Post #4

I would very much encourage my students to outline their thoughts. I think outlines are a great way of getting started on essays or projects or also just a way of combining your ideas and kind of appropriately placing them where they belong. I have always been a big fan of outlines.

I also would encourage my students to use a storyboard as well though. I am not as familiar with a storyboard and although I dont think it would personally work on me, I would encourage all of my students to try to make a storyboard to help with an essay as well. I think that encouraging students to utilize such skills will only help them later.

Students can also use an idea map to kind of put together their ideas and the things that they can use. It can help them to see what is relevant and what is not in writing their essay or perhaps in preparing a project.

To make any of the three things, students can use MS Word, Inspiration, and Powerpoint. I think that they are useful when students have time to do them. I think that they help with essays and projects but wouldnt necessarily help with mundane classroom activities or various other things that students arent allotted a lot of time to use.

I have acquired inspiration skills that I believe will be very useful to me and will help out very much in the long term so that I can teach them to my students.