Hello!! Final blog alert. I am so happy that we are done with the semester, but I am so sad that summer is coming to an end. With that being said, I hope everyone had a great summer.
In the future, I would like to focus on learning how to make websites through other domains than the ones we learned in class. This is exciting for me because I am taking an intro to web development class in the fall where I'm sure I'll get more extensive information on how to go through all of the odds and ends of website creation. I also would like to learn more because my boyfriend is a freelance website developer for companies and it would be cool to seek his advice and connect with him on that topic. I am interested in the content creation and images!
Good luck this fall!
xoxo
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https://lexiijones.blogspot.com/2019/07/as-future-educator-im-trying-to-gain-as.html?showComment=1564349957102#c3467969524660938276
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Sunday, July 28, 2019
Sunday, July 21, 2019
Blog #10
Hey everybody! I hope everyone enjoyed their weekend, it is hard to believe we are wrapping up week 10!
To dive right in, as a teacher, my plan on professional development is more digital. I do enjoy the idea of conferences and classes when large groups of educators can meet, but I am more of a "as-needed-learner", where I can benefit from digital professional development. Online, I can participate and follow blogs from other educators so I can learn more about lesson and classroom management ideas, and follow the other lives of teachers to relate my life to theirs. I also like the idea of webinars, because they are extremely informative and available to viewers frequently. Lastly, I think I will use Twitter as a professional development tool to follow other educators and news sources. This is an easy way to connect with a large audience and enables me to ask and answer questions to and from other teachers.
Lastly, I enjoyed the last two PowerPoint Assignments. I liked the Milk Maid and Her Pail skill check. In Module 9, I composed a Test Review Trivia to test my knowledge on sound, animations, transitions, and slide effects. For the one before that, I made a little "guide to nutrition", where I reviewed everything we should be eating in a day, and voiced myself over adding details to the content. I also was able to utilize transitions and notes per slide. Next time I think I can improve by just knowing that the voice over will cut off when I switch between slides, so mine is a little choppy.
My Comments: https://baileysblogeme2040.blogspot.com/2019/07/blog-9.html?showComment=1563767516674#c1092725558437153543
https://court03334.blogspot.com/2019/07/blog-post-9.html?showComment=1563767729962#c7756829280575427456
To dive right in, as a teacher, my plan on professional development is more digital. I do enjoy the idea of conferences and classes when large groups of educators can meet, but I am more of a "as-needed-learner", where I can benefit from digital professional development. Online, I can participate and follow blogs from other educators so I can learn more about lesson and classroom management ideas, and follow the other lives of teachers to relate my life to theirs. I also like the idea of webinars, because they are extremely informative and available to viewers frequently. Lastly, I think I will use Twitter as a professional development tool to follow other educators and news sources. This is an easy way to connect with a large audience and enables me to ask and answer questions to and from other teachers.
My Comments: https://baileysblogeme2040.blogspot.com/2019/07/blog-9.html?showComment=1563767516674#c1092725558437153543
https://court03334.blogspot.com/2019/07/blog-post-9.html?showComment=1563767729962#c7756829280575427456
Monday, July 15, 2019
Blog #9
The Flipped Classroom is a common approach to education that I experience in college more than ever. Students are now required to look at the information in the textbook or online before coming to class for the lecture. This helps students learn more and come in with questions prepared for clarification. I think this is a good way to use a multiple exposure strategy to teaching.
The digital divide is something I don't feel was too big of a gap growing up. However, now that I am in college and there are all types of students at FSU, I understand that there is a greater gap in those who have access to technology and internet. I think money comes into play a large amount when examining the digital divide because it costs a lot to use technology and the internet. Not only do you have to buy the technology, often times you also have to purchase the Wifi to surf the web, and other applications like Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Excel, which are necessary skills for students to learn in present day. As a teacher, I feel as if you should send a survey home the first week of school for students' parents to answer that asks about their level of internet and technological access, this way teachers know whether or not to make the class more internet and computer based, or more paper and pen based. I do think it is extremely important to implement usage of the schools electronics in the classroom too, this way those who do not have access at home can still learn the required skills students need to know for their futures.
I enjoyed learning more about PowerPoint. I've always enjoyed making slide shows. This weeks PowerPoint was a lot more difficult to make than last weeks and it wasn't necessarily about the skills, it was more about the workload, because a 17+ page PowerPoint with so many requirements is actually really time consuming to do. Next time I can improve my PowerPoints for school using action buttons!
