Laura+Becker

Hello, my name is Laura Becker and I am a student at Clemson University. I hope to graduate in May 2011 and continue my education. Before attending Clemson University I was a student at Southern Wesleyan University. It is a great school but rather small for my liking and offered little for my major. I tranfered to Clemson my junior year and fell behind a year. Currently I live in a small house beside my parents, so basically I am still living at home with my dogs. On my spare time I really enjoy reading, watching movies, shopping, and walking my dogs.

As far as technology is concered, I am fairly savvy with computers but I know there is so much more I can learn. I have noticed that schools are now placing smartboards or promeathenboard in the classrooms and unfortunately I have not have much experience as I would have like to have. I have seen what they can do and I am excited to learn more about how to use them.

This activity from the NLVM would serve to be very useful in my classroom. My students are currently learning about money. At this point in time they know how much a quarter, dime, nickel, and penny is worth. They are learning to add change to make a dollar. This activity would be perfect for my classroom because they would be required to know the amount of what the change represents as well as use addition in order to make the dollar. This activity also will allow my student to count how money and pay exact amount, a higher order skill they will eventually learn and need to know. This activity will give them practice and provide multiple examples for them to practice. This is another activity from NLVM that would be useful in my classroom. My students are also learning to tell time and this activity is a great visual representation of a real clock. I am able to manipulate the minute hand and hour hand to any time i wish. This would be a great assessment activity for all my students. I could show the time up on the smartboard and have them record on a sheet of paper what time they think the clock is showing. I will definitely take advantage of this website in the future when instructing my students.