Week 3: Word (Citations was late)

According to the website I found a way to make my outlines more efficient and faster. This is a great creation to conducting a better form to writing a paper. I was very intrigued by how many different ways you can go about formatting a paper. I found a map, diagram and a tree like way of outlining a word document.  The tree like diagram interested me the most because of how you can move a “branch” to another “branch”. You can use this in any form of classrooms not just English or language arts classroom. I would find this program very beneficial to a student in all grade levels.     

            The best type of writing activities would be the brainstorming writing activity.  Most students have trouble with coming up with ideas to write about, with this program it allows you to be at a computer that may be accessible to the internet which you can browse the web for information about a particular topic.  Having one teacher revise and edit so many papers at a time is an issue. To organize time management you will need to implement peer editing. This will not only allow the teachers to do more of what they need to but it will increase responsibility for students for their own learning, and improve writing skills. You can use the tool that was introduced in this program. It’s easy and it doesn’t allow you to use pen and paper which could be beneficial to the younger kids with poor hand writing.  From past experience teaching on hand to my fellow classmates always helped me.  If you can teach something that means you are well aware of the material enough to teach someone else.  I knew the material well enough to teach it but I knew it even more after I taught it.  When teaching something it’s not only repetition but you may pick up on a step you might have missed doing it yourself.
            The program that was introduced to me today is an amazing program that I feel should be used on all levels of education.  Education technology is something we need in our schools and this program is one that I feel will be a big part in bettering or youths education.

Citation: Video that was given, Chapters 4-6 in textbook.