Question:
How much advanced planning and arranging must you do so you can share a web site or web-based activity with your entire class at once? Do you have a projector in your room? Your school? Where must you go to borrow one or use an interactive whiteboard? Please tell us what steps you must take, if any, and how much time and advanced notice is required.
Replies:
Lisa Huelle - Russellville , AR
Have you talked to many teachers and/or administrators to discuss the absurdity of NCLB? www.educatorroundtable.org
Terri Messing - Port Orchard, WA
I am lucky to have won a mini grant that allows me to have a projectore, document camera, and a mini whiteboard, althought the whiteboard does not work because of where my classroom is located. For those teachers who do not have these things they will borrow my classroom or else their students will not have the opportunity. We have one computer lab of 25 computers that work most days, and a library with 30 computers that is getting better at working all of the time, but if you do not sign up to use one of those areas, you will never get in. It is tough competition to use technology at my school. It is survival of the fastest to sign up.
teacher - Buffalo, NY
I do not have a projector in my room. I do not have access to an interactive whiteboard. These two pieces of equipment are only available to the science teachers in our building - I'm special ed. Two teachers uses their equipment all the time to support their students' learning. One never uses his - but we can't borrow it. Two others use theirs occasionally. The last one uses his to let his students watch movies. I have asked for both pieces of technology, but so far I've been denied the equipment.
Sue Ottesen - Bossier City, LA
To present a web site with my class, I only need to put the web address in Favorites and locate the ancillary materials. This is very easy to do. I use an assistive technology program to scan any worksheets that we will use so that I can also review with the class. I have an LCD projector, a NetTV, and seven computers in my classroom, but I don't have a whiteboard. I don't see the need for one with the technology I have.
J. Rose - Fort Gibson, OK
My question would be about the millions of Americans, 18+ in age, who never learned to read. While some may have dropped out of school, many completed high school and did not learn to read. Reasons for not learning to read are varied but may be due to an undiagnosed learning disability. These individuals are often doomed to a life of poverty because opportunities are limited. Low literacy often begets low literacy. What do you, as President of the United States, commit to and support in order to help educate these individuals?
Dr Mike Currier - Ft Worth, TX
What will you do to strengthen NCLB and hold states' feet to the fire to be more accountable for the billions of dollars the Feds are pouring into the state education coffers?
Karen - Owensboro, KY
I am very fortunate to have a document camera, an airliner, a projector and computer all connected in my own classroom. Anytime I wish to share a web project, website, powerpoint, I simply have to turn everything on. A special workshop was offered to us two years ago. By attending we were given $500 to spend on technology. I selected the document camera and projector with my funds.
Maria - Albany, NY
I am a computer integrating teacher for Preschool to Grade 8. We have a SMART board on wheels to move to different rooms as needed...takes me a bit of time. Often sites are blocked and must be checked to see if they are blocked at school besides just from home. Videos and video clips don't load well even tho our IT guy says we have all the qualifications. Teachers just [pass me in the hall and ask if the room is being used and if it is, I jockey around the class to another lab where we don't have the projector and board. It takes me about 10-15 minutes to move the board and resent the projector. If they ocm to the lab - It's set up on a dedicated laptop and projector.
Kathryn Hernandez - San Pedro Sula, Honduras, foreign
I teach art to 130 ninth graders, 23 10th graders and 20 11th and 12th graders in a private bilingual international school in San Pedro Sula, Honduras. the 11th and 12th grade class also includes AP students. I must sign up in the library preferrably 1 week in advance but sometimes three day ahead(if I am lucky) t0 use a data-show projector in my classroom for a web-based activity. I have a computer in my classroom. A Smart Board and projector is available, again if I sign the week before, in another classroom on campus to which I must move my students for the activity.
teacher - Crossville, TN
As teachers we know that education is a "three-legged stool": parents, students and teachers. NCLB holds teachers accountable, but not parents or students. This seems to be because teachers are the only ones that can be punished for not doing their "part". What would you do as President of the United States to hold students and parents accountable for their parts in education?
Margaret - St Louis, MO
I am a special education teacher. At this time, we have access to one computer which can access the web in the room and 4 or 5 in the library. Although there are white boards availablde in some classroom, we only have access during special class, if at all. The big joke is that 'Yes, we have technology. We have a clock.'
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