Medieval History

Sounds like an exciting topic doesn't it??? Well, it is, but I am NOT looking forward to the midterm that I am writing in 2 hours. I am actually starting to stress quite a lot because this week I have been prepping for interviews instead of studying for this exam...not necessarily the best choice (at least that is how it feels right now)... = (

So...one thing that is frustrating me, is the the usage of names. It seems that all the royal families like naming their children after themselves or their own fathers...and this results in many King Henry's only distinguished by the Roman Numerals that come after their name...and in France we have what seems to be an infinite line of Kind Louis'!!

This really has nothing to do with education, let a lone technology, but it is my current focus, and occupying my mind, so I just had to blog about it...back to studying!

Technology and Mathematics

I have a question to pose. Being a "math geek" I always think of technology in a classroom in terms of a math class. As I am learning all of these neat/cool things from Alec, I would love to incorporate them into my classroom when I eventually have one. But I am stuck...I am unsure of how to implement these sorts of things...?

I have worked with a smart board, and that was great, both the kids and I had a great time!! =) But it was more centered around me, just because you have one big smart board, and I used it for instructing and giving visuals. This worked great, but I am thinking that there is more that I could do to get the students involved. **Now there is a problem here though, because some of the schools that I would like to teach in do not have enough computers for their to be a lab open to anyone but the computer classes** So now we've come to another predicament.

I am really struggling to find ways to adapt this into my classroom...and one of my main problems is that what if I have to teach the students all about the technical side of what I wanna do? then I've lost actually time for doing it, because if anyone knows anything about the math curriculum...it is unrealistic in time (I have yet to meet a teacher who can teach the given curriculum in a semester, and have the kids following along)...

So I guess my question is rather large, and I am just more so looking for ideas...!!