Blog 7

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 move everything around to adjust to where you want it to go. It was time consuming trying to get everything in place and having all the pages link up correctly, but otherwise it wasn’t too bad of an assignment. I think next time I could add more detail and more information to make it seem even more realistic. I think this can be used in my career to build my own class website that parents can easily access if they have questions about anything. I like the idea of having links to fun, educational games the kids can play.


Diigo has shown me how to better pick out the important information and better improve my annotation skills. In classes with older students, this technology can be useful if they have any research projects they need to write or if they need to do any research for a group project. They can easily share information they find with each other and explain the useful information with their annotations. Also colleagues can share useful information among each other such as new technology or teaching tips or great lesson plan websites.

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