EME2040

       After working on the web design assignment, I feel that I learned a lot more than I had expected to as I was working on this assignment. As I have mentioned previously, I am not usually great with technology and seem to struggle with learning new applications when working on school projects. I did like that after this project I have discovered that creating your own website is free and easy to do. Since I am hoping to become an art teacher after graduation, I feel that this new skill well come in handy when creating my teacher website that I can share with students, parents, and faculty.        Over the course of the semester, I have learned a lot through working on Diigo. I do feel that this resource will come in handy in my future classrooms as it provides great ways to share easy to access resources with your students and for them to reciprocate. Being able to annotate, share the link to the resource, and being able t...

     I was able to find a few examples of teacher class pages on the Leon County High School website. I noticed looking through these that the teachers typically list all their contact information and the office hours at which they can be reached through these modes of communication. Also listed is the class syllabus for each of the different classes that teachers are running for the year. The last thing that is very important listed on the pages are the class calendars for each class period throughout the day. When I eventually become an art teacher, I envision using technology for my classroom in order to keep information organized and easily accessible for myself and the students. I will create a teacher website or use the resources the school provides for me to post important information like the class syllabus, class schedule, contact information, and office hours. I think that canvas is a great site to use when organizing all of this information or using a website...

       Based on my initial experiences with Diigo I think it is a very helpful tool. I like how people can not only share resources but add tags and short descriptions to those resources so that other can find them easily later by searching key words. The sit overall seems very easy to navigate which means people are more likely to use it in the future. I also think this is a great tool to implement into a future classroom to have students share their research on. The only thing I do not like about it is that you can only use it on google chrome which means it may not always be easily accessible if you are used to or only have other browsers.        I personally am not a big fun of blogging as I do not always feel confident enough in my writing to share it with others. I am just not a fan of writing or sharing my writing in general as I am more of a visual learner that is also how I prefer to share my thoughts. However, I do e...

      I personally have not used twitter much throughout my life unless it was for a college course. The first time I ever used twitter was in one of my first college English courses. We used it for posting comments about issues or articles we had read in class as well as used it to discuss these things with other students in the class. I have only used twitter for academic purposes and have not used it recreationally or professionally before. However, I do think that this is a useful resource for making connections with other people in your field of work in order to expand your professional network.     The digital divide amongst schools has begun to negatively impact those students who do not have access to technology in schools. Technology is becoming more involved in the classroom and in the real world every day. The students need to be prepared to use all of these new technologies once they are higher up in their education and in the real world. B...

  I chose 6 th grade ELA technology standards to look at for this assignment. The standard that I want to focus on is LAFS.6.SL.2.5 which talks about the importance of including visual displays and multimedia components. This meaning that it is important to have a wide variety of components in a lesson in order to appeal to all students learning styles. You can do this as a teacher by including visual graphics on presentations, using creative applications on the computers for projects, using audio or videos found online, etc. I do feel prepared to implement this standard into my future classroom because I have had to work with different educational technology tools as I have moved through my education. Through the repetition of project styles I have run into over the years I feel confident enough to utilize the technology and teach others how to utilize it. One of the tools I found on CPALMS for middle school visual arts were handouts. The one I think that woul...

Copyrighting your own work means that you are the only one that can use and distribute that work. It is not only important to protect your own work but is also important to understand the copyrighting laws in order to avoid accidental plagiarism. The copyright act of 1976 explains the fair use guidelines and how they allow people to copy some parts of materials for educational purposes. It also depends on how much of a material you are copying when writing your own work. I think as a teacher it is extremely important to make students aware of these boundaries and rules when it comes to using others’ materials in their own work. The best way to do this as a teacher is to make sure that you teach your students how to correctly cite the sources they are quoting from and make it a requirement on assignments. This way, students will learn from an early age how important it is to pay attention to copyright laws in order to avoid things like accidental plagiarism later in ...

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