In this blog post, I will be discussing common standards for American schools. The ELA technology standards I decided to focus on are the ones for Kindergarten since that is the grade level I am looking to teach. The standards for Kindergarten are to introduce them to digital resources that allow them to produce and publish written documents and comparing them to their peers’ works. I personally do feel as though I can implement this standard into teaching as I am incredibly familiar with writing digitally through MS Word and other word processing programs. The tool I chose to speak on from the CPALMS kindergarten toolkit was the visual arts standard on discussing personal choices in creating art. I would use this in my classroom to give my students an opportunity to get exposed to art and art interpretations so that they can begin to understand artists. I would also use this standard to allow them to get creative and make art of their own during class so that we can discuss why they m...
Diigo for me is pretty cool, I like the features where we can add sticky notes and the web browser extension to help us bookmark things in webpages as we find them. The only con for me is that the the layout and design feels a little dated and there’s not much about the site that pops as far as design goes. I feel like there’s more that could be done in that area of the software but I also think that as we create more and more bookmarks, we can make them lively and colorful with different fonts and adding images to bring the pages more to life. I love blogging, I like it better through the form of video but I have always been really into writing and sharing my experiences to help others. I was even thinking about starting a blog this year for passive income and using it to discuss the tough times that life encompasses that we don’t always have the ability to share on social media and build a community of people sharing how they get through tough times as well. I think it’s so nice to m...
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