Blog #4

Your fourth post should contain:
A paragraph on how you, as a teacher, might make use of the concepts presented in Chapter 7 and what technologies you would like to use to achieve these goals.
A paragraph addressing why or why not you would encourage or require your students to develop outline, idea map, and storyboarding skills.
A paragraph on new skills you acquired in the last week that you think will be especially useful to you in your educational career and why you think so.

I would use the concepts in chapter 7 to present the material to my students. I would use word, powerpoint, excel, and story board techniques to do this. I think these things are easy to understand and fun to learn with, as well as efficient to use for me. I like the idea of incorporating technology into my teaching.

I would encourage (not require) my students to develop an outline because I believe it would keep them more organized, which is important when writing and telling a story. I would not require this because then students will resent it, but I will certainly encourage it and emphasize how much it could help them. I think that once the students see what an advantage they will be at after developing an outline, they will be more inclined to do it in the future.

I have developed more web searching skills in the last week, and I think this will be extremely useful to me in my teaching career. I have become a much more efficient Google user, and this will help me get the right research material for my lessons with my students. I have also learned how to use Inspiration, which I have found to be not only a very fun program, but also a very useful tool in teaching my students anything from a lesson or concept to telling them a story. I think these tools and this newly acquired knowledge will come in handy in my future teaching career.