Simple Technology in Your Classroom

It was the first week back. I must admit it was one of those weeks where I just felt completely disorganized and under prepared. My husband badly rolled his ankle so my partner in crime at home was out of commission, leaving me to feel disorganized at home too! Luckily there is a new week right behind this one where I can try and get back into the swing of things!

I switched up my math routine this week and I feel so much better about it. I was teaching math in the afternoon and let me tell you this was not working. I was fighting hard for their attention for some very important information.  I moved the actual lesson to very first thing in the morning and I think I heard angels singing at one point. It was glorious!

We were building models of equivalent fractions in groups. I had a light bulb moment. I took my cell phone and took a picture of one of the group's models, and then emailed it to myself. Then I opened the picture and put it up on the projector for everyone to see.

I realize I am probably the last person on the planet to finally think of this, but just in case I'm not, I wanted to share. It was awesome to be able to share our models immediately. It was also awesome that one of the examples was wrong, so that we could discuss that. It was much easier than trying to get them to reconstruct them under the document camera.