I think the ITSE standard I am most equipped to start off with is "Make strategic use of digital media (e.g., textual, graphical, audio, visual, and interactive elements) in presentations to enhance understanding of findings, reasoning, and evidence and to add interest".  Throughout my years of school, I've gone through a lot of different technologies and feel pretty well equipped to diversify even further.  I'm pretty comfortable with incorporating new things into my techniques and methods as long as someone shows me how to do it.  Also, students get bored pretty quickly if you constantly show them the same content over and over in the same formats.

The standard I'm least equipped for is "Use technology, including the Internet, to produce, publish, and update individual or shared writing products in response to ongoing feedback, including new arguments or information."  This blog is my first venture into online writing, and it's not collaborative.  I can't even imagine the issues that would come from any kind of group collaborative writing project done by students.  It's bad enough separating them into groups for normal assignments.  You run into the exclusionary practices of kids toward each other, fighting amongst each other.  I would love to see someone show me how this process works in a normal (non-AP type) class because I simply don't see it as being helpful at all.

CPALMS is one of the best educator resources available online.  It has thousands of standards, lesson plans, teacher and student resources, tutorials and more for any grade level and field.  In my case, since I would like to teach high school level history, I would personally use resource ID# 169158, which is a video discussion titled "Slavery and the Missouri Compromise".  This is a Kahn Academy video, and it does an excellent job of outlining the issues of slavery and the compromises that delayed the split of the U.S. as long as it did.  I enjoy how it's done as a question/answer format.  I know many students don't want to ask questions in class, so having someone else ask the questions that they may have in mind but don't want to ask could help a good bit.

I actually enjoyed the newsletter assignment.  I can't say I learned too much from it, aside from some formatting things, such as the fact that adding a clickable link to a footer is impossible, and that deleting a page from an established template is a royal pain in the rear.  It was fun trying to consider just what might be going on in my imaginary classroom and what the class would have studied at this point, what we might be doing, and making up names for all my great students who have done well.