Ashley EME Blog

I will mostly use excel to keep track of grades and other areas of academic performance. I also believe that because I want to teach a younger grade, such as 2nd, I will use surveys to help collect data from parents. An example of this can be a survey done at the beginning of the year to collect information on the parents. I can also have the students fill out the survey in class to teach them about mean, median and mode. This would allow me to create an entire lessons on these topics that keeps the kids involved and interested in it.  The topics that I found most interesting from reviewing my classmates' blogs were how they plan on using Twitter in the classroom or in their professional career. I really did not think about using Twitter for professional reason. It was awesome to see how it can be used in so many different ways.  I personally would love to learn how to create a video of many different little video clips, like a recap video. I think this would be gre...

Adaptive technologies are technologies that are used by students who have disabilities. This can include disabilities that are physical, such as blindness or deafness. It also includes those who may have autism, down syndrome or other mental disabilities. They are built so that any student can interact in the classroom without their disabilities stopping them. I personally have never worked with students that have used adaptive technology in the classroom. The challenges I see in using adaptive technology is the student feeling different because they aren't using what the other students are using, or finding the resources to pay for these adaptive technologies. I would use powerpoint to help a student learn Bloom's Taxonomy by creating a slide for each different category. Then, I would include a video at the end that would summarize it all. A website I would use to stay on top of technological trends is  https://campustechnology.com/Home.aspx . This website is a network tha...

Through Twitter, I have learned that information travels rapidly and travels everywhere. I have also learned that you have to be very careful when using social apps with your students. Twitter is one of those social apps that does not have much security and therefore, anything can happen on there. It ideally would not be used with younger kids. The main issue I have found with Twitter is that it is not meant for educational purposes, so there can be a lot of distracting things on it. While working on the web page design, I found myself learning ALOT. I have never used weebly before so it was a bit tricky but became easier as I got used to it! This website would be extremely helpful when communicating with parents if I was a teacher, but also can be useful as a college student when given creative assignments. I did not like how it kept freezing on my and kept closing out when I was trying to work on it, though. Next time, I think I can incorporate the graphics better and make it a bit...

I had a bit of trouble trying to find classroom pages because I feel like most classroom's just hand out newsletters for each class or send out emails. Here is one of the websites I found: https://sites.google.com/a/abschools.org/gateskokkinos/class-information .  This is for a second grade classroom. On this website I found different curriculum sites and other classroom information. These links have what the class is learning, as well as other websites parents can use for supplementary material. It has the classroom rules as well as the list of Specials the classroom has and what day they have them, for example this classroom visits P.E. on Monday's, music on Wednesday's and visits the Library on Thursday's. It was a cute, simple website that was easy to navigate! I envision myself using technology a lot. I can see myself using it the most for a grade book as well as attendance. I can also see myself using it to communicate with parents and other teachers. The ...

For my first ILP, I chose to do an infographic on classroom rules. For this, I used Canva. This would ideally be laminated and displayed in a central area so that the entire classroom may view it. I chose these colors because they are bright and decided to add cute, little clip art that adds a childlike appeal to it. The rules are simple and sweet which make it easy for kids to understand.

I think that Blogs and Wikis are the most useful in the classroom setting because they seem to be the most professional and allow students to interact with one another in the safest manner. Both of these can be easily monitored and edited by the school teacher. I think that Twitter is the one that is the least useful. Although students can use this to follow researchers, scientists and other famous figures; there are a lot of non professional people on Twitter as well. It is one of the harder tools to monitor and this site also can be a platform for cyberbullying. I was not in class on Monday due to illness so I am not sure of what Web 2.0 tools were discussed but I found this one online. This is Story Bird ( http://storybird.com/ ). This site is used to tell fun, interesting stories in a virtual sense. You can also include artwork. I liked this website because I thought it would be a good activity to complete in a Mad Lib's sense where the class fills in the blanks to then create...