It’s been a few months since I opened my Twitter account for my Introduction to Educational Technology class and quite a lot has changed in terms of my view of Twitter. When I first started using Twitter back in middle school, I didn’t really use it at all. I saw it as similar to Facebook at the time and didn’t really know how to find other accounts to follow. When I revisited it in high school, I used it for memes and other funny content on the internet. Towards the end of that period of me using Twitter, I used to to socialize and have conversations with my friends. Now that I have been using it from an educator’s point of view, I see everything in a new light. I have been able to hear about some really amazing things happening around my own school and in the world of education in general and I’ve been able to see what my classmates think about what we are doing in class. There is so much information and so many Twitter accounts that post new information as it comes and I’ve never seen something that stays so current with the times.
This past week, we had an assignment to create a website. A teacher website, to be exact. This website was maybe the third website that I’ve made, however, it was my first time making a website through Weebly. While Weebly is similar to Wix, it had some differences that I felt were quite noticeable. In my opinion, Weebly is mostly formatted already and quite strictly. This makes keeping the website aesthetically pleasing quite easy and you don’t have to put as much effort into building your website. If you want a little more creative freedom, however, Wix would be a better pick. Wix seems to have more freedom in how your page can be laid out. You can easily stretch and compress components of your page and you can move titles and images around with more freedom versus meeting an invisible wall on Weebly. I’m glad I worked with Weebly this time so that I was able to compare the two and understand them both individually. You can visit the website I created here and attached below is a quick screenshot of it!
Assistive and Adaptive Technology is technology created in order to give students with disabilities and equal chance at getting the same education as their peers at the same pace and in the same environment. Now that technology is advancing and we are becoming more aware of the hardships and obstacles other students face, we are finding more technology to help. One of my brothers fought with brain cancer throughout his entire schooling career. Most cancers only really effect the part of the body where it is found, however, brain cancer tends to effect the rest of the body since it is the central hub of the body’s functions. The first assistive/adaptive technology my brother needed to utilize in order to keep up with his peers was hearing aids. With his hearing deteriorating, it was necessary for him to wear his hearing aids to school. By the time I made it to the 5th grade, my elementary school and the middle school I would soon attend had implemented a microphone and speaker system in all of their classrooms. Today, in my college classes, I notice the larger lecture halls have microphones and speaker systems installed. These technologies to help the hearing impaired are becoming more and more of a norm in classrooms. The only issue I see with this technology is if a student does have hearing aids already, the frequencies and volume of the speaker system could make their situation even worse.
This past week, we had an assignment to create a website. A teacher website, to be exact. This website was maybe the third website that I’ve made, however, it was my first time making a website through Weebly. While Weebly is similar to Wix, it had some differences that I felt were quite noticeable. In my opinion, Weebly is mostly formatted already and quite strictly. This makes keeping the website aesthetically pleasing quite easy and you don’t have to put as much effort into building your website. If you want a little more creative freedom, however, Wix would be a better pick. Wix seems to have more freedom in how your page can be laid out. You can easily stretch and compress components of your page and you can move titles and images around with more freedom versus meeting an invisible wall on Weebly. I’m glad I worked with Weebly this time so that I was able to compare the two and understand them both individually. You can visit the website I created here and attached below is a quick screenshot of it!
Assistive and Adaptive Technology is technology created in order to give students with disabilities and equal chance at getting the same education as their peers at the same pace and in the same environment. Now that technology is advancing and we are becoming more aware of the hardships and obstacles other students face, we are finding more technology to help. One of my brothers fought with brain cancer throughout his entire schooling career. Most cancers only really effect the part of the body where it is found, however, brain cancer tends to effect the rest of the body since it is the central hub of the body’s functions. The first assistive/adaptive technology my brother needed to utilize in order to keep up with his peers was hearing aids. With his hearing deteriorating, it was necessary for him to wear his hearing aids to school. By the time I made it to the 5th grade, my elementary school and the middle school I would soon attend had implemented a microphone and speaker system in all of their classrooms. Today, in my college classes, I notice the larger lecture halls have microphones and speaker systems installed. These technologies to help the hearing impaired are becoming more and more of a norm in classrooms. The only issue I see with this technology is if a student does have hearing aids already, the frequencies and volume of the speaker system could make their situation even worse.
Hey Kadi,
ReplyDeleteI think you did a good job on your website. For starters, I like how you linked it on your blog by having to click the word here, instead of having a long URL. As far as your website for itself I believe the set up of the pages are nice and clean, the content is laid out in a way where it is easy to read. One of my favorite pages was your testing resources page because the header and the images on the page tie back to the subject of the page well. The links on the testing resources page is also presented well. One critic that I do have it that the important links on the class resource page could have been bigger or stood out away from the calendar more.