Tuesday, November 3, 2009

technology interview

I completed the mid-course evaluation and the informed consent form.

For the technology inventory I interviewed the director of Dancing Moose Montessori School in West Valley City, Utah. Jennifer said that the technologies that are permanently located in every classroom include an iPod, an iPod player, a computer, and a telephone. There are also TV's with DVD players on wheels that are available for teachers to check out.

Although Jennifer is pleased with the technology in the classrooms, she wisher there were more resources permanently available. She hopes to include multiple listening centers, such as reading books on tape, permanent TV/DVD players, and a central iPod station “so all the classrooms could share all music at all times”. Technology is used to get ideas and prepare materials through the use of the website UEN.org and other websites as well. Powerpoint presentations are used to showcase different pieces of artwork and music when students are studying composers and artists.

An additional question I asked Jennifer was about technology use for different ages, and which ages tend to use it more. At DMMS computers are used extensively with children ranging from age three to second grade. Age-appropriate computer games are in classrooms and can be used during their free play time. Teachers in the toddler classrooms use computers to keep track of observations, and all of the teachers use email to communicate with parents.

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