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Blog #10: Data Collection

 Hello everyone! I used the token for Blog #9 and I definitely needed that for sure last week. However, I am back with the last blog of the semester! ✰     Data Collection is a bit daunting because I have never had to do to research or collect data in the past. However, I think I will find it very useful when it comes to collecting critiques from students or using data to understand opinions from students. If I make a survey on a certain topic, how would students think about these options? I also would want to use it to calculate grade averages so students can know how they did as a class versus other classes that I have. ✰     This semester, I really enjoyed reading my classmates' blogs and reading their take on these questions. I really liked the topics where we looked at each others' assignments and give critique on. It helped me see what my peers did, and what I could do different in the future based on my peers. I also loved talking and looking on opinions ...
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Blog #8: New Technological Skills

  Ms. Hale's 7th Grade Website ✰     With the website design assignment, I acquired a lot of new skills. I was a bit nervous when it came to this assignment, especially since I have never created a website before, but also I was super busy within my week to try and manage it all together. One of the skills I learned to do is changing the theme and adding pictures on the pages! Another skill is embedding the URL code, like what we had to do for the Google classroom and for the CC License. It was just a lot to do in such little time on my end, and also it was difficult when it came to parent resources. However, for future reference, making a classroom will help students and parents keep up to date about assignments, activities, and events! ✰     Some new skills I learned with Diigo are being able to highlight on different website pages and using sticky notes to write down notes. It's nice to be able to write ideas and be able to analyze them when looking at articl...
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Blog #7: Website Inspiration

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 ✰    When looking for inspiration, I went to the Florida State University Schools (aka Florida High) homepage. Last Spring semester (2020), I did field experience at FSUS before the pandemic hit when I was in EDF 1005: Introduction to Education class. It was ~very~ easy to find with all of its information, and it lists everything for departments for parents and teachers and resources for all viewing parties. I like the students and parents section where it lists policies for absences, Testing calendars, Code of Conduct rules, etc. Here is the link for Florida State University Schools website  ✰     With technology, I want to effectively manage my workload, but also use technology to implement and engage students. For myself, I definitely will be using extensions like Grammarly and Kami, which are chrome extensions that allow grammar and structure for documents. Kami is more for annotation and transfer between documents, where Grammarly is more for helping ...
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Blog #6: Diigo and Blog Experience

✰     My experience with Diigo has been fairly positive, even when it was my first time using the extension. I had some trouble adding the extension, but once I got it, it was easy to use and highlight through articles. I really like the highlight option and you can see it under your bookmark. I don't normally actively bookmark things within a group, but it's great for personal bookmarking for academic sources. ✰     Outside of the class, I never really had a proper blogging experience. So far, it's been enjoyable, and I enjoy just typing out my opinions about educational technologies. I wish the prompts were a little more personalized with providing examples, but I understand the use of privacy and access to information.  During the learning process, I have learned how to convey my feelings with words and I have also learned how to apply images as well as crediting them in blog posts. I also learned about styling the blog and personalizing it as my own. ✰ ...
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Blog #5: Digital Divide and Academic Software

 ✰     This week we talked about the Digital Divide and Website Evaluations. But first! I should mention my Twitter experience and usage before we dive in. I never had an interest in Twitter, so it was not useful for me. I usually was interacting with my friends and popular accounts, but I liked following academic institutions or followed some people in the education world. Twitter might be helpful in terms of connecting with colleagues and understanding and gaining new information, but I do not see it in use for the future. ✰     The Digital Divide is known as the technological gap between people who do and do not have access to technology. Whenever there is an educational gap, I get really passionate about it because I want students to have equal access to knowledge and education so they can be successful in the future. The Digital Divide affects students in not having the right technology access as others based on demographics and skills provided in their edu...
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Blog #4: ELA Standards

 ✰     This week in class, we discussed Internet Searching, ELA Standards, and tools in CPALMS. ELA Standards are defined differently by each state, whether they are under Common Core learning standards or another educational standard curriculum. On the FLDOE website, I chose the 7th grade ELA standards and one of the standards listed as being able to compare and contrast a text to another form of the said text, such as audio, a video, or a multimedia form, and being able to analyze it. This standard was one of the standards that I feel comfortable teaching. As a future history teacher, there are various forms of analyzing different documents that history has recorded, and it comes easy for me to compare and contrast two different documents using the same message  ✰     CPALMS is known as the online toolkit for resources and skills for teachers! For this site, I once again chose 7th grade Social Sciences, and I found some cool resources that I liked. Most o...
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Blog #3: Copyright, Technology Implementation, and Newsletter!

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✰    This week, we talked about the use of copyright and fair use. Copyright is when by under the law, an individual has the right to perform, reproduce, distribute, and display publicly on their presented work (whether it be a video, a song, movie, etc.). Fair use is when you use someone else's work and remaking a small bit from it for non-commercial use and to make new meaning of it. It is important to understand these concepts since as a teacher, you need to be able to give credit when it is due to others. We will be making lesson plans that others may use, and when we publish it out into the open, we have to be aware to make it our own and encourage our students to credit this material that they learn and look up material as well. ✰     There are also technology implementation issues that teachers will face among their students. One of these issues is academic dishonesty, and it affects students both offline and online academic platforms.  Sometimes, st...
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