EME2040

      Hi everyone!      The school website I looked at was my high school’s website in New Jersey. It looked very different from when I went to school there and had a bit of trouble trying to navigate it. I looked at a few of my old teacher’s pages and they seem to be ve4ry bare and unused. Most of them just contained a link to their google classroom page and their email. Some of the information I was not able to access because I am no longer a student in the district but it had relatively the same information that I was used to seeing before. It seems like teachers do not like to use the interface on the district’s website and would much rather put all of their class information on their google classroom. I personally like this better because much like canvas it is a great way to consolidate all of one’s classes into one interface.  Website Link: https://www.spfk12.org/Page/1322 I can definitely agree with most of the teachers that I would much rath...

  At first, I did not like Diigo, I thought it seemed a really complicated and generally unnecessary tool.  I have definitely used Source compilation applications that were just easier to use. But once you get the hang of it a lot of its features are very convenient in terms of being able to bookmark on access specific information within a source. I really like the bookmark and sticky note feature for this reason,  especially when sharing with other people who have not to spend as much time with the source this function is incredibly helpful. I think the interface of the website could use some updates but generally, I think it's a great collaborative website for classrooms. I would have definitely been a lot more lost and confused if there were no tutorials on how to use the different features. I have honestly had a really great experience with blogging. I think it's a really great unstructured space for me to be able to write down my thoughts in a more chronological matt...

  I started using Twitter in 2013 when I was in middle school. Most of my friends at the time were also getting accounts and it was a way for us to share content and send each other things. For the most part, I only used it with close friends and used the following function to follow my favorite celebrities, music artists, and companies. Now I use Twitter as my source for up to date news and content from some of my favorite creators. It is a really way to tailor the information you consume to match your more niche tastes. In the future, Twitter might be a way I connect with others that I work with, as well as my students. We use Twitter in this class and I can see myself using it within my classroom as well. Twitter has been a popular social media app for over 10 years and while I would like to think it will remain that way until I start my career there might be another application that people and teachers will use instead.  I think one of the big causes of the digital divid...

The ELA technology standard that I chose was for the 11th and 12th grades. I think that the standard that is most important is to integrate and evaluate multiple sources of information presented in different media or formats. This means that the students are looking at sources from different outlets as well as different kinds of sources. This means you were gathering resources for news outlets, databases, research papers, Studies and so much more. It is imperative that students have a variety of sources and credible resources. I thought you feel prepared to implement the standard based on my current skill set because of my years of working on a newspaper as well as research and other classes. It has always been emphasized to me that I need to be careful what sources I use and make sure that I am using a variety of them.   Coupling along with that I also think that the validity, reliability, bias, authenticity, and quality of Internet resources should be important to students. ...

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       When it comes to creating your own content a lot of times you have to modify or use content from other creators. As teachers we have to be very mindful of what we are using and if we have permission to use it. When I worked on my school paper, it was essential not to infringe on copyright or plagiarize anything. Academic honesty and integrity is something that is very important and not only something that teachers should abide by but something that they should be teaching their students. This also means a lot of extra work as a teacher to create lesson plans and instructional materials. It can feel easy to just modify and take other educators' lesson plans, but unless they’ve gotten permission from that teacher, then they are infringing on a copyright.      Decreased productivity is something that is very common but also very devastating to a classroom. Whether it’s lack of engagement with material or just the middle of the year blues teachers h...