EME2040 Class Blog

            I've enjoyed my experience in EME2040, at least for the most part. I'm in an online section, which, while sometimes ironically difficult to keep up with, I think worked better for me than an in person section would. The course hasn't really taught me all too much, however it's at least more practice for skills that I already know, and more specifically, applying those skills in a way that I might use in a classroom. In terms of classroom experience, we didn't really have one, as it was online, however one thing that I want to do with classroom experience is have something like a "brag wall" (probably not named that way) where students can post their scholastic or personal achievements. I think it's a lot nicer for mentality to have some form of recognition or place to show off, even if it's just a spot on a classroom wall.         I think Open Education Resources or OERs are great for supplemental material for stude...

      Honestly, there wasn't all that much that I had learned from this assignment. I have created websites using drag-and-drop systems like this in the past for various different reasons, so utilizing a different system didn't really teach me much other than this particular system's quirks. Also, I have a basic fluency in HTML, so if I wanted to build my own website, I could just code it, which would give me a much greater deal of control over the site itself. Additionally, most school systems seem to have their own system that teachers/classes have 'sites' on, my school system used Blackboard. I say this because that practically means that I won't actually have much of a reason to design my own website as a teacher, it would be redundant in nature. Here's the   link .     Well, to be honest, there isn't really much I can say about Diigo because all of the portfolio items that I skipped were the ones that involved Diigo. As such, I don't really have...

          So I'm going to keep it absolutely 100 with you - I despise using twitter. This is mainly because of my personal twitter, but twitter as a platform annoys me. Even within the sphere of education, it's mainly a cesspool of people all believing that they're right and you're wrong. I remember my professor last semester had a common habit of showing us terrible twitter takes before class - this is all of twitter. Every teacher thinks they're an angel who runs the best classroom that has absolutely zero issues and if you don't do what they say to do then you're a terrible teacher who's ruining lives... yeah, I don't like twitter.          I think digital divide is a difficult thing to solve in classrooms - particularly because schools don't receive a lot of funding for extra things like computers. Ideally, with America heading towards a more STEM-focused education, the government will be more likely to aid in providing electronics f...

       I'll be honest - I was surprised just how much 8th graders are expected to know, technology wise.  Recollecting, I also don't believe I've ever had a teacher teach me how to do anything tech related, we were just expected to know how to do it or get our parents to help us. In terms of the precise standards, I feel like it's fairly accurate, though I will say I'm not sure how well 8th graders would be able to properly "mind-map", regardless of their understanding of the tech behind that. I do believe I could properly teach any of these tech concepts; the concepts are fairly straightforward.      One of the standards that I found that I saw implemented in my own high school was the music standard, "Record your way to better sight reading." To be frank - my orchestra was terrible at sight reading, so, since it's an important skill for a musician to have, and because it was on our MPAs, we often practiced it. Our director would record us w...

      Copyright and Fair Use are inherently 'simple' concepts - copyright is simply the concept of owning an idea or intellectual property, as it's usually referred to as. Fair Use is the concept that intellectual property should be allowed to be innovated and expanded upon by other people without infringing upon the copyright. As a teacher, I feel as though it isn't too difficult to avoid copyright infringement - the only thing that you should really be 'copying' verbatim is a textbook or similar resource, which you would be paying to use in that fashion anyway. As long as you cite the source as where you are receiving your information, and don't pirate the book, it should constitute fair use.     Technology Implementation Issues are an interesting idea - it's something that my Intro to Education class discussed last semester. In terms of academic dishonesty, there's not really much that you can do to solve this issue, dependent on where the technol...

      My experience using Word as a student is, at least I feel it is, a fairly standard one. I don't have much of an opinion on it because all it is is a tool - the feeling is comparable to how a gardener feels about their rake. Word is preferable to other, similar mediums, but ultimately I have no 'feelings' towards it. Again though, I do feel as though Word is better than other tools like Google's Docs, simply because I've used it for longer. Honestly, Docs probably has more that you can do with it, considering it's tied directly to the internet so it's easy to install plug-ins, however I do not wish to learn an new program that ultimately performs the exact same functions.     I believe two of these standards are incredibly important for educators to hold, firstly that of the Leader, but more important that of the Analyst, which I believe is also an integral facet of properly leading. Intuition is certainly a core part of teaching, however when it comes ...