One of the tools in the CPALMS Educator Toolkit that I would use would be the Curriculum Planner. This tool basically does part of the teaching job for you. It helps recommend lesson plans and courses based on what curriculum you teach, while being aligned with your academic calendar. It follows state standards snd recommends resources from peers and experts. It makes the planning part of being a teacher a lot easier. It's more convenient, with just a few clicks you can have a whole lesson planned. Your lesson plans can be easily edited, and it can be exported through Microsoft Word. I would use this to help take some stress off. This tool will help recommend ideas that I could use and it would help me stay organized.
I learned how to use a lot of new tools making my newsletter. I learned how to use shading and insert working hyperlinks which was super cool. I also learned how to get the body of my text to separate into columns and that was interesting to me. I really liked this assignment and would love to make more. This assignment made me look forward to being a teacher so I can make newsletters to send home to parents. I definitely need to work on my spacing and trying to not have a lot of white space. I was struggling with that a little, but tried to take up most white space. Whenever I become a teacher I will definitely send home newsletters to inform parents what's happening in the classroom.
It looks like you figure out a way to get rid of the white highlight by changing the background color to white. Although I can see the format is still there, it is invisible. Good job!
ReplyDeleteYes, you may be not familiar with the specific technology, but it doesn't matter. The standards determine the competencies, and the technology listed is simply just an example. Once you are competent in the competencies, you should be able to figure out the technology component fairly easily.