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Week 3

This is the 3rd week of classes and I don’t quite know what to do. The students seem bored with PowerPoints. I worked so hard on them! I actually saw some students roll their eyes when I showed them the slides the first day, which took the wind right out of my sails. I don’t understand why because the slides are visual, give them a good outline for the content so they can listen during lecture more easily. Maybe it’ll help if I print them out and let the students take notes directly on the slides. That should be a great study guide.

Week 1

It’s the start of another new school year. That makes my 16th year of teaching middle school science. Over the summer I created PowerPoint slides for some of the labs for the first grading period. The slides have all the lab notes, pictures, and even some sound files. I think I did a great job on them and that this will be a great improvement and a good use of technology. I’m excited about using the slides. I also found some good websites that I’ll use during classtime. I have my own webpage on the school server—all teachers have to have one. I’m able to update it well enough at the start of each year, and managed to get this year’s information posted a week early! So, I’m ready to go for the year.