Field Experiences 7400 10 hours

Technology Teacher for the Day for Kindergarten and 1st grade
TF-III A
1 hr 20 min.

I was given the opportunity to cover for the computer teacher in the computer lab for about four hours.  Instead of having the students play games on the computers, I had them work in the paint program.  Some of the Kindergarten students were able to find the program and open it up while I was assisting the students opening the program.  For the 1st graders, I had them open the program up by following my directions and displaying the steps on the projector.  Both the Kindergarten and 1st grade classes were able to play with the features to make creative pictures, colorful abstract pictures, and paint their names.  I walked around and help the students to clear the pictures, make the paper bigger, and find the tools they are looking for.  At the end of class I had the students stand by the computer and have the teacher walk around to look at their pictures.  This was an opportunity for the students to expand their technology skills on creating a picture of their own on the paint program.

Technology Teacher for the Day 2nd Grade
TF-III D.
40 minutes

Since the 2nd grade class I had were working on friendly letters, I showed them step-by-step process on how to type a friendly letter in Microsoft word.  I had my computer hooked up to the projector to show the steps while explaining it.  I had them type a letter to their teacher about how they were happy to be in her class or explain how they will do better in class.  They had to have a greeting, body, closing and signature.  This helped to re-enforce all the components of a friendly letter in typed form.  When the teacher decided to wrap up the lesson and display some of the letters,  I asked if the students could type it up to see if they can remember how to type it up.  The students are typing them for the academic gallery board.

Book Summaries
5th Grade
TF-III D.
8 hours

During there Specials, Ms. Moultrie's class started to work with Publisher and I gave them step-by-step on how to create a background and played with the size and style of the font for their book reviews.  Three more 5th grade classes started the same process.  Two of the fifth grade classes I had during the day that I was substituting for the computer teacher.  The second class that wanted to do the book reviews were able to get further by adding their unique names and played with the font.  Ms. Moultrie's class went further into the book review process.  They worked on their reviews in Microsoft Word.  I explained to the students individually what the different lines meaned that were underlining some of the words.  I worked with the students individually during my planning time daily until November 9th to show them how to transfer their book review to Publisher.  They watched as I turned their work into an PDF file and uploaded onto the internet.  For this project that I took on, I was trying to enhance their way for writing a summary for the books they have read into a unique way to display their summary.  I had them add an opinion to their summary to create interest.  It was a challenge to encourage them to write but they and to assist them with little spare time I had, but it was worth the struggles to get their work published on the internet.