3 Hyperlink CrAzY

I know this graphic is small (I tried to resize it but I just can't figure out why it isn't working.). Click here for a version you can zoom in and out on. I found this infographic very helpful for my newsletter assignment this week. It's clean and sensible. I agreed with the pairings of fonts as well as the ones you were told not to use ever. I feel, however, that the creator should have had some kind of key telling the names of the fonts shown in order to maximize effectiveness.

Base on chapter 9, I will begin by teaching my second graders about digital citizenship using videos such as the BrainPop video we watched and some of the NetSmartzKids.org games via our Edmodo group. I believe it is utterly important for children to understand that it is almost impossible to get anything off the internet, and that they should really monitor what goes out. That was one of the main focuses of the BrainPop Video. Then I plan on using several other websites for other learning experiences.

Working on the newsletter assignment I mentioned above has been a struggle but a really fun struggle. I've enjoyed all the formatting skills I've learned. I am really easily amused and was grateful to have learned how to include a hyperlink in a Microsoft Word Document. I think this assignment definitely got me more excited to become a teacher. I can't wait to be able to write newsletters without having to pull the stories up out of make-believe thin air!

2 You can borrow this blog as long as you're not getting paid...

If you went to school at all in the 2000s, there’s almost no doubt in my mind that you’re familiar with Microsoft Word. If you’re anything like me, you’ve sworn by it for the past decade. Microsoft Word is one of the easiest tools to use in regards to writing papers, making brochures, creating resumes, sending formal letters, creating invitations and so much more. I still use Microsoft Word on an almost daily basis to make organized checklists for my scatterbrained self. I’m looking forward to using Microsoft Word to keep mundane information interesting by way of different templates and tricks I hope to learn in this class.

I personally wasn’t very familiar with the real definition of copyright and had never even heard of “fair use” until this class. In school, I was taught that if you didn’t cite your sources, you could be sued for copyright infringement. That was something I was glad to hear isn’t necessarily required by law. I think once I’m a teacher if there’s anything I can do to save other teachers time and effort, I will because teaching is tedious work and we should all be in it together. In order to help out other teachers, I’d license my work with Creative Commons, allowing others to use it and cut out some of their planning time.

I’ve been on Twitter almost as long as it’s been around so I honestly haven’t learned too much from using it in class. I’m hoping that by the time I begin teaching, there’ll be an educational social media site sort of like Twitter to which only licensed teachers can grant access. That would be a great way to allow protected and monitored communication between students for group projects, study guides (because who really does those alone?) and so much more. Maybe that’s my next million-dollar-idea.