EME2040

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One of the ELA standards I feel prepared the most to teach would be the use of texts featured in popular media. Starting out as a young teacher I feel like this would be easiest for me for two main reasons. First because my use of technology will be up to date and I will be able to keep up with the young students in my classroom. Keeping up with the growth of technology will benefit me and my students when it comes time to use the technology in the classroom. The second reason is because I will be right out of college I will still be updated on the social trends that are influencing my students. These texts can be found anywhere from images on Facebook, videos on twitter or even an articles found on a blog. The use of popular media in the classroom I feel sometime goes unnoticed. I think a major thing about using popular media is that ability to connect with your class on social level. With that connection I feel like students are able to see how things they do in their everyday lives ...

As a student I have used Microsoft Word since I can remember. In elementary school we had a computer class to learn and practice these skills using word, powerpoint and excel. In this class we would work on objectives like using the different fonts or how to set up a certain style of research paper. This class has benefited more than I would have thought. Looking back that computer class may have seem pointless at the time but did teach me real life skills that I still use today. As for my teachers I think they used Word more than I did. All of my assignments, quizzes, project outlines and rubrics were all manufactured using Word. This gave my teachers easy access to change what they wanted and the ability to save their work for following years. I have had a lot of experience with Copyright. Since the internet has been a huge part of my school career my teachers have taught a lot about it. As a young student each year we have an assigned class where we would review the rules of plagia...