#3 - Tech Standards

Regarding ELA technology standards, the one that I feel most prepared to teach with my existing would be the standards regarding literature. These consisted of connecting text of story/drama to oral/visual presentations, comparing reading story/drama/poem to audio, video, or live version and having words and illustrations in print and digital text to understand character, setting and plot, to name a few. I feel as though the standards that I would need to prepare more for would be the multimedia standards like informational text, history/social studies, and science/technical subjects.

When I become a teacher, I hope to teach fourth or fifth grade. Knowing this age group allows me to use a larger array of software and applications in the classroom. I would like to stay away from using strictly internet based programs because they are fourth and fifth graders and I wouldn't want them to come upon something inappropriate by accident. I would most definitely use video and audio in my classroom. I know that some elementary schools offer the opportunity for students to go to a computer lab during designated class time, which I would take full advantage of because the schools have restrictions on certain websites. I believe this particular concept falls under the "netiquette" section of the digital citizenship guidelines (Lever-Duffy, McDonald, 224). Another way that I would help my students become good digital citizens is through the NetSmartz program, which is a good resource for teachers trying to guide our students in being good digital citizens (Lever-Duffy, McDonald, 225).

My Newsletter Design assignment was a rigorous assignment to say the least! I found it to be one of the harder assignments in EME 2040, but it was still very fun to me. The idea of organizing and setting up borders and titles has never seemed to be anything of importance to me in the use of Microsoft Word. I feel as though I will use the skills I learned in this assignment when writing newsletters in my future classroom. I had trouble figuring out to separate the flyer into columns; I had so much trouble I ended up not even doing that! I created a 1x2 table, and then "erasing" the borders. I will most definitely use the skills I gained from this assignment in the future.