EME 2040

 The particular website that I looked at is for a school in New Jersey. The teacher's website that I looked at is one of a PreK-3 teacher. On her page she had class resources page, a documents page, an inside our classroom page, and an announcements page. It is easy to navigate through and everything is well organized. She also included class photos which provides a personal element for the parents because it allows for them to see what is going on inside the classroom. Miss Danielle's Class In my classroom I plan to utilize different online tools to better communicate with parents and efficiently accomplish my own tasks. I would like to maintain an online page if my school allows me to. If not, I would like to collect a list of parent emails at the beginning of the school year so that I can still maintain communication. I will also most likely utilize other online tools such as Microsoft Applications to create many of my in class materials.  Using Canvas as a work space was a...

Diigo is an interesting application and unlike any one that I have used in my previous academic experience. I like the ability to share PDFs and websites with our class as a group. It is also really helpful when having to do readings for class online. Its annotation features for web based articles and other readings is incredibly useful.  Using blogger this semester has been really beneficial for me. It has allowed me to not only utilize me knowledge, but attach it to real world scenarios. It will be a useful tool in later courses or teaching experiences as it provides me with resources that we have engaged with throughout this course. I would like to continue recapping and applying my knowledge after this blog has served its academic purpose.  A Web 2.0 resource that I take advantage of frequently outside of those we have discussed in class would be Google Docs and other Google applications. I use Google Docs as a staging area of sorts for most of my discussion board posts fo...

My early experiences using Twitter took place when I was in high school. I didn’t use it often, and mostly only had it because my peers did. I kept it downloaded on my phone for years and would receive notifications sparsely from the few accounts I did follow. However, Twitter can be used for creating beneficial connections for future career opportunities. If I were to use Twitter again it would most likely be for that reason only.  The digital divide can affect student success in school because some people may not have technology such as laptops or tablets or decent Wi-Fi. If technology is the mode in which most of the curriculum is being taught it would be inequitable. In order to avoid the ever growing potential of this issue, teachers can allow students to turn in assignments handwritten. They can also make certain that any assignment that must be done so by using technology accessible to the students at school.  Academic software that I would like to include in my classro...

 I chose to cover the K-2 benchmarks. One that stood out to me was the first standard which was communication and collaboration and modeling and simulations. Essentially, for the communication and collaboration standard the student needs to be able to differentiate  between multiple digital tools that can be used for communication or collaboration,  perform searches of basic keywords and communicate information with others, collaborate with others to solve problems using technology, and give and receive constructive criticism on a collaborated project. For the modeling and simulations standard the student needs to be able to define simulation and understand the concepts presented by a simple simulation, explain how models and simulations are used solve real issues regarding science and engineering, explain how models can represent real systems, and use models to come up with solutions to questions alone and with others. Based on my current skill set, I believe that I coul...