Blog Post #8

Some skills I've gained from working on the website assignment is how to format a website, create new pages of content, and include pictures and links to helpful information. One of the things I really liked about the assignment was that it gave me a taste of what my future may hold: Uploading helpful materials, announcements, links to study help, calendar of assignments, and everything else that a teacher could provide for their students. I surprisingly had a really fun time doing this assignment and got really into the whole thing. The only thing I disliked a bit was the limitations of design/format that came with using weebly. There were some things I wanted to do including placement of pictures or text that just weren't possible with the layouts that I tried. I think my website could be improved by making it a little more inviting and exciting for the students and parents. The layout I chose was the one I liked most out of the ones provided to me, so I definitely think if I had a bit more options or had used a different website maker, I could have gone in a bit of a different direction with my webpage. After completing this assignment, I feel pretty confident in my ability to make an actual one for my future classes!

Here's a link to my website: http://annie-eme2040.weebly.com/

Blooms Taxonomy includes many levels: Remember, Understand, Apply, Analyze, Evaluate, and Create. Powerpoint can be a great way to tap into each one of these levels during a classroom lesson. Remember can be presented through slides of previously learned material that serves as a basis for the current lesson, like making sure students remember how to plot points and identify the x and y-axis. Understand can be presented through slides of the new information/material that includes the basis information from the remember level, like how to find the slope of a line using those plotted points, and giving the formula for point-slope form. Apply can be presented through students completing slides of practice problems involving finding the slope of a line and putting it in point-slope form in order to apply the information they've just learned. Analyze can be presented through slides that present information that look closer at particular parts of the formula and how they affect the graph, including what the y-intercept does and how slopes of perpendicular lines relate to each other. Evaluate can be presented through a slide of a quick quiz or in order to see if the students retained and understood the material just gone over in the lesson. Create can be presented through slides asking students to come up with their own points and applying them to the point-slope formula, and then plotting that line to show representation of the line and mastery of the material.

One website that keeps track of all of the latest technology trends is: https://www.wired.com/

Wired provides in-depth coverage of current and future trends in technology and how they are shaping different aspects of everyday life, including business, entertainment, communications, science, politics, etc. It provides endless articles and resources of the newest developed technology and how they are making their mark on the world, as well as what their development means for the progress of our society.