Twitter, Web Design, and Adaptive Technology
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 of what I was already doing and
then I could match what I was doing to one of the design principles. It was
also interesting to learn how to navigate Weebly and all of its functions to
create a website of my own. I could probably find a better template that fits my
purposes more specifically next time I create a website. The pre-made templates
on Weebly didn’t really fit what I was doing, so I just had to choose one that
fit the best.
Assistive and adaptive technologies are used to help disadvantaged
students the same chance as those who are not disabled. It allows the students to
get on the same level as their peers and helps them get around the disability
that they have. I have never personally used assistive technology myself. I
have worked with children that have autism, a type of mental disorder that
affects communication and behavior. They were at the preschool level, so there wasn’t
a huge focus on using technology or a huge focus on learning for long periods
of time. The challenges that could come of using adaptive technologies in the
classroom is that they might take up a lot of space it the classroom is small.
They could also be broken my other students because children are always curious
about new things and they tend to gravitate towards things that usually can’t
be messed with.
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