EME BLOG

 I believe that Teacher pages on a website are extremely helpful and beneficial, when used and updated properly. Teacher pages are not as common in the higher levels of learning from all that I have been able find. Typically you see teacher pages for students who are solely in one classroom with one teacher only. After looking through some school websites, with teacher pages I see a lot in common. Typically you will find a description of who the teacher is and little about themselves. They can include where they graduated from, what degree they earned, why they are interested in teaching, some fun facts about them. By doing this, this allows more of a connection and feel for the teacher when you may know nothing about them first hand. On the teachers pages you can usually find a class schedule, homework and assignments, learning objectives, etc. Now that classes are almost all virtual now, we can also notice teachers have places for homework turn ins, questions, zoom office hours, ...

 Going into EME I had no idea what Diigo was. After having to do a few assignments with it, causing me to navigate it and bookmark on it I can see why many teachers and classrooms choose to use it. Diigo allows me to see what others in my group have bookmarked. When they bookmark it allows me to go to the direct article or website they are looking at without me having to go search it up myself. This is a great tool when a class may all being looking into research or websites and we can all share ideas to help when one may be stuck. However, I have to be honest in the fact it seems a little too confusing for my liking. I am more simple when it comes to sharing whether that just be a huge group discussion post where everyone posts their website or in class. However I can see how diigo not only allows bookmarking but also notes that can help even more.  Blogging as well, was never something I saw myself doing..let alone in a class setting. Whenever I thought about blogging I was ...

 In all honesty, Twitter is not something I use day to day or am hundred percent familiar and comfortable using. Twitter was introduced to me when I was in high school. Everyone had twitter accounts before me and I was late to the party. It wasn't until everyone was talking about all the funny memes posted on twitter that I could not be part of until the memes were shown on Instagram. That was when I decided to get twitter. Then and now I never really used it all that much because I would just scroll through for entertainment and eventually I forgot about it. However I do believe that Twitter can be beneficial to those who use it. Through this course alone I have found out more and more about the benefits and uses for twitter. Whether thats staying updated on current news or joining twitter chats for education, to be even staying in touch and involved in your community and society in general. Twitter may be influential to me in my future career because as technology advances not on...

 ELA stands for English Language Arts. I fall victim in being one of those people who thought these standards were solely for reading, writing, grammar, spelling, etc. Now after learning more about them it has come to my attention that these standards expand beyond what I use to think. The ELA Standards actually incorporate technology! Crazy at first to think but yet so obvious. As technology is growing and expanding our use of them for listening, speaking, writing on them also expands. Because of the more demanding needs of technology use the more the standards have changed to involve technology. An example is the standards for Grade 1. LAFS.1.SL.1.2. is a standard for grade 1 students to be able to use technology to listen to a reading via cd, computer, audiobooks, etc and be able to recite back the main points, arguments, or what they learned from listening to the person speak through the technology source. I personally feel prepared in using and applying this standard to my fut...

 Copy Right and Fair Use..What and why does this matter? Copy Right is the using of material not belonging or created by you. Copy Right basically protects the "creators'" work. For example you can create a website, write a book, create a movie, paint a painting and if its your own original work it belongs to you, and you have the right to get a Copy Right to make sure no one can use your creation/ work without your permission or without pay. However there is Fair use. Not everything out there on the world wide web is an original. Do you ever go through instagram, youtube, tik tok, etc and see clips of someones video within a video? Or have you ever seen Vincent Van Gough'[s starry night painting within another piece of art work but ever so slightly different and serving as a different purpose? This is fair use. Fair Use means you are able to take a part but NOT ALL of a piece of work, rework it to be unique and different then before. Copy Right you HAVE to get permis...

 I cannot remember the last time I did not have a writing assignment where I had to use Microsoft Word. Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel, etc. was introduced to me in "Computer Class" when I was in elementary school, that being almost 9 years ago. In Computer class we were taught how to navigate through each application and had to do assignments to show how we used what we learned on the application. This followed me through middle school, high school, and now college. Although my learning about how to navigate through and use Microsoft ended after middle school, the knowledge I gained from these classes show through every assignment I have done in each.  My main choice of application is Microsoft Word. Because of how I have grown up using and learning about how to use it, it is what I am most comfortable using. ISTE Standards for Educators is something unfamiliar with me until now. I believe as someone, like many others, who has pretty much grown up using technology as a wa...

Hi,  my name is Caroline Poole and I am a current sophomore in college. I am studying Public health, as of right now, in hopes of going Pre-Med. I have always wanted to be a Sports Medicine Physician because I am very passionate about sports and working out, as well as helping others medically because I was raised with two parents in the medical field. However I see a small problem with this dream of mine...that being my biggest fear is needles. I am keeping my options and mind open to see what could potentially interest me as a future career but whatever that may be I hope it involves helping others in some form or fashion. I have pretty much grown up always using some form of technology in my education and schooling. I use to use computers at school to take Accelerated Reading tests, I eventually had computer classes where they taught you how to use Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel(the one I never could understand) and I would use those to create presentations and papers for cla...