Blog Journal #2

There are various factors that input of educators using technology in the classroom. Students use technology in the classroom to enhance different ways to expand their ways of learning. Such as verbal learners using videos, audio-podcast, or even interactive brain games.
The International Society for Technology in Education consists of a group of individuals that support educational technology. The ISTE Standard that I found interest in the most are "Educational Leaders"  that support the standards and are able to enhance the standards by giving information to each group. In the professional growth, they focus on certain topics such as equity, digital citizenship, and system building.
Digital Natives are individuals that are born into an era where technology has already aroused. I honestly disagree with digital native even though it has a lot of easier guidelines, I feel that it has made this generation lazy in not only studying but also it does not fully prepare them for the work field. With technology expanding it is only making our youth but handy on the technology. Therefore, if any technology is down. How would they react to that? I do believe that technology does have its good part but can also lead to our youth only relying on technology.

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Blog Post #11 : Online Planner

The next technology-related skill that I want to learn is how to create a digital planner on my computer. I have used Google Calendar before but it was very basic to me and only needed for homework or meetings. To add along, it took a long time to create that I had to do far in advance. i find creating a digital planner interesting because instead of carrying my original planner around it will save room and be a daily reminder on what assignments I need to get done. Also, i would like to make it color-coded and creative so I can priorotize which assignments to do first. I will achieve this goal by searching different websites that has a planner template or I can possibly download an app such as "Notes" on my macbook and see if it has a planner feauture!

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Blog Post #10

In this course, it has really broaden my horizon on educational technology. I will plan to use this in my education career by giving students access to technological resources. I will also create lesson plans and interactive games to help different type of students learn more efficiently. More example, students who are more visual-learners will learn better by videos before a lessson then later on teaching the actual lesson to add a project for students who are better at kinetic learning putting the ideas into perspective and relating it back to real-life issues. Specifically, I will use powerpoints, videos, and if able to would even like to have an interactive board or iclickers so the students can be more interactive during practice test or writings.
The past couple of powerpoint projects, I enjoyed completed and have learned a few new skills using microsoft office and google slides. I made a jeopardy template for the first time and it actually was not as hard as what I was thinking. At the end, it end up being successful, useful, and exciting to my eye. I learned how to use the super-link on how to hide the answers and translate to have multiple choice on the different slides. I will defiently take this and use it in my future education career.

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Blog Post #9

 “The Flipped Classroom” is basically the opposite of the typical common structural approach. Instead of teachers teaching their lessons in classrooms and giving out interactive activities/assignments. Some educators take the pre-work or for example a chapter that they assign the students to read and answer questions for before they come into class. This way the student will be prepared to learn the material that has been given to them before the actual lecture.

The "Digital Divide" is the gap between demographics and certain areas that have easy access to technology(cell phones, computers, tablets, etc.) versus those regions that do not including the more rural or urban area. This has an immediate impact on student success in school because students are now limited in their education with a gap on access to technology or not. Some of the causes of the digital divide include lack of access, information, knowledge, and skills. Experiencing this in the classroom would give an impact on the way I would have to teach lessons but I personally would not let that affect the way I teach my children. Instead, I will use resources from books, writing, stories, and try to work on the student as an individual versus a class as a whole.

I enjoyed the Powerpoint project, I find it interesting on creating my own lesson plan draft and recording my own presentation to criticize how exactly I speak and go on how I read things off the slides. This taught me how to screen record my presentation on a MacBook, which I also found it is harder and more steps on a Mac than completing it on Microsoft Office on a PC. I genuinely enjoyed this assignment and the only issue I had was uploading to canvas and simulating a screen record while also recording my audio on a Macbook.

