Karla Urbina

My project would be using this very website to communicate amongst my students and their parents. I strongly believe Blogger can be something I will use for students just because it gives them a safe enviornement to express any thoughts, feelings or questions. It would go like this. I would asign a certain blog or topic - the student then researchers about it or talks about it - in class we discuss if anyone wants to discuss with Blogger I can also use this to implement certain dates or important news for the parents to see. I do not think cyber bullying would occur from this because Ill try to keep it a very safe place!

I will use excel sheets as a teacher to organize my students, to place their grades, to enter their test scores and possibly more. I will use surveys probably more as a way to communicate to them and not so much on the assignments side? I would not use surveys just because I will be a teacher for the blind and they can not see the surveys. If I were to use them then I think it will be as a way to get to know my students and type it up in braille for them! then they just tell me what they like individually! One thing i found most interesting is that a lot of my classmates really loved Diigo and Twitter and can see themselves using it in the future for education. I personally loved these two applications and websites because they made it very much easy to contact people, to also look up a valuable source and mark it up. The next technology related skill I would like to learn next is basic IT if not coding. I think it is important because coding can help me with my computers and an over...

The flipped classroom is a classroom that has its teacher send out lecture videos for homework and so time spent in the classroom is open for discussion and active learning of the lecture. Going further in depth and having the students in multiple discussion to capture their true knowledge of what was discussed in the video that was sent home for homework. Which is honestly something that happens in college, I actually like it and it gives me the space and time to talk to my professor and actually learn what was being taught beforehand... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzMFdDT6FSA  https://library.educause.edu/topics/teaching-and-learning/open-educational-resources-oer Open education is about making it open to audience. Open content, means the teacher is doing his or her job in ensuring that they get their material through anyway of means as long as it is teachable. Working with power point was a lot of fun and I really enjoyed learning how to make power points interactive...

Adaptive technologies do not seclude students from using computers but rather make it easier for them to use it. Something that'll help them. All from braille use to organizers and overall just make computing easier for students, making the matter easier to all students. Braille keyboards would be perfect to have in any and if in all schools because there are students who are legally blind! I have never had to use adaptive technologies for school, not any that I can think of off the top of my head at least. I have seen some applications been used at my internship where the teacher gives a laptop to some students and also headphones because they have ADD and the headphones help them focus on the material better. To insure that I try and get all my students no matter  what I would utilize power points many tools to explain the Bloom's Taxonomy. First I would start with having the power point be interactive, therefore the students HAVE to listen because it will not move to the s...

Finding a website for this blog was not hard because I intern at a elementary school. The website is Florida State University Schools. This website is extremely detailed because it basically is a elementary, middle, and high school. With that, there were so many pages open to the public and even had merchandise to buy from the high school. Since I interned with elementary I ended up looking at their website and it was very useful, they had tabs that allowed me to find the teachers in every certain grade, subject and building. There is a login tab but without that you have a various amount of access. I envision myself using technology a lot actually when I become a teacher. How could I not? The world is becoming more tech savvy and who am I to not learn about this and not educate my students with it. I feel like we as future educators have a purpose to teach our students everything and everything to become a good civilian and someone that can maintain with the century. I would lov...

Web 2.0 tools being banned due to ELA standards is a tad absurd. I would definitely use the website Blogger, with my students. This would be such a fun and interactive way to communicate and also assign prompts for my students to go on and write about. Tools of this certain function I believe are useful. Certain tools like Flickr, I do not really find any reason for it because there are ways you can upload pictures and make it interactive. These online websites like Myspace and Flickr I really do not think they are very much Useful. Blogger is a website based off of google where you can write about anything and upload it to the web. This freedom can bring a lot of creativity to a classroom and in a way comfort because this would be my students own personal thoughts being expressed. Give them being so fluent and comfortable in class, that really doesn’t happen because of pressure but online a shy student can compete and be on the same terms of a extroverted student in campus. Therefore...