Blog Post #1.

  " School Bus " by Kamoteus (A New Beginning)  is licensed under  CC BY 2.0  

Microsoft Word has been extremely helpful throughout my education in grades K-12 along with college level courses. During high school, MS Word helped me in times when studying for AP exams, grouping together resumes and applying to colleges. Microsoft Word makes it easy to download documents and annotate them efficiently. Without the ability to do this, my high school work would have been very unorganized. So far in college, MS Word has been beneficial to my work load by allowing me to highlight, underline and select different colors for fonts. I prefer using MS over google docs or pages mainly because I have a HP computer. Using pages sometimes gives me issues. Google docs and MS Word are both fairly similar but MS Word is simpler for me to download. The ISTE Standards for Educators is a great guide for helping students grow in different aspects of learning. One of the standards, leader, speaks to me the most as when I was in elementary school, I had a mentor who guided me through the...

Throughout this class I hope to learn the importance of the technology while being a teacher. As my goal is to become a teacher in the future, knowing the behind the scenes factors will be critical. I am curious to see the different platforms we will be using in this class and if it will directly relate to my daily life. I am also curious about how often teachers use this platforms and which ones are the most critical. I am a freshman in college and therefore do not have very much experience in the education field. I have used simple technology platforms and prior jobs but nothing directly related to education. I have used canvas and some other platforms in school but nothing very complex. I have used canvas in a teachers perspective and am curious if that is what the other platforms are like as well.  On a daily basis I use canvas, email and a variety of social media platforms to stay up to date on current events and school work. I use a digital and paper calendar to organize my w...