Amanda's Adventures of EME 2040

I don't normally see public schools that have teacher resources out publicly. When teachers post inside of websites such as canvas where it is more catered to you, then they post resources. If there is something public, it would just give the basic information about how to contact the person. An example of this is the website for my mom's school. When you open up the faculty page it just provides teachers emails. However, there is a section for different grade levels, and it explains what they will learn by the time they graduate from that grade and what tools they incorporate. This is the website I used: http://www.cks-school.org/academics/ec4.cfm I can definitely use technology to help my students out. I feel that computer labs would be very beneficial for students to have so they can learn how to type. In my computer class, we had covers for the keys so we could try to memorize where the keys were. On top of that, we had a mini quiz/ fun activity to see how fast...

https://voicethread.com/share/12188301/ I apologize in advance for the awkward pauses (maintenance came in). I talked about emotional intelligence and how we can better react to situations using the ABCDE model. People think that reactions are caused by events when in reality, it is from past thoughts or behaviors. (ex. you might want to yell at someone for cutting you off in traffic, and you are not necessarily mad about this time that a person cut you off but mad about another time when you were running late to work and someone cut you off,) I also talked about how corporations are using virtual reality to work on emotional intelligence and connect people from the same business but on different parts of the world.

I think that Diigo is a great website to use! I love that it makes it easier for people to see what articles are about and how east people can access it. The feature of highlighting sentences that you can find online is also a really helpful feature for me because it can help me organize my thoughts. I like that I can also make sticky notes. I could definitely see myself using this as a teacher, but I don’t think I would use it with a group of people. I personally like using a blog instead of discussion board. As silly as this may sound I like being able to make my background look really visually appealing. I’m not a big fan that it is very centered around me, but I like how easy it’s been able to use. I really learned how organized everything is and that I have control of it. I think that I would use wordle as my Web 2.0 tool. I love how people can just add whatever comes to their mind. It is always so interesting to see what words the students will have in common. It can also hel...

With Twitter, I started out re-tweeting funny posts. The more I used it the more I was familiar in using it. I then started to realize how helpful some articles were. The first time I made a twitter account for a class I realized how beneficial this could be to my future career as an educator. If I keep my educator account, I can follow other more experienced teachers and take from the articles or the tweets that they retweet. Technology is being made to help people save time and make the world more accessible. It is super helpful to be connected with the world around you so you can do something as simple as shop when there are no stores nearby, to starting a company website and getting your name out to investors. I think that having access to the internet is helpful for students to become more aware of the world around them. I think that people who use technology have an easier time accustoming to society. Businesses usually look for people who are familiar with techno...

The internet is so extensive that it is difficult to know every source that would be useful to us as future teachers. I really like the ELA standard "LAFS.K.W.2.6 With guidance and support from adults, explore a variety of digital tools to produce and publish writing, including in combination with peers." This is for kindergarten standards. I will use this because I want to teach kindergarten. The technology associated with this is smartboard and digital learning. I really like smartboard because I have been using Smartboard since I was in middle school. Our teachers would teach us how to effectively use it and I would play with the smartboard until it was time for class. I would deliberately show up to school early to play with it. I am not very knowledgeable about StoryJumper which is also used for technology for kindergarteners. StoryJumper seems like a really good website for me to use. The CPALMS is really good to get ideas of how to teach children from people who have...