Blog Journal 7


Twitter has been an interesting experience. Before taking EME 2040, I didn’t even have a twitter account. Personally, I have mixed feelings about the program as a whole. Due to the issues that have been facing our world, Twitter seems to have become a board for people to post about their issues with the country, Trump, and one another. No matter how much you follow a certain type of account (for example, education accounts), posts from the President and the First Lady pop up on my feed, as well the immense amount of hate people have for the both of them. I feel like if you were able to filter out all the hate and noise of people being on the internet, then Twitter could be an interesting tool for teachers to use for announcements and get the class’s idea on different things.

I found that I LOVE designing websites, especially for this educational reason. I found it so much fun to research different math topics and find resources for students to use to help them on homework and for concept comprehension. I am excited to be able to implement a tool like this for my future classrooms. I might even use the same website, but add and take way as I need to along my professional career. You can find my website at acupcake75.wix.com/website



Assistive and adaptive technologies are different resources and programs designed to aid people with different disabilities to perform tasks with ease and independence. They vary in who they help and what they do. When my brother was younger he had a speech issue, he had to go see a speech therapist everyday after school to help him with his language skills. One of the things she gave him was a special disk to put at the end of straws. The disk helped him to develop his tongue muscles so that he could pronounce “r” noises easier. I feel like one of the biggest issues I might face In the future when trying to use these tools for my students is actually knowing how to use them and receiving the correct professional development tools to aid them in the way they need.

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