1. What did you learn today through your individual efforts?
- I learned about the extent to which Diigo can be used for professional development. It really is a great resource, I think all teachers should even be required to set up an account and join their schools group. It really helps teachers communicate with each other and share anything they want!
2. What did you learn today viewing the bookmarks and annotations of others?
-Through someone's post they shared on Diigo, again Diigo is awesome, I learned about an educational forum. Here, teachers can post to each other in general, and the forum even gets broken down into subject, so you could use whichever subject you need!
Tuesday, October 31, 2017
Monday, October 30, 2017
Blog Journal 8
1. Adaptive technologies are a great tool to use in the classroom. They can range from very technologically advanced things, such as a language translator. Or it can be something very simple, such as a screen reader. Both of these technologies help benefit students in the classroom. They help it so every child has an equal opportunity to learn, as well as enabling every child to be challenged in the classroom and help them get a better education. These technologies can help a regular student, a special needs student, and even gifted students!
2. Bloom's Taxonomy is categorizing the different levels of learning and understanding of a given subject. It is something that is very important for teachers to be aware of and use to help their students learn to the best of their ability. One way to teach using Bloom's Taxonomy is through Powerpoint. For example, in a class of around 20 students, there is going to be some variety of which level of Bloom's Taxonomy each student is at. To utilize Powerpoint, I would include a variety of questions on each slide ranging from easy-hard. For students who already understand the hard questions, I could maybe have them explain how they got their answer, therefor helping to explain to other students as well as further understanding the subject themselves.
3. http://www.edtechroundup.org/
This website is a great place for teachers to stay up to date with the latest technology trends. In facts, this is exactly what this website was made for! It has tons of links to educational technology and the home page features what is new in the world of educational technology today.
2. Bloom's Taxonomy is categorizing the different levels of learning and understanding of a given subject. It is something that is very important for teachers to be aware of and use to help their students learn to the best of their ability. One way to teach using Bloom's Taxonomy is through Powerpoint. For example, in a class of around 20 students, there is going to be some variety of which level of Bloom's Taxonomy each student is at. To utilize Powerpoint, I would include a variety of questions on each slide ranging from easy-hard. For students who already understand the hard questions, I could maybe have them explain how they got their answer, therefor helping to explain to other students as well as further understanding the subject themselves.
3. http://www.edtechroundup.org/
Monday, October 23, 2017
Journal 7
1. So far, twitter has shown me that there is a whole different side to twitter that I did not even know existed. I follow a lot of educational accounts and pages like NASA, that post interesting facts and new scientific information. From these, I have seen posts from teachers about interesting things that they are doing in their classroom as well as some of their student's work. From just the general education pages, I see posts about interesting tools teacher's can use in their classroom. This includes programs like Edmodo and Kahoot as well as updates to these applications and ways to maximize the usage of these programs. The benefit of using Twitter is that it is so up to date on everything. Nowadays, pretty much every company has a twitter account that posts about their product. In addition to this, teachers post and share with each other their experiences and things they are doing in their classroom; from these they are able to interact with each other.
2. I do not have much yet to my webpage, however, I am happy with what I have at the moment. I made sure everything that I put into my webpage is going to be useful for students and their parents. Another important element of my webpage is the design and layout of everything. I wanted to make it super user-friendly so everything could easily be found.
www.lindseycallahanEME.weebly.com
3. From working on Diigo in class I have actually downloaded it for my own personal use. It is such a useful tool and I use it to bookmark things for some of my classes and it has really helped me to stay on top of my work. I know when I start teaching it is something that can be super useful for me. I think it would be even more beneficial in the future because I can organize all of my lesson plans and pages that I found useful, as well as seeing other teacher's saved pages.
2. I do not have much yet to my webpage, however, I am happy with what I have at the moment. I made sure everything that I put into my webpage is going to be useful for students and their parents. Another important element of my webpage is the design and layout of everything. I wanted to make it super user-friendly so everything could easily be found.
www.lindseycallahanEME.weebly.com
3. From working on Diigo in class I have actually downloaded it for my own personal use. It is such a useful tool and I use it to bookmark things for some of my classes and it has really helped me to stay on top of my work. I know when I start teaching it is something that can be super useful for me. I think it would be even more beneficial in the future because I can organize all of my lesson plans and pages that I found useful, as well as seeing other teacher's saved pages.
Friday, October 20, 2017
Tuesday, October 17, 2017
Teacher Productivity Tools
1. What did you learn through your individual efforts?
- Through my individual efforts, I learned about how great of a tool Excel is. It can be used for classroom budgeting, your own personal attendance records, and grading. Especially for grading and budgeting, Excel is an application that is made to do the math for you. It is definitely something that I am going to be taking full advantage of in the future to help assist me in my teaching. In addition to Excel, I learned about an app called Wunderlist. It is an online to-do list that you can share to others. In addition to this, you can attach documents, and other information that can be shared to anyone you want. This would be a great tool for teachers to use to further connect with parents as well as keeping students on track with their work.
