For the past 2 weeks, I've mostly been talking to teachers about making classroom sites and asking them how they'd like to incorporate technology into their lessons.  A number of teachers now have blogs (Ms. Pocic, Ms. Miller, Ms. Fisher, and Ms. Hill; Ms. Neely and Ms. Davis created blogs earlier), and they've been playing around with them for the past few days.  They've all said that they'd start really updating them in the upcoming weeks; I hope they do!  I'll also be continuing to add new sites for other teachers and check in with the ones who have blogs already.

Ms. Davis really wants the teachers to go to the computer lab more (or, failing that, use the laptops that the school has for classroom use).  She gave each class a time for the lab twice a week in two 20 minute blocks, but there are very few teachers who actually take their classes to the lab.  The computers in the lab now have Insight installed on them, which we're hoping will make it easier for the teachers to control their kids when they take them there.  They also now have Child's Play installed on them.  Ms. Fisher seemed most willing to go to the lab in the near future, so I asked her what sort of things she'd like to do.  She especially wanted games that developed addition and subtraction skills (1st grade level), and that would be appropriate for students who were at different levels of understanding.

I've been looking over many game sites, and have found a couple of games that look really good.  <a href="http://www.fun4thebrain.com/addition.html">This </a>was a site I particularly liked, and I was able to test it on a few first- and second- graders who enjoyed playing the games.  I also discovered <a href="http://gcompris.net/-en-">gcompris</a>, which seems like it would be great for the younger kids.  Ms. Davis and I are hoping that next quarter, if my class schedule works out the way I want it to, I will be able to run labs several times a week.  We'd really like classes to go there at least once a week, and maybe if I'm there to help, the teachers will be more likely to go.