Stacey+Griffith



====I'm Stacey Griffith. I'm a senior at Clemson University. I'm from Belton, SC. I love music and books. I've been around technology all my life. My parents exposed me to computers when I was little and have encouraged me to learn everything I can. My block placement is at Clemson Elementary School. Each classroom has its own Promethean Board. My teacher uses the board every morning to take attendance and get the lunch count. She also uses it during her lessons to illustrate concepts. Our classroom also has 6 laptops. The school has a computer lab and a supply cart of 28 laptops. There are also computers available in the Media Center.====

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I like the professional development section of Edutopia. I think it's important to find ways to better yourself. If you have a resource that allows you to learn new skills then you should take advantage of it.=====

__Technology Extension__ Last week, my students worked on creating bar graphs. I like the graphing resources in the SMART Board software. There are examples of graphs that could be used to introduce graphing. There are also graph paper templates that we could use to do graphs together as a class.

__Science & Technology Reviews__ Website #1 – Froguts [] I really like Froguts. It is a virtual dissection service that students can use at school or at home. You can dissect many things including: frogs, fetal pigs, starfish, squids, owl pellets, cow eyes, peas, and flies. However, it is a subscription service. I would definitely rather use this instead of dissecting real animals and plants. I have dissected a frog before and it was unpleasant for many of my classmates. I tried the demo on the website. I like that it takes you through everything you would do in the classroom in a virtual environment. Website #2 – Bitesize English [] This site has activities for students that deal with English. You can work on punctuation, deduction skills, and even writing. This website has a variety of activities to help students learn and practice their ELA skills. I really liked the Letter Writing activity. It has you pick what you think is best to write and then you have to put everything in its place on the page.