Ways to use technology in your everyday lessons!!!
Lesson (How I would use it in my classroom)

Math:
My students always have a hard time with basic multiplication skills. For example 7X6 (one digit by one digit). They have a hard time remembering all the different answers. My students also like to listen to all different kinds of music, rap in particular. So, they idea I came up with was having them pair up and making a rap for each set of multiplication facts. Then recording their rap on the computer and playing it for the class. This would be a cross curricular activity between music and math. I think they would have a lot of fun with this and also again something they can keep and listen to of their mP3’s or their iPods.

Literacy:
In our writing curriculum we have to cover numerous forms of writing one being persuasive. Persuasive writing in one of the forms my students really enjoy and excel at. I was thinking I would have my students do a podcast while persuading the Board of Education to build us a bigger gym (our gym is extremely tiny which makes it hard to practice any sports). This would be a change for them instead of just traditional paper and pencil. They could then share it with other classes and get more and more students involved almost like an electronic petition, when finished they could take it to the Boards attention. Not only will it give them students a voice it is also giving them a chance to write about something they believe in. You could do this will all different forms of writing to give your students a change and you never know you might get more out of them then you usually would with paper and pencil. From this I would also allow them to put it on the web so not only are they listening to it, but also it is made available to the world. This would not only benefit your strong students, because the possibilities are endless to how far your students can take this but it will also give your non-writers (which I had three in my class this year) and your weak writers a chance to shine!
I also really like the idea of using blogs to improve writing skills, we all now know how to use blogs and I think it would teach our students to use voice in their writing.

Science:
My favourite unit in science is Space. For space you could create a digital storytelling unit. You could have your students create a digital story on each of the planets and present it to the class using the smart board. You could also take this lesson one step further and have them add audio to their presentation. Think about it you would have students find pictures of each planet and information on it and present it to the class, the students could keep this assignment either on a memory stick or their hard drive and refer back to it when ever they needed to.
You could have the students role play and pretend they are working for NASA and have them do a play on what they found in space on a specific planet, you could also have them do newscasts and press conference about what they would say to the media before their big mission to a different planet.

Physical Education:
In Phys. Ed. I think it would be a cool idea to have your students make their own workout video for the class to do. This would hit all the multiple intelligences as well as give them the opportunity to work with incorporating music (we all know you need good music in a workout video to motivate you) and video at the same time. Again this is great for your students that are shy and don’t like to go in front of the class they can record it and then just participate like everyone else. Again a great cross curricular activity using Drama and Physical Education.
The possibilities are endless!!!!!!