Tuesday, September 18, 2007

The Integration Corner

After exploring the Integration Corner section online, I discovered that there are so many tools available to make teachers lives easier. At first I thought, "What a shame that there are thousands of online tools, yet hardly any teachers know about them." When I become a teacher, I know the digital craze will be a large part of my classroom, so using online tools, like the lesson plan maker, will be habit to me. It is amazing that all these things are available to us at the click of a button. Since I am an elementary education major, I clicked that section and came to many more online tools specific to the elementary level.

Since my last blog post, I am becoming much better at making things, other than research papers and plain word documents on Microsoft Word 2003. Making this past weeks newsletter was a fun way of exploring all the different tools offered on the program. I learned to make banners and filling them with pictures, I also learned how to adjust collumns to format my teaching style. Also, discovering the website and integration corner is a great new way for me to get fun ideas and plans for my future classroom.

With the lesson plan website, teachers are able to select any subject and age, and build lesson plans and find clever teaching ideas right on their very own personal computers! It was so specific in picking a grade, a subject (such as science, art, etc...) and brought up tons of websites with project ideas and fun learning styles to introduce into your classroom. Even through this blog, I am learning that I have the ability to keep this websites, in an easily accessible place, to use someday when I actually am making my own lesson plans.

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