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  • Essay / Reflecting on the Missouri Teacher Standards, Standard 5

    Educators must understand the single student and their behaviors, so that when they are paired for homework, a positive and active learning environment is created. In my Technology for Teachers course, we exposed ourselves to a few programs that could help teachers make a lesson more interesting. One of the programs we used was called Comic Life 2. This program helped children and teachers easily create stories and comics. Additionally, Comic Life 2 offers different designs, icons, and backgrounds to choose from. My teacher, Mrs. Seward, thought it would be a wonderful opportunity to use the program to create our own set of classroom rules. His instructions did not involve a set number of rules to be established. Additionally, we didn't have to create our comic book images; we were allowed to find photos on the internet that would be appropriate instead. For my comic, I decided to draw each image by hand and color them on my computer using a program called GIMP. The program allowed me to implement bright colors and clean lines to create vibrant colors....