Intro to Education Tech

Adaptive technologies are types of technology that aid students who have disabilities to perform the same tasks as students without disabilities. It makes learning in the classroom much easier for them. Examples of adaptive technology are text-to-speech software that allows the screen to be read aloud for students who cannot see. There is also voice recognition typing that allows a student to speak and the computer will translate their speech into text. I have never personally seen adaptive technologies in use but I have heard of people using them before such as when taking notes in class. There may be a learning curve that is associated with some of the technologies. It also may be difficult, depending on the severity of the disability, for the student to effectively use these technologies if they cannot have constant teacher assistance. PowerPoint is a very effective tool that can be used to help students learn at each level of Bloom’s Taxonomy. When teaching a new lesson, Power...

My Twitter experience has been good so far. I have interacted with few teachers and viewed their postings about how they have used technology in their classroom. I have learned that there are many different ways to incorporate technology into lessons in fun and creative ways. There are a bunch of different kinds of technology that are useful that may not seem too high tech but are used frequently. Projectors is one type, but then they also incorporate that with the Smart Boards and allow students to interact with what they are learning. The benefits of twitter are that we can see how teachers and educators incorporate technology and get ideas for our own classrooms. I have not had any issues with Twitter. https://mikayrickard.wixsite.com/mysite-1 Designing the webpage was not as hard as I thought it would be thanks to the useful technology of Wix.com. They had great templates and you just fill in the blanks with your own text, make new text boxes, add your own pictures, and ...

This tutorial was completed on Sunday, October 22nd. This video is “Introduction to Songwriting” which is a short video guide to the basics of songwriting. The author of this video, Cliff Goldmacher, also introduces not only the fundamental skills that are needed when writing a song but also the business aspects that come along when wanting to publish and copyright a song. He also talks about the types of jobs that you can have as a songwriter, either writing for record labels, being your own singer/songwriter, or picking out different songs for TV shows and movies. This information was displayed through a video of a PowerPoint-like presentation with audio of Goldmacher explaining the information and going into further detail. I thought that this video was very informative and showed me the more professional and business side of this profession. I used to think that songwriting was just about sitting down and playing some chords and writing some lyrics but it is...