Hayden's Blog

 So far, expanding my Personal Learning Network has been very helpful. I followed many high school English teachers for ideas on lesson plans, classroom designs, and how to better communicate to students. It is beneficial to me to see teachers loving their job and staying creative while teaching their students. Sometimes, I get frightful that I might not be a great teacher and I my students won't be engaged with my teachings, but the other English teachers make me feel more confident in my teachings and inspire me to always be learning alongside my students. My school that I attended K-8 was pretty digitally poor. There was 0 Chromebook carts the first 3 years of opening, with more and more being added throughout the years. There was one computer lab with enough computers for one class and not every teacher had a smart board/projector when the school first opened. My kindergarten year was the first year the school opened, so they were not super prepared for a large amount of studen...

 Since copyright can be such a confusing subject with a system that pretty much goes by a case by case ruling, I would make sure to teach copyright very early in the year. This why, if any issues arise where students may need a license or need to cite someone properly, the lesson would have already happened, and the process can be much smoother because of it. Another benefit of teaching copyright early in the year is that the subject matter is not high-intensity. Although it can be confusing, students won't get worn out if that lesson is taught early in the year. I would probably teach it very similarly to how I was taught; first going over each symbol and title, then going into an example of using one and how to get one yourself. I am still confused on one thing: if someone tries to use an image that does not have a Creative Commons license attached, how are we supposed to credit the creator? My chosen issue is lack of funding, as I have had experiences at schools where there is a...

 I have used Microsoft Word as my main word processing software my whole life. I have only used Google Docs a handful of times, and I much prefer Word. This may be biased as I got used to Word at a young age, but I still love to use Word. After the tutorial of how to use Word to make a newsletter, I have been enjoying using it a lot more. Wrapping images around the text and using columns has made Word so much more accessible for me and now I enjoy using it even more. The most important ISTE Standard for me is Collaborator. My favorite classes throughout high school and college have been the ones where the teacher feels equal student. That is not to say that the teacher does not have authority in the class, but the teacher wants to learn along with the students. In my Asian American Literature class here at FSU, my professor has the seats arranged in a circle, and he sits in one of them. The class is designed to feel as if the professor is another student, learning from us and us le...

In this class, I hope to learn useful computer skills and programs that help me become the best teacher that I can be. Technology can be such a useful tool when used properly in education, and I am really glad that courses like this are offered to future educators. There are many websites that teachers can use to their advantage to create a fun, exciting, and engaging classroom, but, unfortunately, they go unnoticed by many educators and never used to their full potential. With the skills that I learn in this class, I hope to be able to use these tools in the future while I am teaching. I will have to write all of the names of the websites down and their purpose, to create the best learning experience possible. " Secured Computer " by  Leonardo Rizzi  is licensed under  CC BY-SA 2.0 . For a short period of time, in my junior year of high school, I taught ESOL alongside my cousin (who is an English teacher) and other volunteers. In that class, we divided the students into ...