Technology Inventory

I was pleasantly surprised at how much technology we have available to us in our classroom and how much it is used. There are 4 computers in the classroom that students use daily at a literacy station to play literacy games. They take a computerized test every Friday on laptops that the school carts around. There is a TV and VCR player. Teachers have microphones that they can wear on their neck so that they or other students who are talking do not have to speak so loudly. Teachers have their own laptop. They have a projector they can attach their laptop to and use as well as a promethean board (like a SMARTboard). This is very useful for classroom instruction! Students can write on the board, teachers can use it in several different ways to make learning fun and interesting.
The students know quite a bit about technology and are much more tech savvy than I was at their age. They are able to navigate their computers very well with the mouse. Typing takes them a while but they can still do it. Technology is pretty readily available in the classroom, which is great!