The uses of interactive whiteboards and digital voice recorders are limitless as long as you are creative. Lets begin with the interactive whiteboards. This year I'm having a real hard time with my students and writing quality lab reports. I think it would be very beneficial for my students if we could go over some lab reports my students have written and have them use the interactive whiteboard to either correct or point out key aspects of the lab report. How this lesson would work is I would first scan several different lab reports showing below average, average, exceeding, and excelling areas. Then I would display them on the interactive board and call on several students to make any corrections they feel are necessary. After discussing the different lab reports and the key components the class will create a rubric for the "perfect lab report". You might be thinking to yourself why not just put them on an overhead transparency and write right on it there. That's a very good question the major benefit to using the whiteboard is that it will allow me to save the file and upload it to my web-site so if my students ever need to refer back to how to create a perfect lab report or what not to put in a lab report they would be able to bring up the file anytime, anywhere.
I've always wanted to incorporate real life science into my classroom and the digital voice recorder would allow me to do this. A project I have been thinking about it is how is Biology used in real life situations and careers. The students would be split up into groups of two and would have a list of adults in several different careers that they could choose from. Then the student would need to go and interview the adult and create an iMovie or powerpoint or another type of media and present a type of commercial job posting piece on their specific career. This would incorporate so many different technologies and most importantly they will utilize their communication skills with adult figures. In addition to the project deliverable I would have the students critique their own interviews and write a reflection piece on what went well and how they could improve on it for the future.
A second way of using the interactive whiteboard would be during my genetics unit. There is a ton of genetic story problems that the students have to learn and perform and so the whiteboard would allow both myself and the students to get up out of their chairs and work together. The best part is at the end of the class period I can save the information and be able to bring it back up the next day and not have to worry about what point we left off.
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Great Blog!
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Very nice blog. It would be nice if we could all have every piece of technology available so we can create these technology rich projects!
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