The first PLN Tool I found is called Powerful Learning Practice. This is a tool that teachers can use to better educate themselves in certain subjects, or subjects they're interested in learning. There are classes that are took to learn this material and it is all self-paced. This can be a valuable tool for teachers to brush up on a topic they haven't taught or even thought about in a while.
http://plpnetwork.com/
This second PLN Tool I found is called Classroom 2.0. This is a tool that is similar to Diigo. This tool allows for teachers to communicate with each other to find out about events coming up, webinars to attend, and discussing projects or how an activity worked/didn't work in their classroom. It is a great tool for teachers to stay connected with each other within the community!
http://www.classroom20.com/
Wednesday, March 21, 2018
Blog Post 8
Adaptive technologies are technologies that have changed or evolved so that it is beneficial to students with disabilities. These technologies are put in place so that all students, no matter the disability can have a fair chance of learning the same material as students who don't have disabilities. Personally, I do not know anyone who has used these technologies, but I know that there are many adaptive technologies out there that truly benefit others.
Some teachers or even students may face challenges within the classroom with adaptive technologies. To other students, these devices or technologies may be distracting within the classroom. Unrelated to adaptive technologies in the classroom, but an example is closed captions on TV shows or movies. I don't like watching movies with closed captions because I read the captions and don't pay attention to the actual movie, even though I can hear perfectly. Also, technology isn't perfect. Things break and the student nor the teacher might know how to fix it. If students rely on these devices too much, they might not remember how to function without them.
This article discusses about a few ways to stay on top of technology trends. It is important for teachers to know technology trends that their students are using so they can easily incorporate what the students use into lesson plans and so that they can make sure their students are being safe online. This article talks about eight ways for teachers to keep track of trends. These ways are:
1. Clipboard and Industry Events
2. Curated Information from Social Media
3. News Aggregation Sites
4. Smart Personalization Algorithms
5. Social Networks and News Feeds
6. Constantly Read Tech News and Embrace New Projects
7. Keeping Eyes and Ears Open
8. Watch the People Attempting to Set the Trends
https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbestechcouncil/2016/10/11/how-to-stay-on-top-of-the-latest-technology-trends/#52dccfda7ef8
Some teachers or even students may face challenges within the classroom with adaptive technologies. To other students, these devices or technologies may be distracting within the classroom. Unrelated to adaptive technologies in the classroom, but an example is closed captions on TV shows or movies. I don't like watching movies with closed captions because I read the captions and don't pay attention to the actual movie, even though I can hear perfectly. Also, technology isn't perfect. Things break and the student nor the teacher might know how to fix it. If students rely on these devices too much, they might not remember how to function without them.
This article discusses about a few ways to stay on top of technology trends. It is important for teachers to know technology trends that their students are using so they can easily incorporate what the students use into lesson plans and so that they can make sure their students are being safe online. This article talks about eight ways for teachers to keep track of trends. These ways are:
1. Clipboard and Industry Events
2. Curated Information from Social Media
3. News Aggregation Sites
4. Smart Personalization Algorithms
5. Social Networks and News Feeds
6. Constantly Read Tech News and Embrace New Projects
7. Keeping Eyes and Ears Open
8. Watch the People Attempting to Set the Trends
https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbestechcouncil/2016/10/11/how-to-stay-on-top-of-the-latest-technology-trends/#52dccfda7ef8
Tuesday, March 6, 2018
Blog Post 7
In my opinion, I believe Twitter is one of the easier social medias to use. It allows for people to discuss emotions or thoughts without posting paragraphs of information at once. It is an easy way for people to stay connected with each other. Twitter has always been a personal favorite. Apart from educational purposes, Twitter also provides an abundance of accounts for comedy or poetry or almost anything you are looking for. It is also a social media that people use often on during their day. Compared to Instagram where pictures are not normally posted more than once or twice in a day, it is very common to see people on Twitter tweeting multiple times a day. It is a simple way to know what's going on in someones life when they choose to post. I would recommend Twitter to anyone of all ages to use!
For the assignment 4 Web Design, I created a Weebly account. Weebly is a website tool I have used in the past. In my opinion, websites are sometimes very hard to make and format. While creating this web design, I found a lot of difficulties when trying to format text boxes and pictures. Another issue I experienced was not seeing the same thing on weebly compared to another person looking on my website. I had to reformat some of my information, but once I was finished I was very impressed with what I had created! Next time, I know I will still have some formatting issues but hopefully everything will go a lot smoother. Weebly is a great tool to use and will be very helpful as a teacher.
http://se16eme2040.weebly.com
I am someone who avidly uses social media but when it comes to certain things within computers like bookmarking and easily using shortcuts to navigate, I get lost. When introduced to Diigo, I was a little nervous at first. Once we did assignments with it, I began to realize how much I liked it. Diigo makes things easy when it comes to bookmarking and tagging certain websites. I really like that it can be public to a group of people so people can use the websites I found and I can easily use websites other people found. I was also amazed at how easily it was to annotate an article. Diigo offers very handy tools such as highlighters and sticky notes when annotating which is super helpful. Overall, I have had a positive experience with Diigo and I can definitely see myself using it in the future!
For the assignment 4 Web Design, I created a Weebly account. Weebly is a website tool I have used in the past. In my opinion, websites are sometimes very hard to make and format. While creating this web design, I found a lot of difficulties when trying to format text boxes and pictures. Another issue I experienced was not seeing the same thing on weebly compared to another person looking on my website. I had to reformat some of my information, but once I was finished I was very impressed with what I had created! Next time, I know I will still have some formatting issues but hopefully everything will go a lot smoother. Weebly is a great tool to use and will be very helpful as a teacher.
http://se16eme2040.weebly.com
I am someone who avidly uses social media but when it comes to certain things within computers like bookmarking and easily using shortcuts to navigate, I get lost. When introduced to Diigo, I was a little nervous at first. Once we did assignments with it, I began to realize how much I liked it. Diigo makes things easy when it comes to bookmarking and tagging certain websites. I really like that it can be public to a group of people so people can use the websites I found and I can easily use websites other people found. I was also amazed at how easily it was to annotate an article. Diigo offers very handy tools such as highlighters and sticky notes when annotating which is super helpful. Overall, I have had a positive experience with Diigo and I can definitely see myself using it in the future!
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