I taught my second block yesterday. It went well, but lecturing is not as fun as doing demonstrations.
The clickers worked well, for the most part, but there were some technical difficulties. When I connected my laptop to the projector, it changed the resolution of my screen so the font on my presentation was a little hard to read for students in the back of the room. I was able to remedy that by reading the questions and answer choices aloud. Most of my clicker questions were multiple choice, but I had two write-in questions. One was just numbers, and another was text. The numbers worked fine, but the text was a little tricky. It ended up delaying the lesson enough that I found out that I over-planned and we did not get to the practice problems from the textbook.
I think if I went through the lesson a second time it would run smoother and I would be able to finish in time.
Allie finished the mini-unit today with her webquest. Our classroom teacher will extend the unit to finish the PS. 10 SOL and their test will be next week.
Hmmm... Did you try to adjust the resolution on the computer? That might have remedied the problem.
ReplyDeleteWas typing in the text the part that was difficult with the clickers? Was it a technical glitch?