If I were to teach a lesson using technology, I would use Inspiration to help my third graders outline an English paper before they wrote it. Inspiration would be used to help them organize ideas before writing their paper based on a topic of their choice. The program would not only encourage children to organize their ideas, but it will provide a fun, creative outlet to do so.

I've decided to critique blackboard (www.campus.fsu.edu). Nothing flashes and there is no stacked text, so it's easier to read. Also there's a nice mix of uppercase and lowercase letters so it's not confusing or hard to read. The navigation buttons are easy to locate, and aren't placed in many places. There is many colors on the page, but they all compliment each other so it's nice to look at and doesn't hurt your eyes. I think it's a pretty well organized site to look at visually.

Copyright has always been a difficult concept for me to understand, even to this day. Clearly, copying a large portion of some body's work is illegal, but if you cite it is it legal? And if you just read something, and like a concept, is that illegal if you don't cite it? When writing papers for my AP English class, I just cited everything and hoped for the best. If I were to become a teacher, I would definitely learn and understand every rule of copy writing and then make a handout using Word so my students can easily understand what's legal and what isn't. Because I want to teach elementary school, I will make sure my lesson on copy writing is easily understood and not too detailed as to confuse them.