Blog 3

Welcome back to my blog ,


          This week we will talk about ELA technology standards that personally can be used with in my classroom. There are quite a few that I would love to implement with my students. The first would be connecting text to oral and visual representations. I feel like this would be great to implement because growing up in school I found it hard ti focus, however when my teacher would relate topics to visual representations I will truly begin to understand. I also reverted back to these images during my test, it is a great memory tool. This falls under multimedia literature, another aspect under this topic I would like to use would be comparing written story/drama/poem to audio, filmed stage, analyzing techniques such as sound color, camera focus/angle. We can use this in my classroom to also tie back to current media that relates to youth. When things are more personal, individuals tend to remember more and embed it in their memories.

 There is a plethora of technology that can used within the classroom. Specifically technology software/applications. I will provide an example of how it can used within my personal classroom. This class is an english class for high school sophomores, we can learn verbs and vocabulary words through online softwares like scramble or charades. Students love competition and will engage because of prizes and a change of just learning through the textbook. Also using storytelling through the application audible, it can be a great read along for the entire classroom.The age range of my class, tend to loose focus quickly and soft ware and applications such as this can really keep their attention, at least for a little while.

Finally for this week's blog post I would like to address the Newsletter I composed last week. I loved the assignment because I was able to partake in a real educator situation and add my own flare to it. In learned how to make columns and add pictures. I also learned how to make a border which I never knew how simple it all could really be. I would like to incorporate this in my classroom by conducting a monthly newsletter for parents that unfortunately do not have the time to be involved in thier child's schooling as frequently as they would like because of work obligations. An imporvement will be invluding my students masterpieces to my newsletter so it can relate more to the parents . I believe seeing your child's progression encourages the child to do better because they love encouragement from their parents.

Thank you for reading !

Barbarian Poodle