Blog Post 2

I've used Microsoft Word as a student for as long as I can remember. I've used it since elementary school to type of assignments and essays. My teachers have used it for multiple purposes. The newsletter they sent out each week were created using Word, as were the assignment sheets they passed out. Many of my teachers used Word to type of grading rubrics that they gave to each student. I feel like my teachers used Word often, I just never realized that Word was the program they were using.

Chapter 9 has given me some new ideas to use Word in the classroom. I like the idea of using Word to create a newspaper. I think, if I teach a classroom full of older students, I can encourage them to create a newspaper for the entire school to tell other students about important events from the students' perspective. Creating and using tables can be used to organize data when my students do science experiments, or take surveys for math activities.

I've definitely acquired a lot of new skills in using Word. I used it just to primarily type essays, but now I know I can create a lot of really cool things with it. I've learned how to create page borders, new shapes besides rectangles, columns, and tables. I knew how to do most of it before, but now I feel confident that I can create whatever graphic I need. I think these skills will be useful because I can teach my students the skills I learned in order to help them complete any type of assignment.