Blog #3

The ELA technology standards I feel most prepared for teach elementary, or Kindergarten through 6th grade ELA standards. While I know how to use different forms and multimedia works, in order to actually teach it to others I think I need more help on visual graphics. Kindergarten through 6th grade is pretty basic use of the internet, different medias, and different presentations. I am already up to date on the knowledge that these ELA standards include, so I feel comfortable teaching them.

I think one of the tools in the CPALMS Educator Toolkit that I would like to use are the standards themselves. This way, I would know what criteria that I have to teach. To me, this is helpful to refer to the minimum skills that are needed to be taught in order to keep my students up to date. These standards would help me to formulate my lesson plan, even if not getting every detail. This would give me some guideline on what to teach, and form there I could go whatever way I wanted to, and what topics I wanted to go more in depth on. So, definitely the tool I would use the most in the CPALMS Educator Toolkit would be the standards to help to to understand what I need to teach

From the Newsletter document I made, I learned how to use many new features on Word. For example, I now know how to insert images, turn my text into two columns, add a border and a banner, and many more features. I liked how there are so many features on Word, however I feel like I know my way around google drive more than I do on Microsoft Word. From this assignment of the newsletter, i learned how to organize information in an aesthetically pleasing way. I will be able to use this in the future to make actual newsletters for my classroom, flyers, or simply just wall decorations. This assignment taught me many useful skills with simply how to better with word, but can be used so much throughout my life.