Kelly's Blog

As an elementary school teacher, I think I will use surveys or reporting tools when I am trying to get feedback from my students on how I am doing as a teacher and some fun activities they would like to do. Times change very quickly, so I think by the time I am a teacher I will no longer know what peeks students' interest so say I am doing a math lesson, I would want to get their attention by using their favorite TV show characters. I enjoyed getting to know my classmate's fields of interest and how they plan to teach it. Most of my classmates are elementary education majors, so I enjoyed reading what ideas they had to have a successful classroom, and it gave me ideas too. I would like to further my knowledge with powerpoint. Even though this is something we learned how to do in class, I believe it will be the most useful to me as a teacher because that is how I will present lessons to my students and I would like to know what else I can do with i...

The Flipped Classroom is similar to open education in the fact that students are watching videos outside of the classroom, but what sets flipped classroom apart is that it is used as homework, and when the students come back the next day, they are expected to have lessons and activities on the video. The teacher becomes less of the main educator, and is used as more of a guide, as said in the textbook. Open education was one of the "open" terms mentioned in the podcast and it is when a professor from one college or university can record their lecture and it be viewed to students in a completely other state. They do not need to be enrolled at that university to access the videos, and that can come with a few drawbacks.  These include a potential lack of administrative oversight and quality assurance systems for educators/materials in some programs, infrastructure limitations in developing countries, a lack of equal access to technologies required f...

Last class I learned about all different types of ways students with disabilities can still learn and participate in school though adaptive technology. I learned about how they can use technology with reading when they have a visual or speech impediment, and I learned about how they can write when they have a physical disability. I learned more about adaptive technology in a more personal sense because my classmates were able to explain its different functions in a way the textbook didn't. I learned, through the Diigo assignment, the different ways technology can be used to help out students with disabilities and the definition of an exceptional learner, and how technology can also help ELL students!

Adaptive technology helps people with a disability perform tasks like reading and writing. In  Chapter 4 of our textbook, we learn about many different types of adaptive technologies. Word processing software, recorded (audio) books, and input and output devices are just the beginning. I have used audio books to listen to when I have long car rides, and that helps me fight motion sickness, but I do not know someone personally that has a disability and uses adaptive technology. A challenge that might arise in having adaptive technologies in the classroom is if the technology is glitching, or not working, then the student may not be able to use it as needed. I would use the Remember level in the classroom by having review PowerPoints and possibly making a Jeopardy! presentation where students can team up and compete while reviewing information before their test. I would use the  Understand level in PowerPoint by using different examples of a topic in the presentation, like i...

https://kkeith7.weebly.com Here is my class page for A4.

Using twitter in an educational form has helped me learn ways to talk more professionally, even if it's on social media, it's still just as important to be professional. I've found many different articles about education in America and it has kept me up-to-date in what's happening in our department of the government. The biggest issue with the twitter assignment I have is actually remembering to tweet more than once a week, and trying to not do everything all at once. I have had to create websites for classes in the past and I am not particularly a fan. I would not create a whole new website for my class, I would use a website that is already set up like Edmodo. In the future, I would recommend to not have this assignment. My reasoning is that we are already creating a website through blogger and in other required classes at FSU like ENC2135, we are creating a website in that class as well so student's (at FSU at least) are already learning how to create a websit...