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Blog #8

Assistive and adaptive technologies help people with disabilities perform tasks with greater ease or independence. People with disabilities might use alternate input and output devices to assist them. For example, so who is visually impaired may use certain devices to make the font bigger or even use another sense such as hearing and have an audio device. These technologies can use various devices to help people with certain disabilities by using a different sense. I have seen assistive technologies more use in K-12 school than college in my perspective. I observed that they kept the students in the same class and just gave them accommodations. I liked in our public school system instead of giving them all a certain class to make them feel different than the other students. The challenge I would perceive personally is the pace to work on with this type of technology in the classroom. I understand I would have to go at a different pace for some of these students. But, I would solve that by giving them a desk closer to my table and have individual times to help them understand the material more clearly.
Technology is used everywhere and it helps increase the productivity to accomplish certain goals in the work world. I envision myself using technology in any career field. In the education field, I can definitely use it in the classroom not to only to engage students but to help my organization as an educator with test scores, parent meetings, tutoring, extra curriculum, etc.  Specifically, I can use WebQuest for teacher lesson plans and Microsoft office to create my own documents/powerpoints. For my career field, in Physical Therapy I know Microsoft Excel spreadsheets will be used to organize different medications and appointments for my clientele.
The Webquest project was kind of confusing to me in a sense. It was asking me to purchase to publish and I had a hard time making the website. Here is the link below:

https://education.weebly.com/weebly/main.php#/

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Blog #7

On this week I evaluated my home school district websites and decided to do my blog on my high school, Eustis High School, general school website. On the public school district website, it shows all the public institutions of elementary, middle, and high school. Publically on Eustis High School website, It shows the overviews of goals of the school, administration, faculty(teachers, counselors, staff), programs(organizations), and other miscellaneous information such as academic calendar, parent resources, transportation, grading portal, senior class section, mental health, etc. The high school consists of 9th grade-12th with the different principal for each grade and overall head principal, Mr. Clark.
Blogging has been interesting and helps me go back to what I enjoy doing-writing. Usually, I will read the prompt and analyze what exactly is necessary to write down. After I write a rough draft I type up my final draft every week for the blog. The only con I have is that the prompts can be kind of broad sometimes and I feel I could write more on certain proponents. I learned how to blog and use certain skills on the Microsoft office such as creating charts.
The Web Evaluation was easier than I thought. At first, I came across it with a complex view and did not really fully understand the project until I looked at another draft. With the Web evaluation, I used the draft to do my starting point for an elementary school class and that is what helped me do my project. I am still kind of unsure if I fully understand the Web evaluation but I created the format correctly, it was just what to fill it in with that kind of confused me. For next time, I will review several Web Evaluation drafts involving various grades to compare what all of them have in common. I learned how to make an evaluation with can not only be used in a teaching job but also in my favored career in physical therapy by creating an evaluation for patients or giving them certain diet/ work out plans that I can help with them through the process.


https://ehs.lake.k12.fl.us/administration/principal




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Blog Journal #6

In this week's modules, we are covering academic software tools and web evaluations. Two academic software tools that I am familiar with that I would implement in the classroom is Grammarly and Evernote. Both academic software I did not know about until college but I believe it would have helped me in high school if I knew either or. Grammarly is a software that helps with grammar and citations for essay writing that could be used in various classes such as English or Social Studies. Especially specific Advance Placement (AP) high school courses that are mostly essay-based such as AP Language or AP World History. Evernote is academic software that synchronizes your notes together to keep in an organized sense of creating notes. This is very useful because organized test-taking can help with exams or tests for the subject being learned in class. As a teacher, Evernote could also help me in lesson planning and being organized with staying on top of the academic calendar. On our semester Twitter assignment, I have been doing weekly Tweets and keeping up with educators accounts. The hardest thing for me is knowing what post just because I am too busy looking up information from other resources and do not want to sound redundant.

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Blog Journal #5

The ELA technology that interests me the most was is developing an audio podcast. I believe that will be constructive for this project and I am familiar with not only creating the actual podcast through via iPhone but also constructing it to the knowledge in a classroom. One of the ELA technology that I would like to learn more about and do not have a lot of knowledge is on creating the newsletter. From the assignment last week it made me realize the creativity I can encounter creating news later for an imaginary elementary school class. One of the resources I would use in the ELA technology it the networking web-based and websites to be able to explore different ideas on how to progress in lesson plans for certain subjects. For the News Letter Design, I found out I have more skills in creativity and how exactly I should word certain things to approach different people. For example, dealing with a certain age group be able to use different types of vocabularies depending on age. What I did not like about are the fundamentals that it shares for the design process and the software. The software did not work correctly with certain computers but I was able to use it with another computer. From this assignment, I can acknowledge that I have more word formatting knowledge and possibly use it for an educator position for whenever I need contact with the parents, faculty, staff, or public.

