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Blog 8

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    While working with Diigo, the new skills I learned were how to bookmark sites and annotate on them. I believe this is a useful skill because it is a quick and effective way to share articles and different websites in a group or just for myself. In the classroom, this application can be useful because it is a great way to share your thoughts and opinions on certain articles and specific quotes. I can annotate the work my students turn in electronically instead of having to use pen and paper. With team members it would also be effective because you can easily create a group where we can each share our portion of the project or assignment we are working on together. It is also useful for myself because I would not have to print out articles, I could just annotate them and bookmark them using Diigo.      I would use Powerpoint to support student learning at each level of blooms taxonomy is a various ways in a lesson. If I was conducting a biology lesson, for th...

Blog 7

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      Using twitter as an educational platform is extremely effective. I have been able to find numerous accounts that provide great resources for study tips, reliable news, and different subjects. What I learned from using twitter is that it is a great platform for a classroom because students are able to check up on posts that their teachers make and they can even contribute their opinions to issues by replying to different tweets. Twitter is beneficial because teachers can use it to post assignments that are due or to update students on things taking place in school for that week. Overall, I have not experienced any issues while utilizing twitter.       While working on the web design assignment, I learned how to set up my own website and customize it to my liking. This was very helpful because once I become a teacher I now know all the basic skills to set up a website for my classroom. I liked how easy it was to add texts boxes and images. For the most...