Blog Post #3

After going through the ELA Technology Standards, one section in particular stood out to me, RST.7. I would feel most comfortable teaching this because I have always held an affinity for sciences, and using any resource possible to convey that information. I am familiar with the usage of graphs, models, and diagrams and so forth when it comes to presentations. Visual aids have always been helpful when I was learning about any science, and I have been able to navigate the resources at my disposal to accurately find what i am looking for that would aid me in teaching a class. The rest of the standards i could use some work on, honestly, but in particular I would need assistance with RL.5, using digital media to teach a classroom has never been my ideal method, and I am unsure of how I would even begin to do so.

Teaching a higher level Science course (for high schools) would require me to use all of my resources for creating a presentation for the students. I would use Wikis for the students so that they could be shown all relevant material and beyond for their own curiosities and have them make an online blog of their experiences in the classroom. Blogs are a good method of having students think critically about what they are learning, even if it is for themselves, it will create a better understanding of the subject material. A digital citizenship guideline I would like to reinforce among the age bracket I would be teaching is to not steal other peoples work. This is a crucially important life lesson, as the consequences of plagiarism are very serious and should not be taken lightly by students who are regularly assigned homework and papers.

The newsletter assignment was... interesting. I am not sure if I learned anything too valuable or was shown things I did not already know. I can say I did learn how to make columns, specifically how not to ruin the format and layout of a paper by editing columns which i hope will be useful. Much of the assignment was trial and error for me, figuring out what would work and what does not given my knowledge of Word, and eventually I was able to create a creative newsletter design. I understand the necessity of the assignment and I appreciate what it is trying to do, but for me it was an overall bleh thing to do, and sadly I do not even have a copy of my newsletter I created. I created it on a school computer and submitted it there as well, so I am not sure how I would gain access to the same file on my home computer.