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Data Collection, Other Blogs, and New Skills

I think that I would most likely use data collection and reporting for students grades and improvements for the classroom. It can also be used for the beginning of the year to get to know students and gauge where their knowledge of the subject stands. Specifically, in first grade, I would mostly use this with my students’ parents to collect information about my students and to get any comments from the parents about their concerns. The most likely application that I would use data collection and reporting would be to report student grades and scores to either the principal or the head of the grade. I could also see it being used between teachers and staff about meetings or days off. The most interesting topic that I have found from my classmate’s blogs was the blog about the website design assignment. I really liked seeing all of the different styles that people used. It was also cool to see all of the different grade levels and subjects and what everyone was interested in potent...
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The Flipped Classroom, OERs, and PowerPoint

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The flipped classroom is as teaching method that basically introduces the material before class and then the class-time is used to understand the material better and answer any questions that might have arisen during individual study. This method has not really made it into many classrooms, but I feel like one of my classes in college is version of this flipped classroom. We do readings before we meet in class and then during our class time, we discuss what the reading was about and what our opinions were. I feel like this method might only work with classes such as English, history, and maybe science. I fell that math is such a formula and example subject that students need the instructional time in person rather than trying to do it on their own. Open educational resources are resources that anyone can access and are usually available online. A blog site that I found while searching around for example is called oerhub . This blog has a vast collection of articles that provide r...
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A Reflection on Diigo, Bloom's Taxonomy, and Technology

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From Diigo, I have learned about annotating an actual website page, which I never really thought about before. I also learned about the group aspect of Diigo and how to share within a group. I think this can be really useful for homework, group projects, and individual projects. Diigo can be used in the same way that we have in class where it is a place where all of the students in the class can see the assignment and then post their answers and findings in a place where it is visible to all in the group. It can also be used to form groups for projects with multiple members. It could serve as the place where all information found on the subject can be placed so that all the members in the group are aware of all the facts and incoming information. Bloom’s Taxonomy has six different levels: knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation. PowerPoint could be used in a lesson to help students go through these levels. Knowledge: remembering of previously ...
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ILP #2 Design - Piktochart

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For the second ILP project, I chose to do a design technology. That technology was the website Piktochart. Piktochart allows the user to create any type of info-graphic to present either online or to be printed out. I designed an classroom announcement page that is kind of like the classroom website we had to create for our last assignment. Link to VoiceThread presentation: Original Piktochart: Loading...
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Twitter, Web Design, and Adaptive Technology

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  My experience with twitter hasn’t really changed since I started tweeting. I still always forgot to tweet each week, but I’m trying to be better about that. I am already pretty familiar with Twitter and all of its functions, so I think the only thing I learned was the use of twitter back channels for conferences. It was interesting to see all of the information that was coming out of the conference and being put on Twitter because I would never have thought to look on Twitter for information on a conference. Other than that, I haven’t really learning anything thing new. I also haven’t had any issues, just my own problems with forgetting to tweet. From working on the Web Design assignment, I have learned more about the CRAP principles of design. I have always liked organizing and designing my room or an art project and I have just used whatever I thought looked good and it was loosely based around design principles. Learning the exact deign principles has made me more aware ...
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Web Design, Future Technology Use, and Tech Sandbox

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For the teacher pages, I looked at my high school’s website. At Marathon Middle High School, the grades range from 6-12. When I looked for teacher pages, there were only three pages on the entire website, and they were all created by the same teacher for her three classes. She teaches grades 9-12, but most of her students are the freshmen and sophomores that take Biology 1. It seems that the last time these pages were edited were during the 2016-17 school year. On her web pages , she includes NMSI study session dates, test date reminders, material lists, and links to her PowerPoint lessons. You can see all of this information was a student or a parent because when you go to the school website, there is no need to login as all of the information is public domain.  https://www.keysschools.com/domain/1116 In the future, I see myself using a digital calendar to keep track of my events along with my paper planner. I would probably also use Outlook email or any other email syste...
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Web 2.0 Tools

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My initial experiences with using Diigo was pretty good. It was very easy to install and then the functions were very easy to use and move around whatever website I was annotating. I liked that I could take screenshots and only annotate a particular part of the article I was reading and share that screenshot with whatever group I wanted to. I think the only thing I didn’t like as much was that the sticky notes would stick to the top of the page and not necessarily around the section I wanted them to be placed in. Also, in order for a group to see a sticky note I posted, I would have to change it to public and then select the group, so that was annoying whenever wanted to add a new sticky note. The blogging experience was fairly similar to my experience with using Diigo. It has a simple format and it was easy to navigate the website and also mess around with all the different setting for the blog page. I like that there are so many different themes that you can choose from and tha...
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