Interview number 3!

Hello, today is a bit rainy, but as far as research goes it's a great day! So far 6 people have taken my survey, and I have interviewed three teachers.

I had the honor of interviewing another one of my former teachers today. Mrs. Knopp is a 10th and 11th grade English teacher in Yorktown High School Central School District. She has three classes of 10th graders with 23, 24, and 27 students. Then she has two classes of small self-contained English with seven, 11th graders and thirteen 11th graders. Mrs. Knopp has been given a grant from the state for 15 chrome books for the 2014 school year. 

The students who will receive the chrome books are in the self-contained English classes. The main reason why Mrs. Knopp is taking advantage of this grant, is because her students do not always complete their homework on time or at all. Now the students will get the chance to access their work during class and work independently. The reason why she did not get iPads, is because she needs the program Flash on her computer in order to run the applications she needs. 

Mrs. Knopp's Classroom Technology
Featured: SMARTboard 11 and a Dell Computer
She also has a personal iPad

Mrs. Knopp has a personal iPad she uses in the classroom, and her favorite and most effective app in the classroom is an interactive story of Edgar Allen's "The Raven" with pictures that help with comprehension. Her personal favorite app is iBooks because she also loves to read like Mr. Carrig. Mrs. Knopp is also an active edmodo user and is very interested in using socrative in the future!

Mrs. Knopp also loves using the SMARTboard whenever she is teaching her self-contained 11th grade English classes. She also runs a paperless classroom due to the presentations in prezi, homework and presentations  on google drive, and class assignments on echalk. 

Web 2.0 is often used in her classroom as well, she uses google drive often to share projects and homework with the teacher and other classmates. She uses e-chalk in the classroom too, but stopped using dropbox, because it would not allow the students to upload a project with pictures, therefore the class enjoys using the google drive app to upload their homework and projects. Mrs. Knopp teamed up with the library specialist this year and had the students learn how to clean up their digital footprint. For a couple of days, these students had the district block taken off of their computer and they learned how to change their privacy settings on social media websites.