blog journal 7

So far, I have loved using Twitter for this class. Prior to taking this course, I had never considered Twitter to be an educational resource because I had only used it for social/fun purposes. However, it has been a great way to connect with fellow students in this class. I like to see their ideas and shared articles and how they are managing the assignments of this class. I have not experienced any issues because Twitter was already familiar to me so it was very convenient and comfortable to begin using it in my academic life.

I thoroughly enjoyed the Web Page Design assignment, it really made me excited to be a teacher one day. It made me envision how life would be to have my own class and accomplish teachers tasks. I can see how having a class website would be helpful because you can have everything in one place and it is very accessible for parents and students. I would be able to post pictures from the class that the parents would enjoy as well as make important announcements that everyone would have access too. The link to Google calendar was also a great idea and would be a useful tool.

http://eme2040olivia.weebly.com

On Diigo I have learned how to bookmark useful sources that I find online. I have learned how to put tags on them with buzz words that make them easy to search for and find for others. Also I have learned how to annotate sources which is a great tool to be able to do to online sources. I can tell that Diigo would be a very helpful technology to use in my future classroom because not only could I save/annotate/tag sources but I can see what kind of websites fellow teachers are using in their classrooms and how they are using them. It would make it easier to find lesson plans, helpful articles, related teaching information, etc.

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