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I've used MS Word since about my sophomore year of High School. I'm 24, so the computer craze had not made such a huge impact on me until it was necessary for school. To this day, Iprobably spend a good 75% of the time I spend on the computer using MS Word. I don;t really see too many teachers using it anymore. I see teachers using powerpoitn the most above all other tools. Now though, my younger siblings talk about the teachers using those Smart Boards, but I think I am a generation too late to have experienced them as a student.
I see myself using MS Word seldom as a teacher. I know that I still like to write my notes by hand and will not have many reasons to write a paper as a teacher. I had a teacher use MS Word to develop a class itinerary, which was helpful to some degree. I do not think I will be employing that too much in my classroom. I might develop some worksheets and the syllabus using it, but that is it.
Getting more familiar with powerpoint has been the highlight. I'm still not 100 percent on all the bells and whistles that comes with it, but I can develop a basic lesson using it. I also liked learning the Inspiration program which was a lot of fun to play around on. It was easy to use and downloading it on my computer for a trial run was very easy. It was a great way to construct flow charts which are very important in a World History class to map out a timeline of events.