Jenna's EME2040 Blogs

      While working on the Web Design assignment, I learned many new skills because I have never created a website before. I learned how to structure a website, make it visually appealing, make it easy to navigate, and how to embed accounts and a calendar to the website. I kept in mind the principles we learned in class when creating my website. I kept the font, colors, and sizes consistent and contrasting, I ensured that each text box and image was aligned appropriately, and I also ensured that nothing was too crowded on the website. What I liked about this assignment was how I could be creative and make the website look how I wanted it to. There's nothing I particularly disliked about the website assignment, as I had a lot of fun completing it. I can use the skills I learned through this assignment in my future career for if and when I need to make a website, or if I get the opportunity to teach others how to make a website. The QR code to my website is on the right: ...

 Here is my Bitmoji Classroom:

https://tinyurl.com/transleadseries This link leads to a webinar series, titled Transformational Leaders Series, that is "focused on elevating learning experiences." By attending these webinars, teachers can not only make connections, but receive exclusive content previews, explore leadership thoughts, and obtain professional certification.

     On a school's website in the class pages, there are many helpful things that are provided to the public. The teacher's name and a small background is one thing that was very apparent. I think that this is important to include so that students and parents all have an idea of who their teacher is. Important dates and due dates are other things that are included on the class page. To keep the privacy of the school and classroom, I believe that what is provided is enough.     To accomplish my professional responsibilities more efficiently and effectively, I plan on using technology for many things. I can use it to help set up my lessons, create activities, and for communication with students, parents, and faculty. Technology can help ease the process of doing all of these things, and more! The teacher productivity tools that I plan on using are things like Remind for quick communication with students and parents, Canvas for an efficient organization of the clas...

      Blogging is something that I never thought I would do. However, it has been very interesting to see how easy it is to do, and how functional it is because everything is easily accessible and in one place. There's nothing that I can think of about how I don't like blogging, it's nice and easy! Something that I have learned during the blogging process so far is that it can be easy to go back and edit a published blog. This helps me to not worry about if I made any mistakes on my blog because I can always fix it.     A Web 2.0 tool that I can use as a teacher is YouTube ( https://www.youtube.com/). This tool is a platform where users can post videos and accumulate followers, comments, likes, and shares. Many helpful videos with a variety of topics can be found on this website. As a teacher, YouTube can be helpful to show students fun videos when learning a new topic to make it more engaging and interesting for the students.     My initial experience...