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Personally, I feel more prepared towards Social Sciences than I do for teaching ELA, because technology in social studies can be much more interactive (maps) and creative than it can in ELA. However, if I were to pick an ELA technology that I feel most comfortable teaching, it would probably be writing because I feel like that is much easier to integrate the use of technology into with programs such as Microsoft Word.

In the classroom, I would really like to use interactive programs and softwares to keep my students thoroughly active and engaged in each class. Examples of ones that I have used personally are Kahoot and Google Docs, as these allow for question responses, discussions, or other ways to stay actively participating. When it comes to digital citizenship, I will address issues such at "netiquette" by ensuring that students are using the programs kindly and properly by making sure most online work is done within the classroom. With copyright laws, I will do my best to limit the use of material that belongs to others', and will support the creation of tables, images, etc; especially considering I want to teach high school, so I will feel comfortable asking my students to do something like that.

I felt that the newsletter assignment was very helpful, however, I was really unfamiliar with most of the features that we were taught for this assignment so it was all very new to me. I really liked how relevant this assignment was, because as a teacher, I will definitely be making newsletters often, so learning how to do so is very vital to my future career. Next time, I think I will look up other aspects or effects to include in a Microsoft Word newsletter to make it a bit more interesting, but I was very happy with the way it turned out, regardless.


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