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.
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