TE 401

This past week I had the opportunity to work in a 6th grade classroom for most of the day. This is where I will be observing for the remainder of the semester for my TE 401 class. The first day I was able  to observe the students working on a government project. They were creating "branches of government trees." The subject is still fairly new to the students, so it was interesting to see how their knowledge of the subject grew during that class period. It is my task to specifically observe social studies and science lessons. After several weeks, I am to teach my own lesson in the classroom. I have never had the opportunity to do that before. As usual when trying something new, I am a little nervous. I trust that I will end up learning a lot from the experience however.

New Technologies

In just the second week of the course I feel I've been introduced to a number of useful tools. This week we were introduced to delicious.com; a website that allows you to "bookmark" various sites for quick access later on. Not only does this site allow you to have access to useful websites quickly, but it also lets you "tag" the sites. This tagging helps organize the sites by their content. Already I have been able to view the sites of my classmates and have come across some great resources I would not have know about.

Hello World

Hi, my name is Chelsea. I am a Deaf Education major at Michigan State University. I have created this blog for one of my classes. It's focus is to help future teachers understand how to use technology in their classrooms. I am just beginning to realize how powerful  a tool it can be. Currently I am a user of Facebook, and Twitter. I have little experience working with other sites.  I am looking forward to expanding my knowledge of classroom technology.