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Blog Journal 10

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Hello everybody!! Lets get through this and get this done! I actually really enjoyed working on Assignment 5! I made a game of Jeopardy, and probably put in a lot more effort than required. It was geography based, and I made the answers to each question the color of the countries flag; this took up more of my time than was probably smart to let it take up. I learned a lot in doing Assignment 5, because I am not very familiar with powerpoint. I improved my ability to import images and create a powerpoint that is very much my own. I gained the entirely new skill of creating a presentation that is not linear, and only responds to my inputs through clicking! One screenshot would not do the assignment justice, so I am including 4. I believe strongly in making learning fun, and this is a lot of fun! Answering the question of how I will use data tools as a teacher is easy! I am always looking for criticism, because through criticism I can improve! I will use data collection surveys to see wha...
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My Bitmoji Classroom!

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  Its a fun class
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Blog Journal 9: So much to do and so little time

 No, really. I have a lot to do and not a lot of time to do it. Is this the result of procrastination? No, absolutely not. I am on top of my work. Its just a lot. I typed out a whole thing about busy work, but since this is being posted online for all to see, I'll keep the information about the work I hate to myself. Quick word of advice: if you're reading this with the hope to comment, then it will be significantly easier to respond to a post that is not this one. Check in next week though! Onto EME! I am in an asyncronous class! And its been fine. I have enjoyed some assignments and have absolutely hated others. Nothing has been difficult, just time consuming. I am willing to put in the work though. When I am a teacher I will improve the classroom experience by making good powerpoints. Do I hate making powerpoints with all of my heart and soul? Yes, absolutely I do. But damn, I'll make some high quality ones to teach the class. I will NOT be doing 12 slides every six minu...
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Blog Journal 8: Building a Website

I enjoyed making up my fake teacher and building a website. However, I engaged in a very unexpected activity in building the website; something I never thought I would have to do. I ended up having to code for my website! Now how could this happen, because at no point do the instructions point towards coding! Well, it is the result of my paranoia mostly. Allow me to explain, there were two categories for "High Pass" that created this situation. The first; every external link must open in a new page. This was easy enough, despite Weebly's design limitations. A link has to be inserted into a textbox, and once it is inserted a box can be checked off that makes the link open in a new page. This was simple, so how did I run into an issue? The second category; include a Creative Commons license. Also easy, Weebly provides an option for HTML file insertion! I clicked on the box, copied the HTML, and embedded it onto the website. So where did the issue start? Well my friends, the...
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Blog Journal 7: PBWorks is so Close

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Hello friends!!! I wanted to find a class page from a school here in Tallahassee, but I ended up having to give up on that. I did find a class page that I really liked though! I have no idea where the school is, but I like the page a lot! Its a high school social studies page, and there is not too much personal info on there. There is no information about the students or parents, but for the teacher we get his name, former occupation, his email, a photo of him, a photo he took, and a link to a photo album he has made. Mr. Negron served in Afghanistan before he was a teacher, and his image can be seen at the top of the page. I actually feel like this does not reveal too much information. I personally would not reveal that much about myself on a public site, but thats just me! I don't think Mr.Negron doing it is weird or harmful to him in any way. And, just to reiterate, he does not reveal much about himself anyway. In terms of how I see myself using technology, I see myself using a ...
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EME2040 Blog Journal 6: My Beef with Diigo

 Lets start off by saying that I actually like Diigo. I think that it could be valuable to me as a tool to highlight and leave comments on documents that I am accessing digitally. This is great, because normaly I have a word document with all of my notes on my topic; even with listing the page number it can often be hard to immediately find the information I need. The issue with this is not having all my information in one place, and possibly losing things but Diigo may actually fix that as well. I do need to learn how to use it anymore. Will I use Diigo in collaborative settings though? No, I will not. I rarely ever work on a project with multiple people, and I don't particularly like it. A bulk of my work is papers; I like to be recluse while I am working on those.  Seems like no big deal, why do I have beef with Diigo? Because for a Portfolio Item we have to include notes and highlights on the Diigo page. I like to use academic articles over websites, which are normally acc...
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EME2040 Blog Journal 5: The Digital Divide

 My early experiences using twitter have been lackluster if I am being completely honest. I still have not done a Twitter Chat, and I do not fully understand how to engage with one. I don't think that I will be using twitter a whole lot outside of this class, I'm not much of a social media person. In the mean time though, I need to  figure out how to engage with a twitter chat. #edchat is tonight. How are we supposed to know what the topic is?  The Digital Divide is the disparity between students who have access to technology and those who do not. The belief is that students who have home internet and computer access are at a disadvantage. A student without online access may have more difficulty doing assignments at home, accessing websites, and contacting their teacher outside of school hours. This happened frequently at my highschool, where an assignment would require online or computer access in some way, and some students did not have access to at home. The teachers a...
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