Blog Journal #8

Diigo has been a really useful tool and I am glad I have learned how to use it because it is going to be very helpful in my own classroom someday. Diigo is a useful tool because it allows teachers to share webpages with one another and point out the useful information on the page either by highlighting it or making a note. This is like a PLN because the teachers can connect with one another and share helpful information. Diigo is also useful for students and teachers to work together because teachers can share webpages and articles and different sources with the students to see and the teacher can highlight certain points and students can also make notes on the page and share with their peers what they found on the site. It is also useful for personal use because I can save webpages that I will need later on, and I can make notes on which information is most important and which sources will be most helpful.

            Using PowerPoint can support student learning at every level of Bloom's Taxonomy. It can be useful for the first level of CREATE especially because students can create their own PowerPoint to share with the class and that is a newly produced original piece of work that requires design and formulate and many other skills. A PowerPoint can also be useful to EVALUATE because students can evaluate different PowerPoints and even give their opinions and judge them. A PowerPoint can also be made is a response to something that can Evaluate their value, it could even be evaluating their skills of knowing how to use PowerPoint. It can also be used for ANALYZE by including ways for students to draw connections among ideas from class lectures into the PowerPoint. There could be discussion questions or even quiz questions including on the slides. Students can APPLY their own knowledge and include them on their own PowerPoint slides. The students can take what they have learned and apply the information onto slides that they can share with other students. For UNDERSTAND the PowerPoints can include discussion points so that students can discuss and explain the point that they were taught to see if it was understood. The students can use PowerPoints to help them remember information by creating their own because with the creation and time to create the students will better remember the information they learned.

tech trends

This website can be useful to stay informed on technology trends and how to keep up with them. It also helps professionals understand how technology trends impact them and how to incorporate them into their careers. As a professional, it is important to stay informed and up to date with the technology trends so that you can share with others and others can share with you. 

ILP #2: PLN

my voice thread

My PLN voice thread project was on Pinterest because I like to use Pinterest a lot and have found a lot of teachers do as well. There are a lot of different boards with teacher resources and all the teachers can connect with one another and share their materials. It is also fun because you can be creative and make cute boards for other teachers to see, share, and use. If you do not already have Pinterest I definitely recommend it and go ahead and follow some boards you are interested in and see all the cool resources that the other teachers have shared to their boards and join some communities.

Blog Journal 7

• So far using twitter has been fun and informative. I like that there is so much information on twitter and it is all so easily shared with so many different people. I have learned a lot about education with technology because teachers share on twitter about their tools in their classroom. There are so many benefits to using twitter because there are so many people with valuable information on twitter then you can easily get in contact with and share information and resources with. I have not experienced any issues but one thing that could be better is knowing which people to connect with and which resources are most helpful and reliable because there is so much information and people on twitter.

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• I like the web design project because we got to be creative while also learning about a helpful tool that we can and will have to use for our own class someday. I learned how to create a webpage for a class and add all kinds of things to it like images, calendars, links, and much more. I did not like the one we used to require you to pay to have more options. I would have also liked to have more options for formatting because the formatting was somewhat limited. Next time in my career, I can improve my webpage by including more categories and designs in it to make it more accessible, informative, and creative.

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• I do not know of anyone using assistive and adaptive technology, but I know it is very helpful for students in a classroom setting. These technologies help students stay on track with the other students and hopefully do just as well despite any difficulties they may have. These technologies in the classroom maybe challenging for other students to understand and not be distracted by or be able to connect with those students. Also, as the teacher, I will have to understand how to help that student with each type of assistive technology they may have. It will take more planning and ability to adapt but it is amazing that these technologies are available to the disabled students to help them be just as successful as everyone else and be able to function in a classroom just like every other student without disabilities does.