Key's EME 2040 Blog

 I recently created my own teacher website! I made it using weebly, which is a program designed to help people put together websites for personal or professional reasons. I felt really comfortable using the website as all of the functions were pretty easy to manage. I enjoyed creating my website as it has always been something I have wanted to do. I think it turned out really well. I can definitely use the skills I learned to create teacher websites in the future. http://barnesedge.weebly.com/  Diigo is a bookmarking website where users can look up and tag web pages. It also lets you annotate on any document. I think Diigo is a very useful tool, although I still feel as though there is a lot I don't know about it. I can use the annotation tool to take better notes in my classes and, share important resources with my teammates, and highlight information that I may need while teaching.   Technology can often aid teachers with their own professional development. If in person conferenc

I visited a high school AP Psychology and AP World History teacher's website. She is also the sponsor for the NHS, Rho Kappa, and SOAR. Her home page included links to the other pages, as well as some photos . The other pages were titled About me, Contact me, Blackboard, AP Psychology, AP Psychology Textbook, AP Psychology Study Videos, AP Modern World History, AP Modern World History Study Videos, NHS, Rho Kappa, and SOAR. Blackboard was the only page where login information was required.   https://meltonpv.educatorpages.com/    I think I will use technology to take attendance, create lesson plans, convey material, and email students, parents, teachers, and administrators. I will most likely use whichever software the school uses to do the majority of these tasks. I will use gmail, powerpoint, and word as often as I can. I hope to become more familiar with other online tools for teacher productivity, but I think I need to learn more about online tools and teacher productivity befo

I did not have any experience with Diigo before my EME 2040 class. I am still not entirely sure what it is, but it seems to be generally easy to use. I have not done much with it yet, but from what I can tell, the platform is simple and easy to navigate. I think once I know more about Diigo and how I will be using it in class I will have a stronger opinion on the website.   Blogging so far has been simple and easy. I do struggle however with writing in an informal style. I can write informally when I need to, but I find when I am given a specific prompt with a specific audience, I tend to get right to the point and use more professional sounding grammar and sentence structure. I also think that I have been so hardwired to give a formal response to assignments that it is difficult to add more informal writing into this kind of work. So far, I have learned how to write blogs, and how to navigate blogger. I already had a general sense about what blogs were, but it is great to be able to w

Before starting my EME2040 course, I had not used twitter at all. I have posted a few times but am still not familiar with the format and utilities. I have not interacted with anyone so far, although I would like to begin checking up on the accounts that I have followed more frequently. I think twitter could be helpful in my future career as many teachers use twitter to participate in the educational discourse community. I would love to use this resource to connect with other teachers, especially those who have different backgrounds than I do.  The digital divide negatively affects students in schools. I feel that teachers will often assume that all students have access to the internet and technology when this is simply not the case. We need to be more aware of the digital divide and how it is not only affecting students, but families and communities as well. I think the main causes of the digital divide is poverty and location. Many families may not be able to afford access to the int

 I think that the implementation of technology standards in schools is very important. I looked at the first grade standards and technology matrices for ELA. The standards include learning how to use online textbooks, storybook software, text features and recording devices. I think that I would be able to teach the students about online textbooks and how to use recording devices. I have used both in school and feel comfortable with them. I do not think I would be able, as of right now, to teach students about storybook software and text features. I have never interacted with storybook, and I'm not familiar with text features.  CPALMS is a very useful website where Florida teachers can access resources such as lesson plans and class activities. I hope to create my own lesson plans when I become a teacher, but I found a lesson plan that involved my two favorite things: math and music. Although I do not have access to the full plan, it involved using melody and rhythm to strengthen co

 Copyright gives the owner of a certain piece of intellectual creation the right to make copies, reuse characters, and legal property. When dealing with copyright laws as a teacher, I would make sure that the documents and resources that I am using are legally allowed to be distributed and reproduced. Fair use policies allow people to use copyrighted material under certain circumstances. When developing instructional material, I would research specifically what I wanted to do with the copyrighted resource and determine how I can legally use it with my students.  One form of academic dishonesty occurs when a student uses information they found online and does not site the source, or is dishonest about where they found it, how they used it, or if it was their own words. As a teacher, I can work to combat academic dishonesty by utilizing software that can detect when academic dishonesty occurs, and encouraging and helping my students to correctly site and use online resources in their wor