Abbie's Blog

I have enjoyed using Diigo so far. It was hard to get used to at first, but the more I use it the more I understand how it works and how to navigate it. It is unlike any other website I have used for a class, so it is good that I am branching out and learning more. I do not like how it was hard to use at first, I feel like the layout of the website could be clearer and easier to navigate. But besides that I like it.  Blogging has been fun honestly. I like to write, so I would rather write 10 blog posts instead of a test any day. I also really like how we are able to read our classmates blogs and interact with them. I really enjoy reading what other people have to say and how they tackled the questions asked in the prompts.  I think I will definitely want to use YouTube when I become a teacher. Youtube is a great resource that has a lot of educational videos. It is a easy way to convey information to a classroom, especially since some students learn better when they hear it from someone

My early experiences using twitter before this class has been strictly for entertainment purposes. I never really interacted with anyone on this app; followers and likes were not a big deal to me. I was there just to look at news and funny videos. But since starting this class, I have started interacting with people way more than on my personal account. Twitter, when used for educational purposes, helps to create a community in which people can come together and talk about their profession and things they have learned that they want to teach others. This is definitely a tool I will be using in the future when I have a classroom of my own. It will help me be able to learn new things from people who have been teaching longer than I have.  The digital divide is a term that is very relevant in education today and will continue to be once I become a full time teacher. This term refers to the disparity amongst students who have access to technology and students who either do not as much or d

One of the ELA standards for eleventh and twelfth graders is that as a teacher I am expected to incorporate the strategic use of digital media in presentations to engage the students. I feel like I am prepared to implement this based on my current skill set because I am expected to do this same thing in a lot of my courses. I have been using things like powerpoint and Google Slides for years now to give presentations, and my favorite part about making these presentations was always adding media and making it exciting for those listening, which is what this ELA standard is asking of us teachers.  When on CPALMS website I found a lot of resources for teachers teaching highschool students, especially for English Language Arts. There are over 1,000 lesson plans and visuals that teachers can use when teaching their students. If I was teaching currently, this would be a great resource for me to use and implement in my teaching. I would definitely be taking advantage of this resource. Interne