Post #4

Chapter seven covers skills that are very useful in many ares of study, but English would be the more prominant subject to use these skills in because of the use of outlines and idea maps and story lines especially. Outlines are necessary in education because that is what notes are based off of. In every class I have ever taken, outlines are an essential to learning different tasks and skills and to test prep. Outlines are also used in education to map out how you will prepare your students for different tasks and assignments. For these tasks the technologies I would use would have to be MS Word. The word 07 has an easy way to make outlines quickley and neatly with just the use of the enter key. To teach students about these skills I would use a projector to ultimately show the students how to achieve a perfect outline. It is nice to hear how to do something as well as see it visually because I personally am a visual learner and to see how something is done just engraves the skills into me even better so I may duplicate the task at a later time.

I would definatley encourage my students to use outlines and such to accomplish readings and essays and such. To tackle a 20 page chapter, it would not be efficient to just jot down random notes and ideas. It would be better to write down paragraph main ideas and a few notes about that paragraph and why it is important. It would be just as difficult to reread the chapter or to read the bulk of random notes you took as well. With storyboard skills, it helps to have them written down and to have the bigger idea out there and it is easy to add in details to where they would fit more naturally into the story line than to have a bunch of random facts in a big mixed up mess. It helps to keep you more organized and to make the story flow in a more organized and readable manner.

I think a skill i encountered last week that i will use in the future is the inspiration because I never knew that t could be that easy to make a simple flow chart and it be readable and neat on a page. I think it will be nice because many people learn by charts or outlines so if half of my students learn well with a web chart then many of my students will be able to advance and learn in their own unique way.