Monitoring and Adjusting

I thought the 'smart board' lessons were very well done and creative. In terms of monitoring, I noticed that when the class was not 'getting it', the teachers used verbal prompts to help get things started, and this really helped. When the 'smart board' was not working, teachers had to work directly off the computer which I could tell had some teachers (including myself) doing some improvising. I also think some teachers omitted or went through their material a little quicker than planned towards the end due to the time limit. I think everyone just worked with it instead of panicking, which is a good quality to have considering students and technology are unpredictable. Teachers need to be flexible and think on their toes because at the end of the day they are responsible for teaching their students, and if a teacher is unable to change things up to ensure the class is going smoothly and material is being understood, the students will lose and the teacher will get frustrated.
Lesson Plan on capitalization and punctuation: If I had a second chance at my lesson, I would like to try using the 'smart board' features. My lesson required the students to come up to the board and use the pen and touch screen, and when it was not working, I did more of an oral lesson with me circling and dragging because I needed to right click the mouse to change between the pen and select option. However, I think I was still able to accomplish the task at hand. If I were to change a component of my lesson, I would put the grey screen on the actual interactive screen and work through the paragraph line by line. Although I asked the class why we capitalized the first letters of names, I failed to ask why the pronoun 'i' should be capitalized.
I enjoyed the lesson plans and got some good ideas from them. I really appreciated my classmates willingness to participate and be actively involved so as to not leave the teacher hanging. I think it also served as a good class bonding exercise because we saw the creativity of our classmates.