Blog Post #3

Hey guys,
Finally after three terrible weeks of feeling sick I'm finally cured. Yay!

I am going to start of the post by talking about which ELA technology standards I feel most comfortable as of now teaching. I feel most comfortable with "multimedia" literature, specifically how to connect text of a story to an oral and visual presentation. I feel best with this skill because I enjoy being creative while making presentations. I like talking context from a story or a play and creating a visual presentation which makes the subject easier to learn. One of the ELA standards I feel I need more work on before I feel comfortable teaching it is "multimedia" science and technical subjects. I am not very good making graphs, charts, diagrams, or tables. I feel like most of these need Excel to make and be successful at. I feel my weakest Microsoft program is Excel.

Based on chapter nine I feel like the technology application/software I would use with my students would be maybe a literature blog. My overall goal is to teach English Lit on the high school level. I believe that creating a blog site for my students will help them learn more about technology while giving analysis about their reading. I may steer away from social networks depending on how my students act. I feel like setting up a class twitter, like this class, will help my students learn how to use technology is a safe creative way, but I can see how some students might abuse that social media assignment. I also don't know if a high school teacher is technically allowed to set up a twitter for their students.
Due to the age range of the students I want to teach( 14-18) I feel like the most important digital citizenship guideline would be to "communicate clearly and precisely without rudeness and inappropriate interaction". I believe in this new age of technology some people use social media to spread hate. I want my students to learn not to spread hate. I want them to learn how to have a light hearted debate and keep it civil. I believe technology should be used for the purpose of spreading information and positive thinking; not hate.

I learned a lot of new things from doing the Newsletter assignment. Now nobody laugh okay, but Taehyeong taught me how to double click on my Mac. I know it's not an amazing skill, but it is something I never knew how to do before. Another skill I learned was how to set up the two column set up on Word. I learned how to adjust the text and shapes through "wrap text" key. I really enjoyed how creative I got to be for this assignment. I definitely think there are a lot of techniques in this assignment that I can improve at. Like the column alignment and how to make everything fit perfectly on the page. I definitely think that this assignment will come in handy for my future career. I am excited to see how I can use these skills in my own classroom. Below you will find my newsletter, I made it a permission slip for an expedition day! Its not the best, but I am proud of my work.
Till Tuesday,
Bella Alvarez