Spreadsheets

I will not be using spread sheets with my students, because they will be in the younger grades. I will however be using it for my grade book and for my personal class library inventory. I love spreadsheets for my personal use, I use them all the time. I think that it would be fun though, when they are learning about collecting data to have them conduct surveys and give me the results. I would then make the spread sheet for them and then show them the pie charts and explain the information to them.

Survey

Word Processing

I would like to use Google Docs in my classroom. Instead of buying a jump drive for all of my students, or having students keeping their assignments saved on one computer, I can have the students save all of their computer documents on the internet. With their documents being saved on line they can access them on home or anywhere they have internet access. I think that it also saves paper, which is also an added bonus.

I would prefer that my students do most of their brainstorming on paper though, because I don't want to lose the handwriting aspect of it and I can see how they got to where their paper is going.

Of course my students will be using computer programs for some of their paper, schools have been doing that since I was in first grade.

Copyright...DunDunDun

As a first grade teacher my students will be mostly doing reading, therefore they will be going through many books. Under the law of copyright I cannot go online and print multiple copies of a story that I find on line and keep them throughout the years. Also, if another teacher in the school has a book that I want for my classroom, I cannot just copy it and use it in my classroom. However, I can copy pages from my reading basil and the books in it to hand out to my students to read as long as it doesn't end up as a whole book that I am sending home with them.

As a teacher I also need to be teaching and modeling good copyright use and I need to abide by the laws. It would be out of line for me to burn a mix copy for every student of music we listened to throughout the year as a end of year gift.

YETC!!!

Wow we learned a lot today about what is available for teachers online! I would use a lot of the websites we visited to create or print worksheets for my classroom. Since I hope to be in the first grade classroom I don't think that my students will have as much time to spend on science since they need so much instruction in literacy. The science websites I would use during free-time or if they had indoor recess. I would have all the sites already pulled up and ready to use for the students. The reading, writing, spelling, etc. websites I would use during literacy centers and if I found math websites I would use them during centers as well.