Blog Post 3

I think teaching the ELA Technology standards will be a somewhat difficult process due to most students today only knowing the basics when it comes to using a computer for educational purposes. For my intended major and my backround history with technology, I feel that the easiest to teach would be RHST.7. This would be easiest for me to teach because it involves probably the simplest factors when it comes to teaching history. If I had to instruct students to find historical data, the easiest way for them to find it would be to look it up on google, specifically google scholar. The most difficult one for me to teach would perhaps SL.2. This one would be more difficult for me teach mainly because of the increasing difficulty and diversity of ways to teach this standard.

Teaching high school history classes will emphasize an overwhelming need to use technology. For me, as a teacher, I would like to use email as an easy and effective way for communication. I feel like email was a really helpful and effective means of communication for me in high school. I would also utilize the school provided website for grades and assignments. I would use this as an alternative means for communication if my students had trouble with email. In the classroom, I would utilize educational learning websites that involve blogs, and mash-ups to help students grasp an understanding of the subject matter. I would also use tools such as media, videos, and fun learning websites like kahoot to hopefully raise the chances of student interaction in the lesson. Through the students use of these technological academic learning tools, I will be able to see if the students are demonstrating proper digital citizenship concept. I'll make sure that the students have a general understanding of the required technological skills when it comes to surfing the web while protecting their personal information and obeying copying laws. I will also make sure that my students follow proper netiquette while participating in the classroom and the web community.

The Newsletter Design assignment really improved my skills when it comes to technology. It challenged me in a way I've never been challenge before when it comes to technology. I think the skills I was happiest to acquire from this assignment would have to be place a text in a 2 column format. I always wondered how teachers were able to do that when they made news letters. Now I know this skill which I will utilize to manage space on future Classroom Newsletters. Another skills I was happy to acquire from this assignment was the ability to place graphics in specific places. I was a novice when it came to doing this. Before I learned how to place a graphic over or under text, I would place where in the text and just write around it. Now that I know how to place graphics in certain places, I will be able to utilize this skill for when I actually become a teacher. The next time I make a newsletter, the one area I would like to improve in is graphic choice and color choice. I feel like my Newletter could've been more eye-popping and appealing and it just didn't live up to the potential.