Comments:
https://pedagogicalperegrinate.blogspot.com/2019/07/assistive-and-adaptive-technologies.html?showComment=1563223822981#c394079227109327796
https://gabswithgabi.blogspot.com/2019/07/blog-post-8-week-8.html?showComment=1563223946328#c5591991907355214394
The digital divide is something I don't feel was too big of a gap growing up. However, now that I am in college and there are all types of students at FSU, I understand that there is a greater gap in those who have access to technology and internet. I think money comes into play a large amount when examining the digital divide because it costs a lot to use technology and the internet. Not only do you have to buy the technology, often times you also have to purchase the Wifi to surf the web, and other applications like Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Excel, which are necessary skills for students to learn in present day. As a teacher, I feel as if you should send a survey home the first week of school for students' parents to answer that asks about their level of internet and technological access, this way teachers know whether or not to make the class more internet and computer based, or more paper and pen based. I do think it is extremely important to implement usage of the schools electronics in the classroom too, this way those who do not have access at home can still learn the required skills students need to know for their futures.
I enjoyed learning more about PowerPoint. I've always enjoyed making slide shows. This weeks PowerPoint was a lot more difficult to make than last weeks and it wasn't necessarily about the skills, it was more about the workload, because a 17+ page PowerPoint with so many requirements is actually really time consuming to do. Next time I can improve my PowerPoints for school using action buttons!
Comments:
https://pedagogicalperegrinate.blogspot.com/2019/07/assistive-and-adaptive-technologies.html?showComment=1563223822981#c394079227109327796
https://gabswithgabi.blogspot.com/2019/07/blog-post-8-week-8.html?showComment=1563223946328#c5591991907355214394
Sunday, July 7, 2019
Blog #8
Assistive and adaptive technologies are important because not only are they the law, but they help make the classroom a more open environment and avoids alienation! My friend is a deaf educator in Hillsborough County, FL. and uses technology with no sound and just words, or sounds with subtitles. Every one in the classroom uses sign language even if some of the kids have cochlear implants and can hear, to make sure no one feels left out or lesser then. If children want to learn speaking better and have the cochlear implants, they can talk to my friend outside of class time and away from other kids who are completely deaf. It would be difficult, however, to make sure you are completely equipped in the classroom before the activity. You would need to make sure you have the parts added into the software of the computer for a disabled kid. Or you would need to make sure that a trackball or joystick is nearby instead of a mouse. This isn't a big deal, but I could see people running into problems of being prepared.
I think the technology that is used the most, and that I would probably implement the most is spell-check for kids with dyslexia, or the text-to-speech software for kids who have a physical disability and cannot use the keyboard. I also think it is easy to enlarge a font to help a seeing-impaired student read the screen better, or provide a smaller screen for them to read on. Technology has truly changed the way kids with disabilities can learn, and even makes the classroom a more inclusive haven. :)
The WebQuest assignment from last week actually had me stressed for a little! I used Wix and it was a little hard to use at first, I definitely had to get used to how to efficiently make the tabs I needed. I do like the layout of mine and the simple look of it, and how I was able to be creative during the process. This is going to help me create a classroom website, and assignment sites for submission in the future! Also I am taking a Web Design class in the fall semester so it is a good jump start into that.
https://madisonrattner.wixsite.com/2040
Comments: https://ktschiller.blogspot.com/2019/07/blog-7.html?showComment=1562549217899#c1243052262167783952
https://minnieseducationblog.blogspot.com/2019/06/post-7.html?showComment=1562549363630#c1042506929012365448
I think the technology that is used the most, and that I would probably implement the most is spell-check for kids with dyslexia, or the text-to-speech software for kids who have a physical disability and cannot use the keyboard. I also think it is easy to enlarge a font to help a seeing-impaired student read the screen better, or provide a smaller screen for them to read on. Technology has truly changed the way kids with disabilities can learn, and even makes the classroom a more inclusive haven. :)
The WebQuest assignment from last week actually had me stressed for a little! I used Wix and it was a little hard to use at first, I definitely had to get used to how to efficiently make the tabs I needed. I do like the layout of mine and the simple look of it, and how I was able to be creative during the process. This is going to help me create a classroom website, and assignment sites for submission in the future! Also I am taking a Web Design class in the fall semester so it is a good jump start into that.
https://madisonrattner.wixsite.com/2040
Comments: https://ktschiller.blogspot.com/2019/07/blog-7.html?showComment=1562549217899#c1243052262167783952
https://minnieseducationblog.blogspot.com/2019/06/post-7.html?showComment=1562549363630#c1042506929012365448
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