Blog Journal 8

I've never used Diigo before but now that I've learned about it in class I do enjoy it a lot! One thing I learned in Diigo is that it can highlight and make little notes on whichever website I choose. This way I can go back and read only what I highlighted that was important. This can be useful in the classroom with team members because each member of the team can highlight and leave notes on a specific section of the website where they can give their opinion as well. This can help in my individual professional effort by if I'm un sure of something before hand I can make little notes on the website to help remind me of certain things.
Bloom's taxonomy is a set of hierarchal models used to classify educational learning objectives into different levels of specificity and complexity. I can use this in Powerpoint which is a tool that can be used by anyone. For example if there is a presentation about different types of flowers I could use powerpoint to create my work. This would also allow me to remember the information and apply the basic understanding to myself and others.
Teacher professional development and technology go together like peanut butter and jelly. The world as it is a technology growing world so there is no doubt that technology would be used in education. One website that I found was Ed Tech Magazine it focuses on educational technology to improve teaching and learning processes.

ILP #2 Personal Learning Network

For my ILP #2 assignment I chose Class Dojo. I was able to join the community as a potential teacher with Florida State University. I learned that not only I can join the community that I'm involved with on campus but I can also join other communities with different teachers as well as in different languages. This can be beneficial to share ideas, tips, learning material, and ask for advice etc. You can even have your students in class join Class Dojo where you can keep track in the point system for certain things they do. This is the Voice thread I made about it, please do check it out!

Voicethread Link ILP#2

Blog Journal 7

My experience with Twitter so far has been fun and educational. I've learned how to use Twitter by retweeting other's tweets, finding people and resources on Twitter and replying back the others. It's a great way to interact with others not only from our class but people and institutions everywhere. You learn and read a lot of different information based off the profiles you add as well. So far, I've experienced no issues with Twitter. thus far. Whenever I log in from any device it goes through easily and nothing crashes. The only problem on my end is that sometimes I forget to log in to post or check my tweets. Maybe, because I'm not used to checking it regularly like my Instagram or email.

From using Weebly to work on the web design assignment, it was a new experience. I never used the website before but I found it very easy to interact and find things. The website's layout itself wasn't hard to figure out, I learned how to insert the hyperlink, add a background, and photos. I would recommend using Weebly as well especially for beginners, I believe it is very beginner friendly for all to use coming from myself where I'm not the best at designing things like a website.

Shania Maharaj's Website

Assistive technology with learning disabilities is any piece of equipment or systems that helps compensate and work around for an person's special learning needs. Assistive technology can help with sense of independence and not depending on others. Adaptive technology is a system or objects that are specially designed for the motive of maintaining and increasing the capabilities of people who has special needs or learning disabilities.  One of my friend uses hearing aids because of audio impairment. This helps her hear clearly and be able to go about her day without having trouble hearing the things around her or others. These technologies being used in classrooms will help the students a lot. For example if the student is a non native english speaker or students with disabilities who require more time on the computer etc.