Nowadays, technology is very important in the classroom, and is an important tool for a teacher. The Lenovo tablet has been a very important tool in my Kenan Fellows experience overall. I have used it in the classroom, out of the classroom, and taken it everywhere I go. I like it because it is small and handy; I can take it anywhere, and use it anywhere.

At school I have use it all the time and specially when implementing the Shark Teeth Case Study I designed for my 6th graders. I wrote and saved the lessons in this tablet, used the tablet to project learning targets, diagrams, pictures on the classroom screen.

Additionally, I was able to attach the Dino-Lite Camera to this tablet so students could take measurements of very small shark teeth, take pictures of them and project it on the screen so the whole class could see the small shark teeth measurements. Very cool!

I continuously use my tablet for emails, communication, creating data tables, graphs for analysis of data, create infographics, and power point presentations. To inform about the Shark Teeth Case Study I have already created a power point presentation using this tablet. The Fossil Club I coordinate has also been using this tablet, together with the Dino-lite Camera.

Additionally, I have been taking my tablet to Conferences and presentations. Recently, our school was invited to present our “Tracking Turtles” project at the Legislature Building, and presented a power point of it using this tablet. I also presented this project in the San Jose Citizen Science  Conference through a power point I had made with this tablet. the nice thing was that I was able to make videos of my students and in-bedded the videos in the power point; I couldn’t take students to the conference so I videotaped them for the conference. I also made videos of students reflecting about “being scientists” (the files too big to upload here).

The Lenovo tablet has been a great “companion”.