2. What did you learn from others?
- From others, I learned about how great of a tool Google Docs is. Google Docs again is a great app that can be used for sharing documents to the parents and students in your class. You could also share your documents to other teachers. Google Docs is a great tool because it is safer than just saving things on your desktop. Computers are unpredictable because they can break or sometimes completely wipe their memory. Google Docs, however, is through your own personal account so all of your information is highly unlikely to somehow be erased. It is definitely a very secure and useful app that would be really great for a teacher.
- Through my individual efforts, I learned about how great of a tool Excel is. It can be used for classroom budgeting, your own personal attendance records, and grading. Especially for grading and budgeting, Excel is an application that is made to do the math for you. It is definitely something that I am going to be taking full advantage of in the future to help assist me in my teaching. In addition to Excel, I learned about an app called Wunderlist. It is an online to-do list that you can share to others. In addition to this, you can attach documents, and other information that can be shared to anyone you want. This would be a great tool for teachers to use to further connect with parents as well as keeping students on track with their work.
2. What did you learn from others?
- From others, I learned about how great of a tool Google Docs is. Google Docs again is a great app that can be used for sharing documents to the parents and students in your class. You could also share your documents to other teachers. Google Docs is a great tool because it is safer than just saving things on your desktop. Computers are unpredictable because they can break or sometimes completely wipe their memory. Google Docs, however, is through your own personal account so all of your information is highly unlikely to somehow be erased. It is definitely a very secure and useful app that would be really great for a teacher.
Group Activity C.R.A.P.
Katie Hulbert
Contrast:
- The contrast on this webpage is good. The background is a green color while all the text is on a white background. If this were to be printed in black and white, it could still easily be read.
Repetition:
-Similar visual effects are repeated throughout this webpage. Titles are in blue, below the text is in purple. Everything is organized so that it is very easy to read and navigate.
Alignment:
- Everything is aligned, the main title and links are all centered. While the rest of the page is broken into 2 columns which from their have aligned titles and text. In addition to this, all of the pictures are aligned as well.
Proximity:
- Similar visual elements are grouped together, she has links to different things in her webpage, like her about me page, that have its own visual element that is different from the home page. From these links, things within these tabs are all group together in a very organized way so things are easy to find.
http://garrityd.wixsite.com/garrityclass
Contrast:
- The contrast on this webpage is good. The background is a green color while all the text is on a white background. If this were to be printed in black and white, it could still easily be read.
Repetition:
-Similar visual effects are repeated throughout this webpage. Titles are in blue, below the text is in purple. Everything is organized so that it is very easy to read and navigate.
Alignment:
- Everything is aligned, the main title and links are all centered. While the rest of the page is broken into 2 columns which from their have aligned titles and text. In addition to this, all of the pictures are aligned as well.
Proximity:
- Similar visual elements are grouped together, she has links to different things in her webpage, like her about me page, that have its own visual element that is different from the home page. From these links, things within these tabs are all group together in a very organized way so things are easy to find.
http://garrityd.wixsite.com/garrityclass
Monday, October 16, 2017
Education and Web 2.0
What did you learn about this weeks topic through the Diigo activity?
Diigo is a tool that enables students, teachers, and people to do what is called social annotating. What this website is, is a online bookmarking tool that can be easily installed to your browser. Once installed, you can bookmark, annotate, and share pages you have found on the internet. This is an awesome tool for teachers and students to use. For example, in class we found educational websites, bookmarked and shared them to our classmates. In addition to this, we read educational articles and left annotations and highlights throughout this. Not only is this great for your own personal use, but your group members can also see your highlights and comments if you want them to! From here, they can leave additional comments and highlights. What is so great about all of this is that people are learning through the use of technology and interacting with other teachers, students, and peers in their class. Diigo is such a great tool that I think all teachers can benefit from, it is definitely something I can see myself using in the future.
Diigo is a tool that enables students, teachers, and people to do what is called social annotating. What this website is, is a online bookmarking tool that can be easily installed to your browser. Once installed, you can bookmark, annotate, and share pages you have found on the internet. This is an awesome tool for teachers and students to use. For example, in class we found educational websites, bookmarked and shared them to our classmates. In addition to this, we read educational articles and left annotations and highlights throughout this. Not only is this great for your own personal use, but your group members can also see your highlights and comments if you want them to! From here, they can leave additional comments and highlights. What is so great about all of this is that people are learning through the use of technology and interacting with other teachers, students, and peers in their class. Diigo is such a great tool that I think all teachers can benefit from, it is definitely something I can see myself using in the future.
