Ms.Emily's Blog

    I've been using Word for probably 6 years now. I used it starting in middle school for a poem assignment in english, and haven't really stopped since. Throughout my time on the yearbook staff in high school I used Word to write my stories before I put them in the final copy. Senior year I used Word almost everyday to write essays for my ENC 1101 class. Since starting college, I've discovered Google Docs and I think I prefer it over Word. I find navigating it to be easier and I like the more simplistic layout. Although when I submit assignments to Canvas that I've written in Google Docs, I save them to my computer as Word docs so I'm really just adding an extra step to doing work.     I love the ISTE standard that Educators are collaborators. This standard address that educators should collaborate with colleagues and students to discover and share ideas. I love the saying that you never stop learning and I think this standard aligns with that. While younger, stud...

     This spring semester I'm hoping to learn a lot from Introduction to Education Tech. I hope to refine my current technology skills and learn more about sites and tools I haven't used yet. I will take what I learn in this course and apply it in my future career as an Educator. Just looking at the syllabus, I know there are assignments we will be working through in this class that will be useful, and I will probably pull from and use in my classroom some day.      In high school, I was able to become proficient in most Microsoft tools, like PowerPoint and Word, as I used them all the time for assignments, projects, notes, and more. Similarly, I learned how to use Canva and have used it for many of my classes, high school and college. In college, I have become accustomed to using Google Calendar daily to be able to keep track of my classes, plans, assignments, etc.     As an Elementary Education major, I love to learn about anything related to ed...