Tuesday, March 26, 2019

Blog Journal #8

I've learned a lot using Diigo this semester. I went from having never heard of it, to using it with some ease. I've learned about what social bookmarking is, how to keep different bookmarks together by type/ subject, and a way to remind myself why exactly I bookmarked a page. Diigo could be useful in the future in my classroom, especially as a way to keep me organized. I think Diigo would also be helpful in meetings, because it's like an online note reminder.
You could use powerpoint to support student learning in each level of Bloom's Taxonomy pretty easily.I don't quite understand this question, but I'll try my best to answer. For remember, you set up a list of vocabulary words on the first page, then sprinkle them in through out the lesson. For understand, you could have the definitions to the vocab words appear after they click on a certain thing, to see if they were right. For apply, a matching game could be set up, similar to the choose your own adventure game from class this morning. For analyze, a compare and contrast venn diagram could be set. I'm actually not sure how you could for evaluate, but for create you could assign the student to create their lesson powerpoint for the subject. 
A lot of teacher professional development is done using technology, especially in urban areas with a lot of wealthy families. EdTech is a magazine / website that focuses on technology and problems surrounding it and how it affects teachers and the education system. It's updated frequently, and is a trust worthy source of information for educators. 






Thursday, March 7, 2019

Blog Journal #7


My experience with Twitter so far has been very banal. I see the appeal for some teachers, especially for those that want to have a more online presence within their classrooms but for myself personally I do not see myself using it professionally. I can never quite figure out what tone is appropriate, or if what I'm tweeting is even worth tweeting. Overall the social media website just gives me feelings of dread and anxiety. 

Working on the Web Design assignment was super fun! I never realized it was so easy to create a website, I can definitely see myself using Weebly in the future. There honestly wasn't much I disliked about the process, it felt really clear and direct with me. I'm afraid my website personally is a bit bland in terms of designs, but I hope to use the revision token to spice it up, this time around I had some personal issues that kept me from truly utilizing the resource. Link to my website here

Assistive and adaptive technologies are some of the best technological advances we've had. It's really cool that we have so many ways to be inclusive in our modern classrooms, I just wish that they were more cost-friendly. A lot of the newer, and nicer, examples we have are out of budget for the average school. An example of an assistive technology I've gotten to use is a VRS (video relay service) that I learned how to use in my high school ASL class.