MyEME2040

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...

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 ...

 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...

 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...

Hey everyone! I am working on this blog journal a bit later than I normally would. You see, I usually prefer to do all of my work for EME2040 on Monday or Tuesday, but this week I was faced with some personal distractions as well as two upcoming papers that I felt more comfortable knocking out of the way before I did anything for this class. What I now realize is that this kind of sucks for anyone in my group! Sorry guys, the page will get posted today! I'm working on it right after I do this journal. The grade I chose is 6-8 and the standard I chose is LAFS.68.1.2. This standard is about taking large amounts of data and information and summarizing it for class consumption. Its described in a much more complex manor on the website, but it really is as simple as that. The question is, am I ready to implement this? Yes, absolutely, without question, easily. I'm a History major (I think I say that once a blog post), summarizing large amounts of information is the number one thing ...

 Copyright and Fair Use were popular topics on the internet a couple of years ago. Of course, this is back when I cared about what happened on the internet. The general question then was over what constituted Fair Use. For example; if someone does a reaction to your movie trailer on Youtube, then does that constitute fair use?  I imagine this question still continues to be subject of many legal battles today, because Copyright laws are very complicated. What is Copyright though? Copyright is establishment of ownership over something that is originally created; it is a protection for creators, that give them the exclusive rights to profit off of their creation. Seems simple enough; if you create a product with your mind, then you have the right to own it. Then how does Fair Use come into play? Fair Use is a protection from Copyright holders, where if something is used in a manner that does not generate profit or is used for educational purposes then you do not have to pay the C...

 I actually didn't start using Microsoft Word until I got to FSU. In highschool I used GoogleDocs to take notes. I ran into three issues at FSU that resulted in a switch to Microsoft Word. Issue 1-  I had to write papers now, and GoogleDocs is awful for formating proper Chicago style papers with footnotes. Issue 2- I had to turn assignments in using Canvas, and instructors required Word Documents more often than not. I was converting my GoogleDocs assignments to Word Documents anyway at that point. Issue 3- Google Docs has an input lag that I never noticed until the speed at which I take notes had to drastically increase to keep up with my professors. Microsoft Word won out, and I use it every single day. The ISTE Standard that resonates with me most is the Citizen Standard 3b. 3b states "Establish a learning culture that promotes curiosity and critical examination of online resources and fosters digital literacy and media fluency". This is a premise that is critical to e...