Blog Post #8

Happy Thursday! How was your Spring Break? Mine was absolutely incredible. I had the opportunity to lead a Mission Trip of 18 students from FSU to Kingston, Jamaica to serve the poor. I'd love to tell ya all about it! Check out some highlights of my trip below:

Samuel, one of the residents with Downs Syndrome I served at the compound. 

The team from Florida State University after the trip in St. Petersburg, FL. 

Today at "the 727," we will be discussing my experience so far with Diigo, PowerPoint, and technology in reference to professional development. Let's dig in!

Diigo has been very frustrating and challenging for me to use. I find it to be not user-friendly whatsoever and difficult to navigate between options and groups. I do think, with proper settings and available options, it could be used in a positive manner for group projects and professional career reasons. If a group of teachers are working on gathering resources for their classes, Diigo could be a way to share those resources and annotate important information. This might be beneficial for some people, but i'll stick with traditional bookmarking through Safari or Chrome.

I'm quite familiar with PowerPoint and the influence it may have on a student's learning within the classroom. It's important to recognize that having a visually pleasing and well organized and readable PowerPoint can make or break an experience. After reviewing Bloom's Technology, I think that I would do a great job with the majority of the levels in the hierarchy. Those levels are remember, understand, apply, analyze, evaluate, and create. The one level in which I feel I would not be sufficient in is analyzing. When in a classroom setting, I struggle with connecting the dots sometimes and relating it back to information learned. In making my own PowerPoints for classroom reasons, this is something that I would probably struggle with. The same goes for evaluating!  On the other hand, remembering, understanding, applying, and creating are more practical and easy for me to comprehend. Incorporating the other levels of the hierarchy will probably be difficult but tangible.

To enhance technological advancements in classrooms, it is necessary that teachers stay up to date on the rising advancements and trends in order to support student learning. In doing so, The office of Educational Technology website provides news articles and resources for teachers. Below are screenshots of the homepage of the website and the teacher resource page. I recommend taking a look at the website (hyperlinked above)!

I'll catch ya next week! Byeeee



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