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As an Elementary School teacher, I might be responsible to teach kindergarten students their abc's. As a part of my lesson plan teaching this, I could make great use of Microsoft Power Point. Using a projector, I could project the powerpoint onto the whiteboard and ask students to identify letters as the come up. I could give each letter its own slide, and include both the capitol and lowercase version of the letter, along with clipart/pictures starting with the letter and have students identify the image. For example, I could have the first slide be for the letter A. I would show both the uppercase (A) and lowercase (a) along with a picture of an apple and an apron.

At http://www.algebra.com/, students can recieve help with their algebra homework, as well as view lessons on specific topics. While this website is helpful to students, it could be more effective. The headings and captions on the page are confusing- they are nearly the same size as the rest of the text and are also the same font and color. There are virtually no graphics, only words and numbers, so the page looks overwhelming at first. Also, the justifications of the text (both at the top and the left of the page) are confusing. While the page is limited in type styles and colors, it is very boring by not varying type or color at all. This page has very few superfluous items. I also feel that the titles of the sections are not targeted at students struggling in Algebra, they should be more descriptive.

As a teacher, I would make sure to include outside sources in my class to show validity as well as varying opinions and ways of teaching. While using other resources is a good thing, teachers must make sure not to violate copyright or fair use guidelines. All of my teachers thus far seem to have used outside sources in a fair and legitimate way and have educated students on avoiding plagerism. I feel that educating students on how to use other sources fairly is very important as most schools have a zero tolerance policy on plagerism.