Learn to read

This site tells how you can use all your language skills to build those of your child. It is designed for helping children through the most important years for learning the skills they will need to become readers. With the addition of Useful Fun Reading Games you can enhance and made reading interesting and enjoyable. Reading Strategy along with Reading Game can make the learning experiences out of everyday routines and allow the child to become more involved in his/her reading. The activities are designed for you to have fun with your children while helping them gain the skills they need to learn to read.

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Computer Skills in the classroom

Today's world of science and technology and its advancement most schools around the world are now introducing the use of computers in their classrooms. Computers are everywhere around us and it can surely enhance the learning processs in many ways. It can be uses as a tutor and a teacher's assistant to aid and develop a child's academic learning.

 

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Electronic whiteboard

This is a new technology that can add assistance and make teaching more interactive,informatative,and fun for learners. The device is a projection screen which looks like a normal board that one uses in the classroom but it is different. This board is totally electronic and it does not need the use of a marker. This board works similar to a computer and has the same function and the user can also access the internet from the board. The user can operate the board by the use of the touch screens which is also similar to his/her personal computer.

This technology enhances the educators' teaching style and allows the learner to engage in the use of various learning styles eg: visual and hearing to help project a better image of what is being taught, it is also time-saving in the and educators can prepare work in advance and e-mail the lesson to students if thy are absent from a class.

Art

Tuesday was the bomb in our art class. We were made to critique our classmate work, it was a lengthy process but in the end we were able to understand the rubric and how an indiviual would be marked on his/her presentation

Survey of Exceptionalities

On Wednesday in our Exceptionalities class we had  to make up a rap, poem, a song or any fun means of remembering chapter 2 and the important points of the chapter. We were placed into groups of six and each group was given a topic to work with for about mins. Our group made up a rap on the step in the IEP process our presentation was good as well as the other groups I particularly liked the group presentation in the form of an extempo great work to all.

Ed tech. Test

Today was our first test for semester II and it was good. We did an electronic test and we were able to do it over if we weren't pleased with our score. I got 70%,80% & 80% all of that for 10% of our final score.