Well my first placement is in the books and now its back to being the student. The first week back in class was a good one, the first day was mostly spent debriefing and then we got back right into the swing of things. During my placement I used a lot of technology. Things as simple as using the iPad to take attendance and insert grades, to more complex things like using apple tv to make the whole gym wireless.
When i first got to my school, my CT was talking to me about how another teacher had set up his gym wireless and he want to do the same. So we set up the apple tv and ran a cable from the apple tv to the gyms stereo system. So we could play music over the sound system through our phones and we could control the volume and what songs played all through our phone. It was great because before that we always had to go into the office and now we could do it from anywhere! The other awesome thing was we could play videos off the iPad from YouTube and project them on to the wall with the projector. It was something i used a lot with workout routines and warm up videos. Another great use for that was we set up a scoreboard with the iPad. We downloaded a scoreboard app and it worked great. So instead of having to spend a few hundred dollars on a new scoreboard, we bought an 8 dollar app that did all the same things.
I used a lot of technology during my placement, and it was great to see all the different ways it could be used in the classroom. One day when i have my own classroom i definitely want to emphasize the use of technology, it makes things easier and much more efficient and for the most part it is very easy to use.
Those are a few great ideas, Tim. Thanks for sharing them.
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