Reflection #11

Today we taught our first lesson.  It was our technology integrated lesson.  We have been prepared for a while, our lesson plan has been written for a few weeks and we felt that everything was good to go.  

But, then the drama began.  Yesterday we obtained the projector that we were going to use to present our power point.  We wanted to do a trial run before our actual lesson, and boy am I glad we did.  We couldn't get our computer to hook up to the projector. (We lacked the proper connector.)  

We thought we would solve the problem by burning the power point and using one of the schools computers to show the presentation.  We then realized that the computer the school provided did not have a power point program; so that wasn't going to work.

After brainstorming we figured that we might just have to scrap the presentation.  But then good things started happening.  Late last night I came across the cord that we needed to piggy back our computer into the projector.  

Early this morning we tested it out and it worked great.  We went on to teach our lesson, the kids loved it.  I was surprised that our presentation really did gain and keep the students attention.  It was a smooth lesson, and I don't think we would have changed a thing.  the kids were involved, active listeners, and on task.  what more can a teacher ask for? 

I am looking forward to the lesson that we will teach tomorrow.