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Blog 4: Open-Education Resources

Open Education Resources are various learning resourced used for Educators that help give them access to sharing ideas and website. The three open education resources that found my interest were scholarship website, lesson builders, and extensive libraries.  At first, I only thought teachers or educators find project ideas, classroom activities, and decorations from Pinterest. So the idea of open education resources really opened my eyes. I found interesting that an open education resource that educators have the view of certain scholarship websites. So, teachers have more insight on various scholarship that can help their students. I know this is problematic in certain school areas especially those that have a higher rate in marginalized students. This resource could help teachers notify students on different financial views after a high school diploma.
Also, the educational resources to lesson builders were fascinating to my bringing. Especially because I thought that the school year was planned out and teachers could only follow a certain curriculum that was going to be tested on the End-of-course exam. But, once I saw this it could help educators have a better understanding of the classes then work on each lesson base on their pace. Finally, the other educational resources that took my interest were extensive libraries. These are other databases for areas such as research, organization, skills, and a website to help gain knowledge. This would be very helpful for educators in all different kind of ways especially for them to follow up with their teachers. The link attached is an open-educator resource blog that has different segments of resources for educators that will give them a list of links to each category they choose:

https://www.oercommons.org

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Twitter

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Here is the link for my Twitter for the EME2040 Online Course:

https://twitter.com

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Blog Journal #3

Blog Journal #3:

I have had previous experience with using Microsoft office using word document, powerpoints, and spreadsheets. I was introduced to Microsoft office in middle school when I took a typing class in 6th grade. I adapted to typing fast and used it on Microsoft Office Word. I know the basics in how to use Microsoft Word and I learned the fundamentals of it in middle school but I have forgotten not using some of the specific skills within the next past few months.
I am familiar with the Copyright and Academic Honesty from Florida State University standpoint and how they look onto the subject. But, I feel even though it is on the syllabus although students overlook it and even ignore it. Along with the professional not emphasizing it for the class.
The three components that stand out that I believe I can propose a solution to is copyright, academic honesty, and cyberbullying.  All of these are expanding in not only the technological field community but also in the academics standpoint. I believe it is important to our community and for us to teach our youth as young as possible so they know the knowledge behind these things.
To start off with, Copyright is a word that is widely used but not entirely understood. Copyright is defined as the exclusive legal right to publish. You can get in huge academic trouble if you copy something on your paper without citing it properly. Learning all the different citations in college was hard just because we were taught different in high school and didn't even have enough information on it at certain schools. Personally, I only remember learning the MLA format for citations in high school. There are several different formats that need to be a requirement for students to know before they receive their ere high school diploma. The biggest solution is proposing that as a requirement in high school to take a technology-based course that informs students on copyright, citations, etc.  Also, giving it as a class for middle school students to expand their resources.
Next, Academic honesty is a concern that Florida State does not take any excuse on. In my own words, Academic honesty is the use of misleading information and/or cheating in a certain class. With that being said the only proposed solution to that is diffcult but just to make sure student gain knowledge on what guidelines it holds and how hard the consequences can be if they were to break it. I believe a great specific solution could be a teacher giving an example of the consequence once someone does not follow the academic honesty so students will have a better understanding. Unfortunately, that can only be classroom-based instead of state-wide expansion.
Finally, Cyberbullying was a huge issue a few years ago, but I believe its declining. Cyberbullying is a form of bullying where someone targets another person in bullying over online websites. I believe we have already proposed solutions in having children take knowledge of the consequences of cyberbullying and why they should NOT take part in it. Even made films such as "Cyberbully" that visually shows how it feels to be bullied over the computer screen. As an american society we have took a good route in informing people on the unfortunate mishappens of cyberbullying, the only other solution I give is informing children at a young age so they know how important that any form is bullying is unacceptable.
To conclude, Copyright , Academic, and Cyberbullying are all three components that have possible solutions. It just take over time to fluctuate the statistics in a sense.

Greetings my name is Courtney Rolle and I am a junior at Florida State University. I am majoring in Psychology with a minor in Education on the Pre-health track with career aspirations in becoming a pediatric physical therapist. I currently enjoy my free time working with children and volunteering in the Leon County community. I have experience with Microsoft office and other mainstream technology experience but this is my first time using a blog. I hope to learn different aspects on how to create an interesting blog and tie it back to gaining my educational knowledge.