Blog #3

           Because of my specific future career in Deaf Education, the ELA standards could be a little bit more difficult than for other teachers teaching my grade level. I am planning on teach elementary around 5th grade so I believe that teaching most of the core subjects such as math, science, and social studies should not be difficult for me to reach those technological standards. What I might have trouble with is the Standard 10 and Text Structure because of the difference in language between English and ASL.
           Since my students will be visual and hands-on learners I'd like to incorporate a Smartboard and class computers to give them a good hands on experience with technology and use the Smartboard to make lessons more vivid and fun. Students could also use the Smartboard to help me with problems and such up on the screen. On the computers we would use educational online websites assigned by the school and teach them about internet safety, around 5th grade is the age students start receiving their own personal laptops and should learn these safety parameters.
           From the Newsletter, I learned many things; I learned how to do page boarders, text boxes, how to manage columns, and how to use the mail merging tool in WS. I liked how easy it was to create mass letters with the mail merging tool and I know I will definitely use that in my future career sending notes and such home to parents informing them about class activities and schedules. I did not like how temperamental the columns themselves were on the page, effecting everything around it. Next time I will be more familiar with where everything is located and I can easily access those tools during my assignments.