Successful Use of Technology

I had a very successful use with technology this week!  We had our Open House Wednesday night.  I had gone home sick earlier that day from school, so was not feeling that great when I came back for Open House.  For my Open House presentation, I decided to record my students saying the things I was going to present to the parents.  (I am not very good at speaking in front of adults and especially my parents.)  I recorded the students and took pictures of them.  I originally wanted to videotape them, but due to our computers getting re-imaged this summer, I do not have the software to upload the videos on my school laptop.  I created a PowerPoint presentation with the recordings that my students did as well as their picture on the page they were reading.  My parents LOVED it, and so did I especially since I was not feeling well at all!  I had many comments from the parents about the presentation and the use of technology in the presentation.  I even had one parent ask how my principal would feel if he had me come work for him to create presentations for his business!  It's times like these that it make it very worthwhile to learn the new ways to use technology and use them effectively in the classroom.  I do owe Dr. Baylen a huge thanks because I would not have thought to do this presentation if it wasn't for his Introduction to Multimedia class I took over the summer.