Entry Five: MS Word

When it comes to MS Word 2007 I really like it. I grew up using Microsoft products, so using the new updated version of the program was easy for me to use. Some things were made a lot easier to use, and all you have to do is just look around a little bit because some of the things that you already knew about could just be moved around. I definitely think that MS Word is an important educational tool, as technology's uses grow so does their demand in the working world to know how to use these programs so teaching students in classrooms is very important. Don't get me wrong I don't think it should be the only educational tool that the students are taught to use but it is a pretty important one. When I first started making my flyer and newsletter I thought that it was going to be easy, I have worked with word a lot since before this I have only had PCs. Setting it up with a banners, as well making sure that all of the fonts that I used worked with each other instead of against each other. Also making sure that you use a lot of different colors to make sure that you are able to grab the readers attention, but not any outlandish colors that would confuse them and make it harder to read. Once I got it set up the rest was so much easier.




Article: Symons, Duncan. "Using Microsoft Word To Teach Area." Australian Primary Mathematics Classroom 16.3 (2011): 20-24. ERIC. Web. 6 Aug. 2015.

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Website: http://www.slideshare.net/jbacon/word-processingtips

Entry Four: Web Site Design

When it comes to web sites in the classroom I think that it is okay to use them every once in a while, but not to completely rely on them. I think that classroom web sites can be an important means of communicating with parents and students, depending on the economic means that your students families are living with. Not all families have the ability to use a computer and you don't want to have it so that one or even more students feel left out of what is going on outside of the classroom. If I were to set up a classroom web site, I would use Google Sites after learning how easy it was during this past week. 

Article: Vazquez, Gustavo, and Stephen P. Victor. "Designing A School's Web Site Using Information Architecture." (2000): ERIC. Web. 4 Aug. 2015.

                       http://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED444583


Web site: http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2013/04/10-excellent-platforms-to-create-your.html