Blog Post #3

The ELA technology standard that I feel most prepared to teach with my existing knowledge would be standard RL.7 “Multimedia:” Literature. In this standard, you must teach students the differences between different medias and how they can change the meaning of different information. For example, different elements can be shown in a movie that were not read about in a book. For example, the movie The Hunger Games has different events happen that were not in the book and vice versa. I know how to compare these elements in all medias and I feel that I could successfully teach them to my class with the knowledge I have now. Standard SL. 5 “Use Digital Media” would be a standard that would require more learning on my part. I do not know how to make audio recordings and display visual presentations with it.  

The applications/software I would like to use with my second-grade students would be search engines. I would use these to teach students how to search for information. For example, the Federal Resources for Educational Excellence is a great search engine that has great resources that are reliable. The digital citizenship concepts I would teach to my students would be all of them but I would not over load them because they are still young. I would teach my students how to properly use the internet and all other computer based resources we would use by showing them how to do it. I would also teach them that what is put on the internet stays there forever, so you should never say rude or mean things on the internet. Also, that is not a good to put personal information on the internet because you do not want strangers to know personal things about yourself. I think the best way for students to learn these concepts would be to practice on a worksheet or to verbally go over good and bad things to do on the internet and have them say what the situation is. If it is bad I would have them explain why it is not okay to do that on the internet.

The new skills I acquired while working on the Newsletter Design assignment was how to make a newsletter have two columns. I also learned how to insert a border to further add to the visual element of a newsletter. In the future, I could use this assignment to send out monthly newsletters to parents to inform them on what is going on in the classroom, and it is a great way to send out permission slips. I enjoyed this assignment because it allowed me to be creative and make something that I could possibly use in the future. There is nothing I did not like or that I would change. The example newsletter that was provided was extremely helpful.