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I feel most confident with all of the multimedia standards. Since I have personally been through all of the standards during my time in grade school, I feel confident in my ability to integrate many various forms of the same content in my lessons and also assign projects to my students that I know will allow them to gain knowledge for themselves of incorporating various forms of media in their own work. I have been familiarized with incorporating articles, videos, charts and also being able to analyze and compare the different medias. I feel very confident in my ability to pass this knowledge on to my students.

The book gave a few options for search engines to use in the classroom, however, I believe that using google may end up being simpler to implement in the classroom. Most students and I are already very familiar with google so I would not have to take the time to teach myself or my students the process of an unfamiliar search engine. I would implement technologies for collaboration and make requirements to include various resources that include different media types. Ideally, I will be teaching middle school or high school so positive digital citizenship should already be introduced. However, many students at this age may feel above the rules or may be more inclined to disobey set expectations. In this case I will be sure to stay consistent with instructions, punishments, and being sure to lead by positive example.

The newsletter assignment, to be honest, gave me a bit of frustration. Word can be temperamental and uncooperative. This being said, I did learn to incorporate decorative details such as borders and shading of certain paragraphs. This will highly improve the look of many of my future projects and assignments. I also learned just how much word can work against you, this will be extremely helpful in future assignments so I can expect issues and allow extra time for completion.