For this blog, I want to discuss my experiences with Twitter, my website design project, and assistive and adaptive technology.
I have had a Twitter since I was probably 14 years old, but I deleted it a little over a year ago because I was spending too much time on it. However, it has been really interesting to approach Twitter from more of an educational perspective, instead of simply using it for entertainment purposes. So far, I have had a very good experience with using Twitter for my EME2040 class. I have learned that Twitter can be very useful in the classroom. It has been a very convenient way for me to receive announcements from the College of Education and the fsu2040 page. It has also been a really neat and convenient way to interact with other students in the EME2040 course. One thing that I really liked was the challenge posted by the fsu2040 page. It was just a fun, interactive way to participate in class and connect with other students.
Assignment 3 for my EME2040 class was to design a website for a fictional class. This was very useful, as many schools require students to have a class website. I learned how flexible creating a website can be, as it allows you to add whatever information or media that you want, in whatever creative way that you want to add it. I also learned truly how useful it can be to have a website where students can easily and conveniently access important class announcements, a class calendar, as well as useful resources for the class. This can all be implemented in my future career, as I plan on teaching ESL. Also, I noticed that there is an easy add-on that allows visitors of the website to schedule appointments and such. This could also be useful for my future career, if I decide to work independently, apart from a school district or university. However, it would be somewhat of a hassle keeping up with it, as opposed to just sending a class announcements through email or Canvas. The one thing I would do differently if I were to do this project again would be to make the calendar a bit cleaner and easier to navigate, but I am still happy with the way everything turned out!
Here is my website!
https://sizemorec12.wixsite.com/eme2040
Last, I want to discuss assistive and adaptive technologies. These technologies are very useful for education, and truly just useful for life altogether. They allow for students to complete tasks and have opportunities that they wouldn't have otherwise. There are many assistive and adaptive technologies out there, ranging from hearing aids to wheelchairs to text-to-speech software to sip-and-puff software. I had a friend in high school that had to use special proofreading software because of her dyslexia. According to her, this was very useful in completing assignments and such. Assistive technologies would obviously be very useful in the classroom, as they help better student learning. However, I'm sure that adaptive technologies could present some challenges. For example, someone with a wheelchair may not be able to participate in an activity or class trip due to their physical disability and all that accompanies it.
I have had a Twitter since I was probably 14 years old, but I deleted it a little over a year ago because I was spending too much time on it. However, it has been really interesting to approach Twitter from more of an educational perspective, instead of simply using it for entertainment purposes. So far, I have had a very good experience with using Twitter for my EME2040 class. I have learned that Twitter can be very useful in the classroom. It has been a very convenient way for me to receive announcements from the College of Education and the fsu2040 page. It has also been a really neat and convenient way to interact with other students in the EME2040 course. One thing that I really liked was the challenge posted by the fsu2040 page. It was just a fun, interactive way to participate in class and connect with other students.
Assignment 3 for my EME2040 class was to design a website for a fictional class. This was very useful, as many schools require students to have a class website. I learned how flexible creating a website can be, as it allows you to add whatever information or media that you want, in whatever creative way that you want to add it. I also learned truly how useful it can be to have a website where students can easily and conveniently access important class announcements, a class calendar, as well as useful resources for the class. This can all be implemented in my future career, as I plan on teaching ESL. Also, I noticed that there is an easy add-on that allows visitors of the website to schedule appointments and such. This could also be useful for my future career, if I decide to work independently, apart from a school district or university. However, it would be somewhat of a hassle keeping up with it, as opposed to just sending a class announcements through email or Canvas. The one thing I would do differently if I were to do this project again would be to make the calendar a bit cleaner and easier to navigate, but I am still happy with the way everything turned out!
Here is my website!
https://sizemorec12.wixsite.com/eme2040
Last, I want to discuss assistive and adaptive technologies. These technologies are very useful for education, and truly just useful for life altogether. They allow for students to complete tasks and have opportunities that they wouldn't have otherwise. There are many assistive and adaptive technologies out there, ranging from hearing aids to wheelchairs to text-to-speech software to sip-and-puff software. I had a friend in high school that had to use special proofreading software because of her dyslexia. According to her, this was very useful in completing assignments and such. Assistive technologies would obviously be very useful in the classroom, as they help better student learning. However, I'm sure that adaptive technologies could present some challenges. For example, someone with a wheelchair may not be able to participate in an activity or class trip due to their physical disability and all that accompanies it.
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