RP Shares 4th grade math division lesson

While student take turns coming the Smartboard screen to write and think, the other students are working at their seats with counters (manipulatives) and worksheets at their desks.

Playback this division lesson.

Use the pulldown menu in the Playback controls to jump to various points in the lesson. The double-right blue arrows are the fast foward button. Other buttons jump to the beginning, the next heading in the pull-down menu, or the end. The lesson runs for some 40 minutes, with a brief discussion at the end between our two classrooms.

RP Shares-4th Grade Writing Lesson-30 min

In this lesson, RP shares her 4th grade classroom pre-writing teaching with a university teaching methods class over the Internet using the screen and audio sharing features of Centra software. In addition to sharing ideas out loud for discussion, the fourth graders come to the Smartboard to add story ideas.

The first 4.5 minutes deal with some initial audio quality issues that are worked thru and then the audio slowly improves. To jump directly to the lesson start, find the pull-down menu and select "lesson begins-Christmas slide". To jump to university student interactions, select "haunted house language slide".

Playback the recorded lesson.

While the lesson is underway, University students viewing this lesson live contribute some of the own ideas by typing on the Smartboard screen from their remote computers. To gain control of the screen to enter their idea, these students use a "raised hand" symbol to indicate their readiness to add something. Their instructor then places a green arrow over their microphone indicating they have screen access. The selected student then selects the text-entry command and type their thought. This will appear on the left hand side of the screen.