Georgia's Educational Technology Journey

     I like how this class has showed me many resources that I would not have found otherwise. I will also be able to use these resources for future jobs to make technology easier. I don’t like how I can get confused and lost in the work during this class. It is also harder to keep up with participation without having a good amount of time in the classroom. If I became a teacher, I could improve classroom experience by having a a forum for student to put in input about a class and to get help.            Open educational resources are items that have free access that are openly licensed for educational and research purposes. Users can edit or share these resources with others as well. I found an article from UNESECO that talks about OERs and how they are very useful to classrooms. This website gives many resources for further research as well as examples. https://www.unesco.org/en/open-educational-resources      During Assignme...

While creating the web design I learned a lot of new skills, such as how to create a Google Calendar and sync it to a website. While creating the website, I used all of the CRAP principles. For example, I was trying to be aware of contrast with the colors to insure that everyone can read the text. I liked how this assignment gave us experience for something that could be helpful for teaching, as well as other possible careers. I would like to go into marketing so I could use these skills when creating other websites or content.   https://edf2040georgia.weebly.com Diigo is a great resource that could be helpful for teachers in the classroom to keep all of their helpful links together in one place. Not only will it keep links in the same place, but it can share your resources with other teachers and get opinions. I like how you annotate within the website by highlighting and commenting. This is very helpful to find information I was previously looking at to remember my thoughts....

  I looked at my elementary/middle school’s website and their class pages were arranged by grade level. Every grade level had links to each teacher’s emails. There was also a link to a separate website, one for middle school, another for elementary where all extracurricular activities were listed. There were also pictures of activities done throughout the school. And on each page there were important due dates as well as YouTube videos for inspiration on various projects.      Since I have decided to go into marketing, there will be many online resources that I will use in my daily work life. One tool I would use is Class Dojo to help with class management. Another tool for teachers is Apple Podcasts has a variety of podcasts for teachers, even FSU has some educational podcasts! I would also use Google Scholar to find peer reviewed resources with lots of educational topics.     I did not participate in the Twitter days of the week challenge because I f...