Grades and looking ahead

Had an interesting day today, mostly at Ashbrook.

I went there today mainly because they are posting grades and I wanted to be around in case there were any questions since I probably won't be here on Wednesday.

I helped a few folks with grades and with some projector questions, but the most interesting things was talking with Ms. Gibson, a math teacher. She wants some sort of interactive program (I'm thinking for the SMART board, that has interactive flash cards that she can use to show and practice algebra skills. This would involve bringing equations up and then solving them, but mainly focusing on techniques and tricks used to solve them. She would have to be able to change plus to minus, negative to positive, etc. and the problem would update as she does.

We both decided that it could probably be programed, maybe in flash, but how and who to do it? We're both going to keep looking at it. I researched it and found a few web things, but I'm still thinking.

Later I went to Grier and talked to the principal. I was going to do a survey to see what teachers were intersted in, but it turns out they are clamoring for SMART ideas so I am going to do 40 minute workshops during their planning on Dec. 2.