mary milne eme2040

Adaptive technologies are different forms of technology used to fit students' different learning styles. Adaptive technologies can be extremely helpful for students who have learning disabilities, and need a different way to learn than other students. Honestly I don't think I have seen anyone use adaptive technologies, but I think a common one that may be used in the classroom is word processing. It's for the students who do not possess fine motor skills and cannot hold a pencil or pen and write legibly. So this technology allows them to create legible documents without having to hand-write them. In Bloom's Taxonomy, there are six levels in the pyramid. The first level is knowledge. This is essentially recalling facts and information. So for example, if a teacher was using a PowerPoint to teach geography, she could go through the different states and countries and get the students to recall some of them and locate them. Next is comprehension. This one could be used to...

For my ILP, I made a PowerPoint presentation in the form of a flyer. This sounds weird since a flyer is usually a single piece of paper or pamphlet. One my PowerPoint, I basically made each slide a piece of information needed for the flyer. My presentation was for a first grade field trip to the zoo. One each slide, I gave brief information about what was happening, what was needed, and why this field trip was happening. I think this can be helpful for when teachers have a parent-teacher night. Rather than handing out a bunch of flyers, the teacher can project this PowerPoint for all parents to see. The PowerPoint does not have a lot of words, so it's not like the parents are going to be reading something super fast and trying to retain a lot of information. This presentation is basically a deconstructed version of a flyer. Flyers need to be appealing, brief, informative, and to the point. I added in colorful, fun images to liven up the presentation. In flyers, it is helpful to use...

Honestly, I am not having any issues with Twitter yet. I think it has been kind of fun and interesting to use for class. I think everyone in class is seeming to have an easy time with it. It has been an easy and effective way to communicate with other students in our class, and it is nice to see how other people are doing on assignments and such. I think it was fun to see everyone's reaction to the Tech Sandbox. I think we all had a pretty good time and we got to take some fun pictures and videos to tweet. I had never designed a webpage before so I went into it pretty intimidated. I created a Weebly and started out with that, but then created a Wix to see if that was any better. I stuck with Weebly and ended up creating my webpage on that site. Some things were harder than others when creating the site. Sometimes it wouldn't let me expand pictures like I wanted to, or change the font/font size. Other than that, nothing was too hard. I think it was a good experience because I d...

I went on my high school and elementary school’s websites, and unfortunately neither of them had class pages. It honestly took me a while to find a somewhat decent one. I went to Leon High School’s website and found a link the Teacher Websites and clicked on that. They list all the teachers and once again, it took me a while to find a teacher who actually wrote something. I ended up finding this teacher on the website. There are a few categories under each teacher’s name and I clicked on “Meet the Teacher”. The teacher I chose is a math teacher and she started teaching at Leon in 1993. She talked a little about her family and mentioned that she graduated from FSU. At the end of her description, she gave her email and told parents and students that they could contact her or meet her after school for extra help. The link is https://www.leonschools.net/Page/16932 Honestly, I didn’t really know that teachers would post class pages on the school’s website, but I think it’s a good id...

After listening to the Web 2.0 technologies podcast, I think that some of the useful technologies include Twitter, Diigo, and LinkedIn. In the podcast, it was said that forms of social media are very useful in the classroom. One in particular was the use of blogs. The podcast said that using blogs gives students a stage and an audience to hear and listen to their thoughts and ideas. Also, using Twitter was mentioned in the podcast, because students can follow people or accounts related to their subject and also tweet questions to these accounts and hope for a response back. Using Twitter gets students a little bit closer to a main source of information. One technology that I don't think would be helpful is other forms of social media like Facebook or Instagram. There are other ways to communicate with one another in a more academic way, like by using blogs or Twitter. One Web 2.0 technology I might use in the classroom is Edmodo. It is similar to Blackboard and other applications...

I have been using Twitter since middle school. Everyone had them when I was that age so I felt like I needed one too. It has been a way for me to connect with other people I met who maybe don’t live where I live. It is also a way to find some funny memes. But Twitter is actually pretty cool to me personally, because you can literally follow anyone and they could be on the opposite side of the world. I think it’s cool to follow celebritites and big news channels to be updated on what is going on in the world. I follow the FSU Education twitter page along with the EME2040 page. I like being able to see the articles that they tweet about and also see what other people are saying using the hashtag for our course. Like I mentioned, Twitter is universal, so for my future career it could help me connect with others in the same profession and learn new ways of teaching.  Some schools may not have the means to provide students with technology like other schools do, thus limiting the exp...

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