Blog Post 3:
For the ELA technology standards, I feel very familiar with Web
Enhancement tools such as ClassDojo and Quizlet. As in classrooms that I have
volunteered with in the past, especially elementary schools have used these
enhancement options to promote class involvement and engagement in learning.
Teachers often use Twitter and Facebook to share information within the realm
of education and communication. Teachers in the past have even used these
social bookmarking networks to inform their students of upcoming assignments
and what is going on in the classroom. These tools are extremely helpful and relevant
because growing up in this generation using social media is a very common occurrence.
While I am unfamiliar with using blogs
and podcast in an educational way, so that would be the technology that I would
need to brush up on and become more familiar with before I used it in my
classroom. Using forums such as Portal as a way for students to check their
grades is very helpful and I look forward to using it in my classroom soon. Videos are useful and I know how to use
websites with videos that have already been created. However, using my own
videos and creating and editing them for classroom use is something that I need
to brush up on.
I intend on teaching at the elementary school
level of students soon, therefore the level of technology advanced software
that would be used by the children would be at a minimum. However, as a teacher
of young children, the more technology and interactive software that is used
within the classroom more than likely the children will be supervised always
while using any technology device. But
children, no matter their age are never too young to learn the importance of
being safe on the internet and learning the proper netiquette. There are ins and
out to the internet and these things will be part of the lessons that I teach
my future students so that they can always be safe online. Working on a
computer is a doorway to a new world, and it is very important that students
learn and are informed about this digital citizenship/ presence that they have
online. Talking to my students about copyright and giving credit to a source is
something that will be useful for the rest of their lives. Overall learning
just how to navigate the internet for both personal and educational purposes
because there is a difference between the two. Acting in a responsible and
polite manner with anyone and everyone that they encounter with while online. The
choices and things that a child does online, right or wrong will follow them
for the rest of their life.
Working on the newsletter assignment was
very intresting for me, I had never created a newsletter before especially not
one that pertained to education and my own classroom. I really enjoyed this
assignment because it made me feel like an actual teacher that had my own
class. This assignment allowed me to use techniques on Word that I do not
commonly do such as shading an area and using columns within the letter. Next
time I would like to add more color and more relevant clip art images. Maybe even
one day I can include images from my own classroom/ students in the newsletter.
I feel that a newsletter is going to be very helpful and informative for the
parents of my students. I wish that more parents would use newsletters to
communicate what is going on in the classroom and share it with everyone. The more
informed parents are I feel that they will be more comfortable sending their
students to school every day.
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