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The new skills I learned from using Diigo are bookmarking, creating sticky notes, and interacting with others posts.. You can bookmark websites or articles you find useful and even create sticky notes to jot down thoughts you had about a specific sentence or column. You can also look at what others have bookmarked and their comments on the same thing as you. This gives you different perspectives on the same topic. Diigo can be useful in classrooms because you could give a website and have the students create sticky notes on things they thought were important or useful to the topic you’re discussing in class. It can be useful with team members if you are not able to meet up together but can still give your thoughts and see others at the same time. In your individual efforts it’s useful if you find an article you love and want to remember you can just quickly use Diigo to save it. I could use powerpoint as a supportive technology for student learning in for example, math. When you ma...

My twitter experience has been quite fun. It’s cool to interact with those who have the same interests as me and to learn about things going on in education at the moment. I’ve learned a few things from being on twitter academically, one is that there is such a big community of educators using twitter for the good which is very surprising to me. I never really thought about how social media isn't just for fun, it can be used to learn as well. I haven't experienced any issues because twitter is such a positive environment when used this way. When used for fun, there is a lot of hate and awful things that are being spread online, but used academically, it has been really positive and everyone is helping each other. The benefits of using twitter like I mentioned before, is that you can interact with those who are interested in the same thing as you. It’s nice to relate and talk about those things. Some of the new skills I required from the Web Design assignment are learning h...

I wanted to pick something for my first ILP that I found interesting as well as useful for my future, so I chose a tutorial on Excel spreadsheets. It may not sound interesting to you, but for me, I’m intrigued on how to better my skills and learn something new. At first I thought this would be really boring, but it wasn't all that bad. It’s like taking an online course at home for free and a way shorter amount of time. Plus, no grades. I thought it was really cool how people can come together and use their knowledge to help others.  He begins with making us take a quiz on our previous knowledge and then goes into explaining shortcuts within Excel. After this he explained how to use Excel with your desktop, such as creating a new one or saving one to your desktop. Then he talks about collaborating with Excel; like how you can share your documents or even view and comment on others. Finally, he talks about charts in Excel and creating forms. For the charts, he just explains all the...

We first started using Diigo in class and honestly, I had a hard time. The site wasn't very easy to navigate and wasn't visually pleasing to me. After installing it onto chrome and using it to annotate a website, it wasn't too bad. But, when we had to comment on other posts, it was very confusing and I could barely find the button to comment due to the words being so small and hard to find. After more attempts, I am sure it will come easier, but, it shouldn't be this annoying to deal with in the first place. Blogging has been way nicer than I previously thought. Coming into it I figured it would just be a useless resource, but I actually enjoy it. It's a fun, new way to do assignments and we are able to design ours how we want, to give it some personalization. Another thing is how easy it is to navigate through the blogger website. I don't mind doing these every week and I would recommend it for other courses or just for fun in general. A Web 2.0 tool I migh...

I used voice thread for this Blog Journal, link is down below! https://voicethread.com/share/11452021/

The technology standard I feel I would be most comfortable teaching with the help of pre-existing knowledge, would be “Knowing and using various text features (e.g., captions, bold print, subheadings, glossaries, indexes, electronic menus, icons) to locate key facts or information in a text efficiently.” I’ve learned how to do this since elementary school and have been able to improve on it through the years. The technology you would use for this (if I were to be teaching 2nd grade) would be online scavenger hunts for different text features, identification of text features on simple kid-friendly websites, and grade-level appropriate online textbooks. A technology standard I would have trouble teaching and would need more practice on is “Using information gained from the illustrations and words in a print or digital text to demonstrate understanding of its characters, setting, or plot”. The reason for this is because the technology you would have to use for it are online storybook read...

I began using Microsoft Word when I was in the 6th grade and became accustomed to it very quickly. We had a required class on computers and learned how to use Microsoft Word in order to do assignments. After that class I continued to use this software in order to write essays and short assignments, even projects for school. Teachers use Microsoft Word for many things such as notes for class that day, worksheets, letters, even permission slips. Copyright is a huge deal today, students are taking material off of the internet without permission and making it as their own. I don't personally have any experience with copyright but I have witnessed some of it. For example, YouTube is a very popular platform right now on the internet and if someone posts a video with music in the background and never asked for consent to use it, that’s considered copyright. A lot of people download music illegally on their phones or laptops as well as watching pirated movies. As a teacher, first of al...