EME 2040 Blog

Most schools require teachers to maintain a set of class pages on the school website. Visit a school website and look at a few class pages.  Write a paragraph about what kinds of information you see publicly, (students and parents likely have access to information you will not see without log-in privileges).   Include a screen shot and link to the site .  Be sure to identify the school and grade of students. A paragraph about how you envision yourself using technology to accomplish your professional responsibilities more efficiently and effectively. Refer to the podcast and the textbook for ideas. Last week, we visited the Technology Sandbox.  Write a paragraph about how one or more technology that you experienced could be used in the classroom.  This is the Lawton  Chiles  High school website (where I went to highschool). It's a regular 9-12 high school.  The website gives links to all the different educational departments, a...

For ILP #1, I did a Lynda.com tutorial. I did training on Photoshop filters for photography. I have the entirety of the Adobe suite on my laptop from being a high school yearbook editor, but only have a limited experience with each of the programs. I’m really interested in Photoshop and Illustrator for digital art purposes; however, with the time I had for this project, and because of my lack of a drawing tablet to use, I figured photography filters was my next biggest interest. Everyone likes being able to post beautiful photos on social media, but not everyone has the money for a professional photographer, or even a high quality camera. So, with some Photoshop skills, maybe we can get the next best thing. This Lynda tutorial dealt mostly with the importance of smart filters when editing photos in photoshop. Smart filters allow you to try out filters without having to re-upload the photo over and over again when you don’t like the way the filter turned out. When converting a pho...

A paragraph about which Web 2.0 technologies you think are useful and/or not useful in the classroom.  Provide specific examples. A review of an interesting Web 2.0 tool that you might use when teaching (e.g. delicious, library thing, Scribd – but don’t choose one we’ve already reviewed/used in class).  Be sure to include a link to the tool. A paragraph about which technology advancement you believe holds the biggest promise for education.  Why?   I think all of the Web 2.0 technologies have varying levels of usefulness based on factors surrounding the classroom. I think it all has to do with what class you're teaching, what age of students you're dealing with, and what the use of the technology is. Different assignments have different needs to be filled. I think ones like siigo and scribd are the most all-around useful. They aren't necessarily age-specific with appropriateness or usage, and they can be useful for any type of research, project,...

Website 1 This website is an association website for Journalism students, making it a great resource for Yearbook students. It is extremely current. It has event deadlines and "Current News" on the home page, and the deadlines are not only current, but projected a good ways into the future as well. It is clearly a very well organized and planned website with a lot of input. Beyond that, I couldn't click each and every link because there were so many, but I followed many and failed to find one that didn't. The website is very relevant. It's obvious that this website is professionally created. It flows smoothly, makes logical and organizational sense, is clean and neat, and you can research this association to find its accreditation. There are no noticeable typos, and it's all on topic. For Authority, there is no identifiable author of this website. However, the website is a .org page, so we know that it is official, and as previously mentioned, simple rese...

I’ve been very bad about keeping up with twitter thus far in the semester. I really am not a social media person, and so I’m never thinking to go on Twitter and browse/post things. So far, I’ve had a couple random education accounts follow me, but most of my activity has been exclusively with my classmates. I need to interact more heavily, because if there is more education tech stuff in my feed, I’ll have more inspiration to post things. The digital divide has to do with the disparity between educational success in students created by the access (or lack thereof) of technology. Students may be expected to have access to technology by their teachers, and therefore have work that requires technology. The digital divide can be created because some students don’t have access to technology or internet, or perhaps have to work really hard to gain access to it, or only can access outdated technology. This puts them at a disadvantage of being able to succeed as much as those students with ...

I believe that I’d have the most ease with teaching the technology standards that have to do with consuming media, rather than with creating media. Although I feel confident with producing media for my own projects and assignments, I don’t know that my confidence is strong enough to teach that to students yet. However, if I was asked to teach students how to analyze the differences in how a poem conveyed meaning in written form versus in spoken, or recorded form, I’d be in the zone. I also think I’d be particularly prepared to teach about vocabulary and context. I consider myself to be really understanding of etymology and context. The biggest skill I learned from the newsletter was how to put together little stories like this without context or prompts. I’m very uncreative in regards to this, and have had very little education background so far, so I felt a bit on the spot. But I think I put things together okay considering. Otherwise, I felt like all of these were skills I had ...