Exit Slip, Oct. 7th

Today we discussed our IRLO assignment and what our expectations were for this assignment.  We discussed ways of making lessons more interactive and how to get and give better feedback.  With this, we were introduced to the program, "Scratch".  The program is meant to allow us to create an interactive way of teaching a lesson while giving instant feedback to the student.  What was really cool about the program is that we can create a lesson and the child may use it anywhere as long as they had an internet connection at home (there is a scratch community that we can save our lessons to).  This is not only a free program but allows us to make an activity that can target on exactly the student needs to work on.  I thought all of this was really cool since it gives them instant feedback and helps the learning feel more like a game.  This could expand the classroom quite a bit and you could use this as an activity for children who get done with classwork early and need something to focus on that is still constructive.  Also, my group presented chapter 4 today.  It went alright.  I learned that the SMART board is a lot easier to use than I thought earlier and that it's fun to talk in front of people no matter what the age.