#3- Third time the charm?

I feel most prepared to meet standards RL.7 and RI.7. Both of these standards are “consuming tech standards” and I feel like I have enough knowledge about incorporating technology into literature and informational text to adequately meet these standards. The standard that I feel I need more preparation for is W/WHST.6 which includes using technology to produce and publish writing.

Based on Chapter 9, I would like to use several technology software/applications that I read about in my classroom. I will most definitely be using email on a regular basis to communicate with my students’ parents. During class I will incorporate resources for research and discovery, like search engines (Google), mashups (Google Earth), and multimedia (videos, graphics, audio). When using these tools it will be important for me to remind students how to correctly use other people’s work without copyrighting or plagiarizing. I will also need to keep digital citizenship concepts in mind, and make sure that I am using these tools in an appropriate way that furthers my students learning experience. The age range that I hope to teach is 7-8, so some internet resources like discussion groups and chats would not be appropriate for me to use with students of this age. With this being said, I can use discussion groups with other teachers. This can be very beneficial to have this communication to share ideas and opinions with other people in my profession.

I loved working on the Newsletter Design assignment and learned a lot through the process. I loved that we had the freedom to be creative and design the kind of newsletter that we wanted, as long as it followed the rubric. The things that I learned from this assignment are very important for my future career, because as an elementary teacher I will be sending out weekly newsletters to my students parents. It took me a lot of trial and error to format the newsletter with columns. Eventually I figured it all out, and gained a lot more knowledge about putting columns in word documents. The thing that I didn’t particularly like about the assignment is that it had to pertain to a particular grade and age. I understand that completing the assignment in this way is practical since a newsletter does concern one grade level, but it was difficult for me because I haven’t gotten into my major yet and ended up spending a lot of time researching what kind of information would be age appropriate to include. I’m still working on my newsletter, but below is what I have gotten done thus far.