7- Nathalia's Adventures

Using Bloomer's taxonomy would be extremely efficient for helping students fully understand a concept. This is due that the criteria that Bloomer capitalized on (understanding, remembering, applying, analysing, evaluating, and creating) are essential for student learning. By using a Power Point that requires students to meet all of these bases, I will be ensuring that my students fully understand the content. I will explore criteria such as criteria by encouraging students to use animation. Students will be taking the content that they have learned and presenting it in their own way through avid use of imagery. By doing this, they are taking in the information and producing -- creating -- their own content.
In regards to how I will keep an eye out for things such as their evaluation of the content, I will provide my students with overarching questions that will require them to condense and present the information in an efficient manner.

I feel that adaptive technologies play a major role in helping students with both physical and mental disabilities to learn in a classroom students along with their able-bodied peers. One of the adaptive technologies that I thought was pretty neat was the verbal spell checker due to the fact that it reads out the misspelled word to the student to bring attention to the error. Afterwards, an array of words that the student could have been attempting to spell is presented to the students. I feel that this is especially important for students with attention deficit disorders, and this can be essential in helping them learn. I also believe that reading guides would be helpful for these students as well. In regards to students at have issues with auditory process issues, I can use FM listening systems (which I have never heard of until recently), which limits background noises and amplifies the teacher's voice. I have not used any of the adaptive technologies that I have listed, but I have used reading guides (which is an online tool that highlights lines of texts as students read) to help keep me focused due to the fact that I had ADHD. A challenge that I percieve with using adaptive technologies is that neurotypical and able-bodied students will become jealous of students with disabilities for recieving what they would consider "special treatment."

Working on the web page design assignment gave me a general idea of how websites are organized. This is a useful tool for me due to the fact that I will soon be making several professional sites about myself in order to promote myself as a teacher. Even as a teacher, I will constantly be making websites detailing assignments, announcements, and events for my students, so there really is no escaping it for me! So I really did appreciate this assignment because it gave me a chance to get my feet wet, so to speak. The only thing I didn't like is how the website lagged a bit the first day we were all working on it in class, but because so many people were using it at once it couldn't have been avoided.

http://nathaliaedwards2019.weebly.com/

How to be a PowerPoint ninja

This PowerPoint is a prime example of what all PowerPoint should be. Despite how it has 54 slides, it was perfectly paced and very quick/easy to get through. This highlights all the key elements one should consider when incorporating animation into a PowerPoint. Some of the things capitalized are: do not use excessive amounts of text, pace the flow of information with animation, do Not use overlap, make use of smooth end animations, etc.

How To Be a PowerPoint Animation Ninja from BrightCarbon

6 - Lots of analyzation

The format of Mrs. McDavid's website is perfectly suitable for the age range of her students. Given how she is teaching a third grade class, her use of vivid colour, fun animations, and large, easy-to-find links makes the website aesthetically pleasing to younger students while making it easy for them to navigate. As I've stated multiple times before, I feel that it is especially important to keep younger students visually entertained as it will prevent them from being distracted or becoming bored. As you can see below, the website is jampacked with vivid colour and a fun font that will hold the attention of students. The website also links to Mrs. McDavid's professional blog, which can be handy for parents that would like to get in touch with her. The only issue that I have with the site is that some of the links do not work. For example, the "tour of our classroom" link leads to a 404 not found page. However, the links that do work lead to pages with fun designs, such as the "supply list" link.

As an instructor I definitely intend to make use of productivity tools. For example, I plan on taking advantage of resources that will aid me in keeping record of information on my students. I have full intention of using Microsoft Office Suite due to the fact that it's spreadsheets can prove sufficiently useful in organizing my information. I also intend to use Diigo as a bookmarking tool. Diigo will prove especially useful due to the fact that I can bookmark websites with specific notes and make annotations onto the websites themselves.

The web resource evaluation forced me to take a closer look at websites and question their authenticity. Before this assignment, I never really took the time to question whether the information being presented to me came from an established organization, or if all of the links were fully functioning and lead to where they were supposed to. I feel like this assignment was extremely helpful for me because it provided me with an extra sense of caution with websites. This will be a necessary trait for me to have when I am having my future students participate in web hunts. What I didn't enjoy about the wiki was the fact that multiple people couldn't work on it simultaneously. This became tedious after a bit because, every time I wanted to add or edit something, I felt inclined to copy all of the text (so I don't lose my work) and refresh the page to see if anyone else made an addition to the paper.

This is my evaluation, where I evaluated this website.

4 - Online games and horrible math teachers

• SC.4.L.17.4 (The Big idea is interdependence. This focuses on the interaction between plants, animals, and humans interact. This also delves into how we depend on one another and our environment. Human impacts on the environment are included as well as how energy flows from the sun, to producers, to consumers)
• Concept-mapping
• The use of concept-maps are especially useful for the material included within this standard. The transfer of energy throughout all parts of the ecosystem can easily be tranlated into a concept-map with sites such as inspiration.com.
• I also intend to use educational games as well. An example of a game I would use for this standard specifically is http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/content/animals/kidscorner/games/producersconsumersgame.swf. Similar games can be found here.

I feel that using the internet to support student research is essential. This is especially the case with younger students, who are in need of more visual and interactive material in order to retain information in class. Through online tools such as interactive online games, the process of reinforcing information learned in the classroom can migrate from being a chore to an activity that could potentially be deemed fun. Due to the fact that I intend on teaching fourth grade students, it would be a major concern of mine to ensure that the course material is, at the very least, reinforced through online research tools. Because of the age group of my future students, some methods of online research will not be useful. For example, simply providing my students with a sheet of paper with a list of questions and telling them to look up various text-heavy websites in order to gather information will be highly ineffective. I feel that internet research is most effective with younger students when the webpages are highly interactive or collaborative. Otherwise, in my opinion, it would be a waste of time.

Open education has directly impacted how I have searched for internet-based resources in the past. I distinctly remember having a terrible math teacher my junior year of high school, and more often than not I would find myself being next to clueless the weekend before the tests. If it were not for open education, I would not have been able to search for videos of teachers teaching calculus on youtube. This has been essential to me for a good part of a year, and I'm sure it has benefitted tons of other people too.

During the web hunt I became better-able to narrow my search with specific keywords. The search tools I became most comfortable with are quotation marks, the minus symbol, and the word 'and'.

My webhunt:

Search for an online game that can effectively reinforce a subject (your choosing) for your students in a fun and engaging way.

Search for a software that will enable students to collaborate and form a short movie or animation that teaches a concept.