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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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.