Blog Journal 10

As a teacher, I will use excel to calculate grades for a fourth grade classroom, rather than a pen and paper spreadsheet. I would also use excel for attendance to see who was in class and who wasn't and how many absences or tardies a certain child has. Excel calculates that type of stuff without the teacher, me, having to do any of the calculations or counting by hand.
Through my classmates' blogs I learned how they viewed the class and how they decided to attack these blog assignments. The most interesting part was looking at everybody's first ILP because there were so many different directions that this project could've gone and it was interesting to see how everybody handled it. I also found it interesting to see all the different tools that my classmates would use in the teaching environment through the Teacher Productivity blogs because everybody has a different teaching style and it is fun to see what type of teachers my classmates will be.
I would like to master everything there is to know about SMART Boards and Prometheus boards in a classroom setting. It is necessary for me to have these skills as a teacher because more likely than not I will have to use one of these types of boards in my classroom and it will be beneficial to know all the outs and ins before going into the profession. I will attempt to accomplish this by heading to the Sandbox here at FSU and working with the professional tech people in there so they can help me become more equipped to work with the boards.

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