Blog Journal 3

Since the use of language, in general, is multifaceted and multidisciplinary there are many areas of ELA standards that I feel I could implement in my classroom. However, stating this also goes to show that the fluidity of English also makes me limited to what standard I "truly" know how to use in my classroom. On the ELA Standards and Technology Matrix for Grades 6-12, I believe I would do a decent job at using technologies like Google maps and Google books. Creating maps, using Time magazines online, and TeacherTube I believe I could master as well, but technology always has a bit of a learning curve. I think I could use all of these technologies to strengthen English and grammar in my students, but I would have to practice.

In the CPALMS educator tool kit, I found many tools that would be extremely useful for 6th-grade geography. There are many boxes that include lesson plans related to STEM technologies. One that I would really enjoy is "3D printing pizza in Space!" when discussing earth science. Students would learn about protein and nutrition by examining NASA scientists and the explorations of 3D printing food. I think this is something that would make learning really fun for kids because the ideas would keep them engaged.

When reflecting on the newsletter design, I really liked it because I actually created a useful template for my future class. I actually learned how to used MS shapes and how to alter them in order to make my own banner which I thought was really neat. It is an easy method I can recurrently use in the future. Something I would change is to offer a couple different ways, maybe videos in canvas, to use certain tools. Although I can research how to do it on my own, there are always better ways to be efficient. Maybe not for the newsletter, but later in the semester I think it would be useful to have specific videos to reference.