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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