What is mouse mischief..?
Each student in the class room gets a mouse and they interact on a shared display at the front of the room.
The teacher is in control of the mouse mischief application .Imagine interactive PowerPoint slides where students can do activities on PowerPoint slides designed by the teacher. Mouse mischief reads PPT and PPTX files .Mouse mischief is and application that uses the multipoint comcept.They include world Tile, Math Game etc.If you have over 40 students in a class room we can each pair of students sharing 1 mouse.
Each student in the class room gets a mouse that is connected to the computer doing the presentation. They should not touch their mice until the instructor stars mouse mischief .exe.
Once application is running, the students can use their mice. One the mouse mischief logo score the teacher must enter the mouse password (LLRLLR by default)The teacher chooses a PowerPoint file to open .The file listed here are from the “lecture” folder. Select grade six math lesson.(Decimal )
Teacher chooses a class list .These is listed from the “Class” folder and store the list of the students in the class. The user experience is much better when the actual students’ names are being used. The students choose their cursor icons .The teacher presses “Right arrow” key on keyboard.
The students choose their name. The teacher presses “Right
arrow” key on keyboard.
The teacher goes through the PowerPoint presentation .Using
the menu any time they want by Up –arrow
on keyboard .
I hope to use mouse mischief application software to teach
decimal to grade 6 students. Introduce the relationship between decimal and fractions
are the main objective of the lesson.
This
software helps the students to internalize the basic concepts decimals
Students have to answer the question within the ten seconds
and click the connect answer. Then students in the class is given a chance ten
second mousses of the students will be
locked and teacher selects the answer.answer. Marks will be awarded to the students
who give connect answers.
Shaded picture is given in the 5 th slide .Area of five
tenth is shaded .Students have to click true or false .If the answer is
correct marks will be awarded to the
students.
Students
have to match the shaded picture with the correct fraction
At random teacher selects some students and gets them to
match the pictures with the correct fraction. Students will be the awarded
marks. Students will be given many activities to do. And give them a feedback.
Display the answer slide.
They
have to click the correct answer within ten seconds.
Students will be awarded marks and display the marks in the
class room.
Get them to writes hundredth as decimals
They will be given a keypad and they can fill the blank using the keypad.
They will be given 20 minutes.
Answer..
4 Students can be given chance to drag and answer. They will
point out the connect answer and students will be given marks if they answer correctly.
By using the keyboard and given chance to complete the table. At random teacher selects students and point out the blank that they should answer. Students will write the answer.
Display the answer slide and hold a discussion .More and
more examples will be given by teacher
for orally and students answer accordingly.Students marks will be displayed in the scoreboard. This
scoreboard will help to identify the students with difficulties and provide
they will more activities to clarity the doughts.
