Blog #3

Of the ELA Tech Standards, I feel that I would be most comfortable incorporating the Multimedia informational text standard. This is because I'm a fairly visual learner and feel that the aids mentioned in this section are ones that I would benefit most from personally and therefore I would most easily connect to and be able to carry out for my students. The one that I think would require the most learning would the the Multimedia Science/Technical Subjects one. This is because I am not too skilled in this field and have noticed gaps in knowledge on my part through my studies in the past. That makes me feel that I would need to put work into this area in order to properly use it as a teacher. I have always needed help incorporating data into these graphs and tables before so I need to fine tune that. I feel that I would most use blogs and wikis for my class as a teacher. I am an English major, so I would most likely teach in this field. I also prefer middle or high school aged students, so I think that blogs and wikis would be effective in aiding the material we would be covering. I think the middle/high school age group is also one that would best fit the digital citizenship guideline stating that "Student participation in the community is meaningful, appropriate, and on topic and advances the community as a whole." The students are old enough at this point to be held accountable for this and I think it is relevant to blog and wiki usage. Honestly, a lot of the newsletter assignment was a refresher for me because I remember learning a lot of it when I was little in Computer Class and we were learning about Microsoft Office Programs. It was good to review it all, though, because I realized that I really forgot a lot of things like borders and formatting. I really liked the opportunity to learn how to format a newsletter like this and feel it can be improved next time through more effort on the shading of boxes and using nicer pictures. I definitely learned useful things for my career here in that I will be able to make newsletters like this in any field.