wasn’t quite as cool.