When you are absent for a week to attend the amazing Texas Library Association conference and walk into a classroom with a GIANT projection system taking up a quarter of your room, it is reasonable to say some choice words about the inconvenience of it all. I am here to say that I was this teacher and am now fully eating my words! In Austin ISD we have received a new roll out of technology to older campuses, such as mine that was built in 1939. Though our new equipment is a bit of an eyesore, it has the propensity to be the most amazing educational tool my classroom has in its arsenal! Shown in the picture above are students working on curating boards about ecosystems and resources streaming in real-time over the projection screen! As a teacher, I have control over who is streaming and who is not. So far this system has done two major things: 1) students are less apt to visit sites they were not assigned to peruse and 2) students are able to build ideas off one another and share in each other's continuous revising process. The possibilities are endless and I am so excited for everything my students will be able to do through this system!
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AuthorMy name is Mackenzie Wright. I am currently a teacher in the Austin area, and am finishing my Master's in school librarianship through UNT. Categories
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