Taylor Byron [EME 2040]

      Using Diigo, I learned how to share any sources I found that seemed important or relevant to a topic with my classmates and teachers. I also learned how to add annotations, whether that be shapes, text, highlighting, or adding a sticky note. I think this is applicable to the classroom because it allows students and teachers to share their work with each other. It's also useful because it allows students to share an annotated sheet with their thoughts and notes on the material.       I would use PowerPoint to support student learning for the first level of Bloom's Taxonomy, which is Knowledge, to list the terms and their definition. For example, if it was a vocab lesson, I would use transitions to first show the term then the definition which gives the students a chance to try to determine the definition on their own before I give them the correct definition. For Comprehension, I would use PowerPoint to create a game of some kind, like Jeopardy,...

     I took a course using LinkedIn Learning called "Teaching Techniques: Developing Curriculum" for my ILP Participation project. This course focused on teaching you how to create an effective curriculum regardless of the subject you teach. It talks about concepts like backward design, scope and sequence, learning objectives, and more. Ultimately the goal of the course was to help prepare you to create a curriculum that will be the most beneficial to your students and the easiest for you to create. This is super important to me because I am an English Education major and plan to teach high school English once I graduate. As a future teacher, I want to make sure that I am prepared to teach my students in a way that makes sense and promotes in-depth learning. Knowing how to create a curriculum, like this course taught me, is so important to being a successful teacher and making sure my students get the most out of the class. This is my VoiceThread  on the course! I ...

      Twitter is extremely useful for communicating with my classmates. I haven't had any issues with Twitter throughout this experience so far, which is great. I have learned that there are informational Twitter Chats where people discuss various topics and there are whole conversations that occur between professionals. For example, there is a Twitter Chat that we had to use this week in our online class called the  AECT Twitter Conference Backchannel. Things like this on Twitter allow professionals to communicate with people around the world and spread new ideas and concepts. This kind of communication that is available through Twitter is helping to benefit the increased spread of knowledge and the increased number of new ideas that are occurring in different fields. These are examples of the benefits of using Twitter.        The Web Design assignment taught me how to add a calendar to a website, which I didn't know how to do beforehand. I al...

      I went to the FSUS website, because I am completing my observations there and I thought it would be interesting to see what their website looks like. On the FSUS website, you have to go to Departments, High School, and then pick a subject (I chose English Department ) and then I looked at a few of the teachers' websites. First, I went to the teacher I'm observing and looked at her specific  website . On her website she gives a brief introduction to her students/parents of her students where she says who she is, her email, office location, and a short welcome message, as shown below in the screenshot. Without logging in, I can see the PDF  syllabus   for her 8th and 9th grade ELA classes, which are the grades and subject she teaches. She also gives the PDF of the school's Plagiarism Policy. Additionally, she has sub-pages to each class period she teaches where she provides a class calendar and any important links, which is also shown below in a screen...

     Initially, using Diigo was a little confusing. Some of the aspects were hard to navigate/figure out such as how to upload something to Diigo successfully for the group to see. I do like that it allows us to make comments and annotations directly on the websites/pdfs for everyone in the group to see. It makes it easy to communicate and share ideas or important information with the entire class and the teacher. Overall, I can see the usefulness of Diigo, but I personally didn't like the website because the formatting of it was a little hard to navigate as I mentioned earlier. With use, it became easier to navigate and understand, but I don't like that there were difficulties to begin with because as a new user on a website, it should be understandable from the beginning.      I like that I can share my thoughts with everyone who knows about my blog. I think it's a great way for people to communicate with each other and share ideas. I also really like ...

     For my ILP design, I chose to use Piktochart which is an online presentation website that I had never used before. I heard of it a few years ago from a former teacher but I didn't know how to use it or what exactly it was other than a great tool for educational purposes both as a student and a teacher. It can be used to create a multitude of assignments including infographics, presentations, posters, reports, flyers, and visual content specifically created for social media platforms. I chose to create an infographic discussing books that would be read in my future high school English class and why I chose those books/how they fit into the overarching theme of the unit. I did use a template for my infographic, but I replaced almost all of it with my own designs, colors, text, and layout. I used the template for the "Coffe Shop" look with the image of the cups on a counter at the top. I thought it created a cute layout for my topic because there is a perceived image of...

     I found the Twitter to be the most useful for communication on how other people are completing assignments for the class. We discuss how we feel they went, what we think we did well or need to work on, and upcoming assignments. I have interacted with a lot of people in the class through Twitter to discuss education posts, technology use in classrooms, our class and the assignments, and more. It's been beneficial to communicate about important educational topics we will face as future teaches. I think Twitter will be helpful in my future career as a teacher because it will give me a platform to ask questions to my peers. I can also continue to learn about different teaching techniques and methods to implement into my classroom as a teacher.      The digital divide is important in schools because it affects how students learn. Digital divide is the shift that exists between students who have technology and those who don't. It affects the way that stud...