Word Processing Reflection

Tech Skill: Word Processing

Word Processing is great in the sense that it reflects no particular instructional approach; therefore, all teachers can and should feel comfortable using it in the classroom. According to Roblyer, word processing is the tool used most by teachers and its advantages include:

1. saving time: teachers do not have to keep re-creating documents created and can make changes whenever
2. enhancing document appearance: teachers can make something they have created look professional
3. collaboration: teachers can easily share documents and materials from one another.
4. allows meaningful, hands-on practice in language use
5. errors are hi-lighted as they type and are displayed with mini-captions on what is wrong with the statement
6. encourages writing through any curriculum

Each one of these benefits I notice in my classroom. When I create documents, it is so easy to share with other teachers or e-mail materials to students when they are absent or missed part of a lesson for some reason. As a foreign language teacher, I get to teach students about language features on the computer. This is interesting because Word works in the same way when put into a different language; therefore, students can see misspellings and grammatical errors as they type. This helps them with their writing skills tremendously, because the majority of my students would rather type then write on any given day.

Word processing also saves me so much time in terms of wanting to display something quickly. For instance, I can just type up answers to the homework quickly before class starts and project the answers for all to see. There is so much more I have to learn about Word Processing. I am excited to learn more about it on Atomic Learning.