EME 2040 Spring 2019

I have now been working with the program Diigo for a couple weeks, and I feel confident using many different tools. I can quickly save websites, comment, annotate, and find sources to help with the topic I am researching. I could see this resource being very useful when having students research and share sources they have found. Especially in a group project, students could collaborate, comment, and share content quickly and easily. As a professional and future educator, I could see how this program could help me to collaborate with other teachers, save helpful sources, and easily access various tools. All in all, I am continuing to learn more about Diigo, and I find that this program provides a great teaching and learning tool for educators and students. I think PowerPoint can be an extremely useful tool in the classroom and can aid in student comprehension and learning. When looking at Bloom’s taxonomy to analyze the use of PowerPoint, it can be explicitly seen as to how useful th...

Hello again! We are now officially over half way through the semester. For the past two months I have been using Twitter, and I can easily see the benefits of this technology. It is fairly easy to use and operate on my cell phone and I have been following some educational resources that post some interesting things. Twitter can be used to keep up with people, learn new strategies, and interact with fellow educators or resources that can help teachers. I have had no issues with twitter and find it easily accessible every day.  Another project I have been working on is the web design assignment, which took me a long time but taught me many skills. I haven’t used a program like Weebly before, and it definitely had a learning curve. After finishing, I now know how to change the layout, insert a google calendar, and the basics of creating a website. If I were to make a new website now, it would be much easier, and I would be more efficient at completing it. I like the fact that the d...