Blog Journal 6
1. I went on an elementary school website. From there I went to a page for a fifth grade class. On this page, the teacher had links to all her weekly newsletters, links and documents, a "what's on your mind tab", links, and an about me page. The weekly newsletters are hyper-linked and organized so parents and students can easily find and access them. The "what's on your mind" tab is a discussion group type thing where students can post things and interact with one another. The links tab has a bunch of useful information that students can use to help them with their lessons and learning.
http://mrsnickersonislwr.weebly.com/
2. I really like the way this teachers page is set up. It seems useful and would benefit like it says, students who don't remember what they need to be doing or forgot their agenda. It also helps parents stay connected with the about me page and the weekly news. I envision myself having something very similar to this page. My favorite thing from it is the weekly news, this really helps kids stay on top of their work. In addition to that, if a student doesn't under stand their work, the links are a really helpful resource they can take advantage of to help them understand the lesson. A teacher page like this one definitely help the classroom function more effectively and efficiently.
3. One thing from the technology sandbox that really stood out to me where the smart boards. I think these could be extremely useful in the classroom. It was not only like a regular white board with a projector, but it was interactive. Students are able to engage in games, immediate feedback, and even cooler things like 3D models that can be used throughout your lesson. I can really envision myself using something like a smart board in the future to help with my teacher. I think it is really interactive and hands on and can only benefit students learning. In addition to this, it is definitely something fun that the students will be excited to use and participate in.
http://mrsnickersonislwr.weebly.com/
2. I really like the way this teachers page is set up. It seems useful and would benefit like it says, students who don't remember what they need to be doing or forgot their agenda. It also helps parents stay connected with the about me page and the weekly news. I envision myself having something very similar to this page. My favorite thing from it is the weekly news, this really helps kids stay on top of their work. In addition to that, if a student doesn't under stand their work, the links are a really helpful resource they can take advantage of to help them understand the lesson. A teacher page like this one definitely help the classroom function more effectively and efficiently.
3. One thing from the technology sandbox that really stood out to me where the smart boards. I think these could be extremely useful in the classroom. It was not only like a regular white board with a projector, but it was interactive. Students are able to engage in games, immediate feedback, and even cooler things like 3D models that can be used throughout your lesson. I can really envision myself using something like a smart board in the future to help with my teacher. I think it is really interactive and hands on and can only benefit students learning. In addition to this, it is definitely something fun that the students will be excited to use and participate in.
Sunday, October 8, 2017
Blog Journal 5
1. Web 2.0 technologies can be an extremely useful thing to use in the classroom. It is definitely a good thing that they are no longer optional. However, I think some of them are more useful than others. Some of the more useful ones are things like podcasts (what I listened to to get this information), blogging (what I am using to make this post), as well as something like Napster, which allows for peer to peer sharing. These things can definitely help in the classroom for students and teachers. It helps enable us to share information to people where before wouldn't have been possible without Web 2.0 technologies. Some of them can be a little bit risky too. Things like Wikipedia, and Wiki where anyone can put in information can lead to a lot of inaccuracy. It is important that we teach students, and teachers to know how to use Web 2.0 to their advantage.
2. I think the tool Library Thing is an awesome thing that teachers can use in the classroom. For example, for a lesson if students were assigned to read The Great Gatsby you could then have them go on to Library Thing and connect with others who have also read it. Here they could obviously ask questions and get into discussions about the book. It is like an online book club. I think doing this would also encourage students to use Library Thing for their personal books and would then encourage reading and discussions of their readings.
https://www.librarything.com/
3. I think Gamification is a technological advancement that holds a big promise for education. Turning learning in to fun games definitely increases motivation and the understanding of the content. Not only do I think it would work for younger students especially but even high school students benefit from it. Whenever I have been able to use games to learn, it has made me so much more engaged and interested in the lesson being taught. I also think this is awesome for students who are unmotivated, I think it would help their motivation if what they were learning was taught to them in a fun way.
2. I think the tool Library Thing is an awesome thing that teachers can use in the classroom. For example, for a lesson if students were assigned to read The Great Gatsby you could then have them go on to Library Thing and connect with others who have also read it. Here they could obviously ask questions and get into discussions about the book. It is like an online book club. I think doing this would also encourage students to use Library Thing for their personal books and would then encourage reading and discussions of their readings.
https://www.librarything.com/
3. I think Gamification is a technological advancement that holds a big promise for education. Turning learning in to fun games definitely increases motivation and the understanding of the content. Not only do I think it would work for younger students especially but even high school students benefit from it. Whenever I have been able to use games to learn, it has made me so much more engaged and interested in the lesson being taught. I also think this is awesome for students who are unmotivated, I think it would help their motivation if what they were learning was taught to them in a fun way.
Wednesday, October 4, 2017
Embedded Tweet
I read a post from @brennacarrigan1 about a "Butterfly Life Cycle" lesson plan that she could use for second grade science! #FSUedtech— Lindsey Callahan (@lindseyeme2040) October 5, 2017
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