tech thought

In college, we use technology in the classroom a lot. Every student here at NMU has a laptop. We have opportunities to make Power Points, Word documents, excel spreadsheets, make videos, and serf the web. For HS 350, (Logan's class) we use overhead projectors to teach our lesson plans in front of the class. However, I realized that the technology that is going on in the schools here in the Upper Peninsula is much different. We have to create a lesson plan to teach at Father Marquette Middle School. I was exctited to use use the techniques we learned in HS 350 and apply them to my FMMS lesson plan. However, Father Marquette has no overhead projectors to display Power Points. So I can't even show a picture and do spiraling questions or show video clips. As teachers, we need to be aware of the environment we teach in. We must be flexable and adapt.