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My goal is to be an elementary school teacher, ideally in 1st or 2nd grade. There are many ways I can en corporate technology into my classroom to help teach. A way I have observed in the past and think would be awesome, would be to write stories on a word processor. My lesson plan would be focused on writing a story about whatever topic we decide on as a class. From there we would give descriptive words about the topic which I would type on the screen. The students would piece the words together and we would then write a story as a class. I would call on a few different students to give me a sentence about our main topic with one of the descriptor words and then i would type it up. We would do this for about a paragraph length of 2-3 sentences. After we wrote our paragraph and I addressed any questions, the students would then have to write their own paragraph based upon the one we did in class. The class one would be up there for the students to see and it was interactive to list the topics and words in a brainstorm and then go from there to write in a processor. I think that would be an awesome lesson and pictures and other things could be incorporated based upon time, or even the usage of Inspiration!

Since I am a bowler I decided to critique www.bowl.com which is a website encompassing all information possible about bowling and bowlers. Rule 1: the website balances the usage of words and pictures on the main page. They do have some extraneous ads that can distract from the main information. The page orients users and gives plenty of information through headers as to where you are. All text is justified to the left, so at least it is unanimous. The style is the same throughout the page, only differing in size. The color matches well with the background and the scheme flows. The sentences use upper and lower case properly, but the lines are not the shortest which can take away from some of the reading that will be done. The lines are evenly spaced which makes them look a lot better, and the structure is quite easy to follow with the bar at top giving simple directions to where you want to go. There is emphasis provided, and the audience is known and catered to because all of the people viewing this page are engaged in bowling in some way. Nothing flashes; they use lists and constant navigation, without stacked text. They have mainly pictures on the main page, but the screen is organized in a smart manner with size varying enough to get the point across.

Throughout school we have been exposed to the copyright rules in multiple classes. We have only one copy of some materials because of copyright laws or we had to go through forms to fill out in order to access certain objects. Most of the copyright laws came up in English, where we were also exposed to plagiarizing. We had to read many things in high school especially and had to write based upon the readings. We were allowed to quote or paraphrase only if we had proper documentation. As a teacher, I will go about using the proper guidelines to not infringe the copyright law and I will inform my students as much as I think they need to know. In elementary school the children are not as impacted by the laws as the teachers, and I will have to go about getting the movie, program, or information I need from other sources. I will need to get some information from other sources and with that I will be careful not to violate the authors rights and will obtain whatever I need to benefit my students the most. It may seem hard to get some materials but going by the rules will help me get what I want.