Monday, March 23, 2015

Day 14: Måndag

Måndag is Norwegian for Monday.  I would like to comment on how nice it is to use a Norwegian keyboard.  Everything is pretty much where it is supposed to be (at least the letters) but punctuation and stuff is all mixed up.  The worst is either the ' is a key farther away or that you have to hit "alt gr" and then 2 in order to get a @ because you get " when you just do shift+2.  Then the left shift is the size of a normal key which is something new.  But hey, just get used to it.

One of the things that I want to comment on today is a teaching strategy that I tried out today.  I have always heard that students need to interact with the subject content.  That is what I had the students doing today.  Our topic for the day was graphing equations after getting a table of values.  I had already prepared the graphs beforehand.  What I had the students doing was going up to the front and putting their finger on where the point was going to show up.  I felt like it was effective because then it had the students up at the board trying to plot points.  It was a nice was to provide formative assessment whether that student understands how to plot points on a graph.  It would have also been fine if a student would have gotten it wrong because then we could have talked about why they did what they did.

I want to give a shout out to my housemates.  They have been doing a great job of cooking food!  I really appreciate their time and effort that they have put in to making dinners and such.

No comments:

Post a Comment