Something that I love about the Education department here at CCU, is that they get their students out and in a JeffCo classroom within their first year of college.
Granted, I have done 60+ hours of field work thus far, and honestly have learned more already about being a teacher by actually being one, than some of my classes have taught me about being one.
That being said, something that happened while I was working with my second grade class nicely incorporates with my previous blog post (about practically using technology in the classroom).
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It all began while we were working on animal research projects... so we already had animals on the brain.
One day one of the teachers was informed that their was a recently discovered Bald Eagle nest in Michigan, that had some "ready to be hatched" eggs in it.
Well of course when the Bald Eagle foundation (or something of the sort) found out about this, they decided to plant a video camera near the nest so that their would be a 24/7 live stream of the progress of these little baby Baby Eagles.
The teachers back at the school I was working with went to work and found the website with the live stream of the animals. We would periodically put it on the smart board in our classroom and watch these creatures in their natural habitat. We saw the parents take turns watching the eggs, we saw the babies as they were hatched, we saw the parents protect and feed them, and much more.
This experience totally brought to life the animal research project we were doing, and taught the students more about wild life than many of their books did.
And here's the thing-- it never would have been possible without technology!
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