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I feel comfortable with most of the ELA standards. I am an ICT major so I have been working with these technologies for years, but this class is really helping me understand how to use these technology skills in a classroom setting. Multimedia literature is one I’m the most comfortable with. This is the incorporation of graphics, videos, and audio into the text to facilitate a better understanding of the information. I am quite knowledgeable in the science and technology subjects, but I could use a better understanding of language arts and history.

In my own classroom I hope to incorporate a lot of different technologies into the lessons. One would be the Smart Board because it’s a great tool to add interest to the information and keep the students engaged. I would definitely have my students use Microsoft word and PowerPoint for assignments and creating presentations. I would use google plus to keep in contact with all my students. I would have a Google + community for each class, for students to post questions and share any course related information. The students must be well informed on digital citizenship in order to communicate effectively on these online platforms. Everything posted will be monitored by me, and cannot ever be inappropriate or offensive. This can be used with grades middle school and up.

I really enjoyed the newsletter assignment. Before completing it, I would have always thought of a take home parent newsletter in a physical form. With all of the technology we possess in this age it would be much simpler and more effective to either email all of the parents this newsletter, or even set up a class blog that the students and parents could have access to. This would allow me to include an email link to my personal email, and provide links to any other information related to the class. MY assignment would have been more detailed if this was in an actual classroom setting because I would have real content for a real class.