In My Room...
I have always, and hopefully will always loved The Beach Boys. I love the song "In My Room," with all its teen angst and desire for autonomy. Ah... the desire for autonomy... Don't we teachers suffer from that, too? I had a friend leave her school this year and request a transfer because her new principal was too involved in her classroom. We want to do it our way.
I use Microsoft Word extensively in my room. Of course I do. I'm an English teacher. I generally don't like the tests given me by the textbook, because I don't necessarily cover things in the same order as they do. And I certainly don't teach from the same COS as the book presumes! So, in my room I make my own tests...and project handouts...and syllabi....and schedules...and study guides.... To my credit, I do format all of these things and also have them available on my class website. Parents love that. To my discredit, until this class, I have never once included any sort of graphic on a single page I've created.
I personally am very much a word person. I'm an English teacher. We do words. But I have to realize that a page of words can be daunting to some of my students. Maybe a few graphics would make things friendlier -- more accessible. I can do that. Google has made it easy!
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