Technology Interview and Shadowing

Being placed at North throughout the last three years has been such a privilege. North has so much technology available to the students and teachers compared to other schools. Within my contract, I decided that I wanted to learn more about North's technology. For this task, I worked with Amy Hernandez-Bailey.

During this two hours, she told me about all kinds of technology that I never even knew existed anywhere, especially at North. I learned about airliners that are sort of like an etch-a-sketch where the students can pass this equipment around and write on it with a pen. The only difference is that what is being written goes onto a main computer and can be displayed onto a white board. These are also referred to as Mobile Presenters.

Also during this time, Amy walked me through the process of setting up the CPS system. This is a system that is portable in the school like the clickers that the university has in classrooms on campus. She taught me about the different ways that this technology can be used with questions, with a PowerPoint setup, or simply as a timer and a clicker for students to respond without the distraction of any writing/text. This was a very exciting because I took time during my internship creating jeopardy games and questions through PowerPoint to use as reviews and now i know how to use this technology to link it to clickers.

Lastly, Amy provided me with a great deal of resources and information on SMART Boards. North received twelve new boards at the beginning of the physical year. But, most teachers that received these boards did not know yet how to use them. As part of a professional development, she had all sorts of materials available to assist in working with the boards. I found it very interesting and awesome that she shared these with me. In the future, if I am working in a school that has SMART Boards, it will be nice to have this information to refer back to.