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Blog Post 10: Surveys, Classmates, and Continuing in Tech

  After learning all of the vast types of data one can gather as a teacher to improve the classroom, I would definitely make surveys to gather it if I was a teacher. Analyzing data is important for teachers to do regardless of grade-level, but I would want to in a high school environment, so the type of data gathered might be a little bit different than lower-grade levels. For one, students generally have more autonomy, so most of the datum would be about the students’ preferences and performance instead of parents. If I was a high school math teacher, I would create a survey to find out how students feel about the format of exams and quizzes. I would probably use Google Forms to create a survey to make students take during class with school computers. I’d put some multiple-choice questions about different parts of the assessment so that students can rate them on a scale of 1-5. The answers to these questions can be gathered automatically by the software, so they’ll make it easier ...
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Blog Post 9: Distance Learning, Open Educational Resources, and Power Point

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     Distance learning has definitely been a roller coaster. Especially when most of us have been doing it now for over a year, without having done it before. It's almost as if I'm used to it at this point, but that's not to say that I enjoy it. This time last year, when this was just going to be an extended Spring Break, it was inconvenient yet exciting because it was new, but now it's as if I forgot what it was like to actually go to school. As things have changed over this one-year period, the challenges have changed too. On top of the fact that there's a Pandemic, I was completely new to being an online student, so accomodating the future of my academic career within a 13-15 inch laptop was challenging. Taking tests turning in assignments turned out to be harder than I thought, especially with the use of Honorlock and the formats of the assignments changing. Everyone was experimenting to see what worked, and the inconsistency made it difficult for students and t...
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Blog Post 8: Teacher Webpages, Diigo, and Teaching in Technology Innovation

    When I was at school a lot of my teachers had Weebly websites. I don't know why this made me believe that I would innately know how to use Weebly, but it did, and I was surprised to make an account and realize that it is not as easy as it seems. It was really fun to discover the endless amounts of features that could all make the coolest website, I learned a lot. The assignment itself was challenging, however, it was pretty fun to experiment around, and also all of the requirements allowed for a finished web page with a lot of information. If we didn't have to do all of those things I would have never seen the cool features that Weebly had to offer, and finding out how to do certain things makes me feel like I have a shot at making a decent teacher website in the future. Especially when I look back at it now, I can reference a webpage and all the components we had to add in, stuff which I would have never done unless the assignment challenged me to. The assignment also mad...
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Blog Post 7: Teacher Websites, Wikis, and Technology Use in My Future

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    While I was at school, a lot of teachers had websites that could be accessed from the school website. Most of the time they were Weebly websites and other times they were just webpages on the school website itself, but regardless of where they were made, not many teachers used them. Some of them would bring it up on the first day of school or put the link on the syllabus, and never actually use the website. Others would put important files in there and keep it semi-updated, only really bringing it up for students that may have missed school for a long time. For my high school, all of the teacher websites were webpages of the main school website and could be accessed by clicking the "Department" tabs on the navigation bar. This was pretty helpful because everything was found in one place. It also looked good because everything followed the theme of the school website with the school colors and the layout stayed consistent for all teacher webpages. With the exception of som...
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An Image About Potential Solutions to the Various Layers of the Digital Divide!

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  "Some solutions for solving the digital divide with schools, parents & community"   by  rebe_zuniga  is licensed under  CC BY 2.0
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Blog Post 6: Diigo and Web 2.0

      I procrastinated a lot with the Diigo activities because I found the website hard to understand at first. It was more so the concept of a social bookmarking tool that I did not understand since I have never used one. Honestly, though, now that I learned how to use it, I can see why people like it. When I first made my account I was taken to my group's feed, and the interface of that page looked weird to me, like an outdated Facebook theme, so I was kind of put off. However, the rest of the website has a fun and simple interface and was very easy to use. The annotating feature was the coolest thing for me, it really showcased why people like these so much. There was so much to do! Also, there is a cool extension that you can download onto Chrome which syncs up to the articles in different websites so you can annotate from there, so I am looking forward to learning more about that. In all, I can see how Diigo has its place in the Web 2.0 experience. It is a place...
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Blog Post 5: Twitter, the Digital Divide, and Academic Software

When I think about all of the social media sites I have used in the past few years, Twitter has definitely been one that I have enjoyed the most. I created my first Twitter account in the summer of 2013 one night while I was bored at my grandma's house. I had been on Instagram for some time, but I wanted a social media where there wasn't much of a pressure to post or where you weren't limited to only posting photos and videos. Also, a lot of the memes that would go viral on Instagram were screenshots of viral Tweets, so I really wanted to give the site a shot. When I made my account, I was not wanting to post about my personal life, so I made one that stayed pretty anonymous. Honestly, Twitter was hard to get used to at first, it was very different than Instagram. To the point where after making my account and not being able how to figure out how to use Twitter, I logged out and did not reopen the app for another three months. But it ended up being one of those things that ...
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