Blog Journal 3

• A paragraph on which ELA technology standards you feel most prepared to teach with your existing knowledge and which require more learning on your part. People tend to think the ELA is soley based on Language Art, reading, and writing. ELA stands for Enlish Language Arts, so it makes sense that many people may believe that it is based on reading and writing. ELA is actually way beyond that. ELA is incorporated in every class in the school system. Every class includes reading, writing, and speaking. I plan on teaching first grade, so I looked into the ELA technology standards for this grade. The technology that I feel the most comfortable with teaching to my class include using online scavenger hunts, simple text features, kid-friendly websites, online textbooks, smartboard, blogs, and smartphones. The technology I need to learn on my part to improve my classroom include promethean board activities, pxlr, storyjumper, and mp3 recorder. I am excited to learn about these different types of techonology!
• The resource within the CPALMS Educator Toolkit that I would use is the different student resources to help teach science. I would use all of the different resources included within this. It gives me great ideas on lessons and how to teach it. They incorporate tutorials within with is very useful. Different examples of the resources within first science include Magnification, temperature, seeing stars, parts of a plant, and many more. The CPALMS will be very useful for me because these tutorial give me step by step ways to education the children in my classroom.
• The Newletter Design assignment was filled with many new skills I was not very good at. I was not aware how to add a date automatically or add borders. I also was not sure how to use WordArt. I liked making this newsletter because I know I will be making them in the future for my class. I did not like that it was graded so harshly because I believe that Newsletters are supposed to be unique and that made it a little less unique. Although, I do understand that it was created to make sure we knew how to use all the tools within Word. I will use all of these tool I learned in the future because word is so prevalent as a student and as a teacher.

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