It looks so easy to use technology in the classroom, but really it is quite difficult when the technology doesn't want to work!!! In our first lesson, we wanted to use our digital story to start talking about Mesopotamia but when we brought the digital story in on our junk drives, it wouldn't work on Mr. Wyatt's Mac! We tried and tried different things. We could get the sound and the images to come up, but it wouldn't play all together. So we just had to play the sound and click along the images. Not what we had planned, but it worked I guess.
The second lesson we wanted to use a PowerPoint of images in order to engage the students and to get some ideas generated for the activity we were going to do. Unfortunately, the PowerPoint wouldn't work on Mr. Wyatt's computer either! This time we were a little smarter though and Heather brought her computer. Unfortunately, her computer was running a little slow and then when we hooked it up to the projector, it wouldn't display her screen!! GGGRRRRR. We finally got it to work but we were half way through our lesson plan by then. Now we know that we have to use the computer that we create the work on to insure that all will work and get to class early and set things up to reduce problems
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