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** Alissa Russo ** **Early Childhood Education** **@http://guest.portaportal.com/acrusso0 **   media type="youtube" key="-qenG74NuU4" height="315" width="560" align="center" media type="file" key="Alissa Russo - Teaching Assistanship.m4v" align="left" width="360" height="360"

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**Observation Notes**  School: West Side Elementary School Grade Level: 5th grade Teacher: Mrs. Tonya Hensel

(Date) (Time) (Period) Description of technology use.
 * 1)  (2/22/12) (8:50am) ( Morning procedures)- The teacher used the desk top computer in the class room to keep track of the class attendance, record grades and communicate with other teachers through email. She also uses the computer to check the weather to inform the students.
 * 2)  (2/22/12) (9:00am) (Morning procedures/activity)- The teacher used the document camera and projector to review answers to a math worksheet. The teacher used this many times and in every subject, she would change the color of the picture reflecting on the screen during different subjects to keep the kids attention and them engaged.
 * 3) (2/22/12) (9:10-9:40am) (Resource)- The students went to the computer lab where 24 desk top computers were located. The students used the internet and went to IXL.com to practice math in games for 20 min, and then multiplication.com for 10 min and the last 10 min was free choice of what math games they wanted to play. The games involved math problem and some of them typing practice.
 * 4)  (2/22/12) (10:50-11:40) (Reading)- During reading the students are in rotating groups, as one of the stations in the rotation that students were able to use the computers in the classroom to type the stories they wrote and then if they had more time practice additional math on the IXL.com website.
 * 5) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> (2/22/12) (1:50-2:40) (Science)- The teacher used the internet on one of the laptops in the classroom to show videos on the projector to introduce a new topic. The videos were easy to understand and relatable for the kids.