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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...

Bishop Larkin Catholic School doesn’t have the typical layout for their class pages. To start off, they don’t even have “class” pages. On the site, they have the classes sorted by grade type: early childhood, primary, intermediate, and middle school. The primary page (as an example) has all the teachers and aids for grades kindergarten through second grade. Also found on each of the pages is the curriculum for each of the grades. I could see myself designing a website to help my students visualize what I am trying to teach them. I could post the standards for our certain subject areas so the students can see where they should be and if I am helping them to achieve those standards. I also would post my contact information so that students and parents can get in touch with me. I can also use this website to post a calendar so students and parents can know the best times to have a meeting with me. After visiting the Technology Sandbox, I am looking forward to usin...

Using Diigo has been eye opening. I never knew there was a program like this out there to use. I am already integrating it into my other classes because I have a lot of online material to read. One of my favorite things about Diigo is the ability to annotate right on webpages and pdf files. It makes writing notes for readings so much easier. One of the things that I have really loved about blogging so far has been the ability to put yourself out there for people to see, but in the manner you want to be seen in. I have always been a shy person and have never been to really express myself to people easily. Through blogging, I have been able to express my teaching nature to the world and it has been therapeutic. I never thought I would enjoy this before now. Learning how to blog effectively, on a regular basis has been a change for me. Whenever I use any form of social media, it tends to be sporadic and inconsistent day to day and week to week. Being required to blog...