Jenna's EME2040 Blogs

     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...

 

      My early experiences using social media tools for my Personal Learning Network was mainly on Instagram. I followed all my friends and people that I knew at my school. Posting on my story and being able to see other people post on their stories and pages helped me feel connected to people even when I wasn't physically seeing them. For my future, Instagram can be helpful for networking and messaging people.     Growing up, I went to a digitally rich charter school and public high school. We always had Chromebooks and smartboards that the teachers would use. I was fully prepared to use technology in college because of how much my schools relied on it for our education. If anything could have been done better to aid my learning using technology, I would say the prevention of cheating could have been addressed better. Classmates in the past and currently are corrupted by using the Internet to cheat, and it makes collaboration a bit difficult.     I wo...