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Since my future classroom will hopefully be kindergarten to first grade there isn't much software for them to personally use. Nor do I personally believe that a lot of technology should be implemented everyday in that young of a group. But, there is plenty of academic software that I can utilize as a teacher. Of course Microsoft products are on my list so that I can effectively create fun learning worksheets, lesson plans, and effectively email the same mail to hoards of parents. I think concept mapping may be helpful for me because sometimes I have trouble being organized with my thoughts so inspiration or bubbl may also be helpful. That may also be applicable to teaching with as well to display connections to the kids. If I'll be perfectly honest I am far from a social media person. I'm 21 and don't even have snapchat or anything similar. It took me a good year to finally download Instagram. It's just not my cup of tea. So, naturally it's hard for me to take...
I believe it's a daunting task to teach and teach well. ELA standards help set a focus on what character, independence, and content knowledge needs to be built in the student. There's always room to build upon when it comes to teaching; it's a constant learning experience. I feel like when it comes to creating the best student I can through ELA standards I have basic knowledge but could have a better understanding of all of them. CPALMS: CPALMS is a Florida specific tool for K-12 educators but can still be used nationwide. Within it there are educational resources to use like lesson plans and videos as well as resources for student such as educational games. Teachers can also is it as a planning tool for their classroom curriculum. Also, CPALMS was developed at FSU. Of course in the classroom having these extra tools, planners, and resources is extremely valuable. It also already goes with Florida standards to help guide my future classroom. I enjoyed being creative wit...
Open Terms: As said in the podcast open education is about making education experiences available to a wide source. Course material may be available free on the internet for example. Open Content allows inspiration for teachers as long as following copyright rules. There are four R's for this process: reuse, revise, remix, and redistribute. OER commons is an example of open content and specifies conditions for use. With open source it refers to software that is made available for anyone to access. These are helpful with people on limited budgets but not all are free. OER: These are all based on the belief set that everyone should have the right to high-quality education and resources. They help educators benefit by collaborating on material to further build their teaching capabilities.It also allows for modification of content, for example if a teacher needed to modify a word problem to be geographically relevant to their location. There are sets of rules for educa...
As a student, I've mainly used Microsoft Word as a means to write papers. Occasionally, it was used to create giant pretty letters with WordArt for poster board projects. Recently it a research class I had to create tables to place statistical data in and was a new skill for me to learn. I don't recall much more from my teachers than table creating, paper assignment creating, or showing how to edit a header/footer with Word products. I can't say I have any personal experience with copyright other than citations for projections and research papers if that even counts. Obviously I've probably used copyrighted material within school but it was never talked about in depth what is and is not acceptable. As a teacher it seems that I am allowed to use copyrighted material under "fair use" as long as it's the minimum amount I need to teach and benefits my students. It might be helpful to come up with more of my own material and use only what I need from copyrig...