Computer Lab Time

The computer lab room at my school is great (when everything is working properly). I went ahead and booked the time for the lab in order to show students how to access their student portal, and then view their grades, textbook, and other electronic resources from the web. The lesson went grade with my smaller classes as I had about 20 students, but for my larger classes of 30 and 34 (inclusion classes), it was a bit of a nightmare. There were only 22 WORKING computers and then not enough individual chairs, so I had to use student desk chairs for the remainder students to use while they waited for their turn on the computers. After the dust was settled, all of the students were able to log on successfully To their portal.

We then began to go over proper procedures to use a USB flash drive. Every student has their own as it was on the classroom materials list, thus becoming a great tool for each student along with a great method to saving paper. With the SMART board as my friend, I showed the students how to create their own science folder within the drive and how to use the 'save as' function on their programs. This will be used to have the students save their science current event papers along with any lab reports that they construct. The idea is to then grade their papers from their external hard drive, so that they may view comments and their grade. I would of ours then save their paper in their class file for myself, to keep record of their grades/comments.

Well, these are just a few ways that I use te enology in the classroom, at least for the beginning of the year.

~JA Lorente-Pico