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...

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 pr...

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 ...