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    I think when I am a teacher, I will be using Excel to report my students' grades. I plan on teaching younger grades, such as kindergarten or first grade, and I think Excel is a simple way to be able to collect my students' grades and calculate them. On Excel, I will be able to sort the grades my students, assignment type, and subject matter. Excel will help me stay organized.      Something that was interesting to me when reviewing my classmates blogs was everybody's Bog #0. It was really interesting to me to see how we all differ from each other in our learning styles. It was also interesting to see how we all designed our newsletters differently, but were given the same instructions on how to make them. It is cool to see the creativity within the classroom.      I technology related skill I would like to learn would be learning all of the ins and outs of Excel. I know the basics, but I would really lik...

The flipped classroom is a model in which the student listens to prerecorded video lectures before they come to class. The students' role in the classroom changes from being passive receivers to active learners engaged in "exploration and discovery within the content's framework." In class, the students work with the content in group or individual activities with their teacher, who helps clarify and deepen the students' understanding. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_p63W_2F_4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdKzSq_t8k8 There is open education, content, and source. Open education is a philosophy about the way people should produce, share, and build on knowledge. Proponents of open education believe everyone in the world should have access to high-quality educational experiences and resources, and they work to eliminate barriers to this goal. Such barriers might include high monetary costs, outdated or obsolete materials, and legal mechanisms that prevent...

Whether physically impaired or learning disabled, adaptive technologies can support students with special needs. Some of the adaptive technologies are word processing, word prediction software, talking word processors, talking spell-checkers, and more. An example of this would be talking word processors which can r eview and edit one’s work, which can be so difficult for students who have poor reading skills, so this makes it easier by the use of text-to-speech  or talking word processing programs. Personally, I have never used one of these tools and not known anyone who has used one of these programs. Using these technologies in the classroom might be difficult because the school may not have enough funding to have them or there might not be enough kids to have the demand for these tools. Kids who do not need these tools may also try and use them, which would be detrimental to their learning because they are not doing the critical thinking that they s...

So far, I've gotten better at remembering that I need to tweet from my EME twitter account. The benefits for using Twitter is that we get to see each others' ideas and thoughts about the same projects and it is easy to connect with one another. So far, I haven't really experienced any issues with Twitter, since I have been using it for about five years. A new skill that I've acquired from working on the Web Page Design is inserting a calendar. I did not know how to do that before and now I do, which will be beneficial for me when I am a teacher. I liked this assignment because I will be doing this later on as a teacher, so it is giving me a chance to practice my skills. http://juliabarker.weebly.com I did not know how to use Diigo before, so everything we've learned from using it is a new skill to me. I love how you are able to comment and annotate articles and have the option to share them to the class or just keep them for yourself. Diigo can be...

This is a screenshot off of my high school's website. They have recently updated the website and now the teachers' websites are not posted next to their names. However, on the home screen there is now an option to log in, so I think that maybe if I was able to log in, there websites would become visible. My high school was Winter Park High School and anyone can view the website. I envision myself having a website for my class to accomplish my professional responsibilities. Since I want to teach kindergarten, my website would be geared to their parents. My website would include what we are working on in class and my goals for the students. It would also include my contact information, so the parents can contact me about their student and their progress anytime. I think the 3D printer pen could definitely be used effectively in a classroom with older kids. They would be able to create their ideas that they have in their head. I also think the 3D printer could also b...

I created my Sway on the aspects of competitive cheerleading. Sway was pretty easy to use which was nice since it was my first time using the website. I chose to make my Sway about competitive cheerleading because it is one of my passions and it was something that I could teach. https://sway.com/ym3vnRqO0oQRHG8m