Kadi's Educational Tehcnology Journey

Below is a link to my VoiceThread for my ILP #2. For this ILP I completed the design portion of the assignment and created my own Cahoot quiz for an upper level writing course, reviewing the PowerPoint I created for my first PowerPoint assignment. My VoiceThread

     A flipped classroom is essentially a class structured so that the learning happens at home and clarification happens in class. I first heard of this instructional design in high school. I only took four Advanced Placement classes in high school, one of them being AP Psychology. In this class, we were provided with video lectures and textbooks. It was our responsibility to do the readings and watch the lectures online as needed so that in class, when our teacher would lecture, we were prepared with questions. Our in class lectures were quite vague and just used to really clarify topics, since psychology is a complex subject. We were always given time in class to do study guides and ask questions. Out of all of my AP courses, I did the best on my AP Psychology exam after using this method. I don't believe, however, that it is the most effective instructional design for all subjects nor students. You also have to think about accessibility. Our video lectures were all on...

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     The week before spring break was the last time we used Diigo's software in my educational technology course. While it is sad to say goodbye, I know that I can always go back and use it as a resource and I learned so many great things through our in-class activities involving the software. One of the best moments we had while using Diigo this semester was when we were trying to create a discussion thread. Initially, it seemed quite unorganized and not set up in a way to easily interact with on another's comments, however, one of my classmates found that you could use Diigo's highlighting feature on the thread itself so we could easily respond to each other's individual comments! It was a learning moment for the entire class which was pretty great. I think in the future I would encourage my students to use Diigo when writing research papers or any papers that require sources that are accessible online. Through Diigo, they can share their resources with peers writing ...

     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 come...

     Technology is becoming more and more intwined with education. Ever since I can remember and since I had access to a computer, my teachers have had websites online. This online engagement transitioned from pages on the school website to classes on Canvas and Blackboard. One example that I found from my elementary school is from my 2rd grade teacher. She teaches at James H. Cox Elementary School which runs from Kindergarten through Fifth grade. Other schools in the district go up to Sixth grade as well. She now teaches 3rd grade as clarified in her bio on the website. She includes things like weekly homework assignments and announcements online so that if a student loses any papers or a parent wants to check what work their student has for the week, it is easily accessible online. She also includes school supplies that are needed for the class, academic resources, the vocabulary for the unit they are on, and more. Each page of her website has a cute graphic that is vi...

     The link below will take you to my VoiceThread discussing my experience using Lynda.com. I chose to complete a course on Lynda.com that had to do with education since it felt most fitting. I also wanted to explore the work that really goes into the packets of paper that we receive during the first week of classes that most students never look at again. Overall, I learned so much about how to write a syllabus and how important each piece of a syllabus is and I wish more students took this course just to understand why it is so important and a blessing that professors take the time to create and go over the syllabus with them. My VoiceThread

     Diigo, the social bookmarking tool, was introduced to us these past few weeks and so far, it is pretty awesome. I really like that we can be in groups and share websites and article we find related to a similar topic or even just for friends. Being able to share things and go back to them later on in one place is so convenient versus my 500+ notes on my phone with random links to things I saw online at some point and forgot about by the next hour. The annotating and highlighting feature is probably my favorite feature since the Diigo website shows you all of the parts you highlighted so you can remember exactly what you wanted to and not have to sit through entire articles again. I really wish that more people and groups in my life used this tool. I might have my mom download it after I show her how to download Google Chrome to her computer.      Since I already have some experience blogging from previous attempts at self-care and to just try to docum...

     Twitter has fought its way through the social media gauntlet and made its name as a social media powerhouse alongside Facebook, Instagram, and Snapchat. This being said, it has become one of the main sources of information for the average modern-day individual. I, personally, don't use Twitter as much as my peers. In high school I used Twitter pretty consistently for about a year or two once I attended a national convention for TV students. This convention had so many opportunities to connect and so many fun interactive accounts on Twitter and I kind of had to get more involved. After that convention, I also became a Senior News Director for our daily broadcast and at the time we hadn't really had any segments that involved social media, which was one of the components that was looked for in shows for competitions. So, I ended up coming up with a weekly social media segment to keep up with what students wanted to see on the show. Since then, I haven't used Twitter un...

     This week we discussed ELA standards and explored the different standards for different school levels. I decided to explore the 11th and 12th grade standards further since that would hopefully be the classes I would teach if I were to decide to follow this career path. Overall, the standards seem familiar, which is to be expected since I was in classes that utilized these standards less than two years ago. I would say I feel most prepared to teach students the skills to meet standard LAFS.1112.W.1.2, which focuses on writing informative texts to discuss complex ideas, essentially. I feel most prepared to teach this standard because I spent most of my time during my Junior and Senior year of high school learning how to write scripts for and produce a daily news show. The reason this really helped prepare me to teach this standard is the fact that producing a daily broadcast that does not eat into the school's class time requires me to pick and choose exactly what info...

     Microsoft Word has become a standard in education. Once we stopped learning how to physically write, we began learning how to well, write. For the sake of convenience, we started being required to type out our writing assignments so our teachers could actually read them. Once we started writing longer papers, we started learning how to format them. Until college, I only really used Word for English assignments, however, in my Academic Success class that I took last year, we learned a few ways to use it as a study tool for other classes as well. I find that in my college classes, quite a few teachers use Word documents for their lectures and a lot of teachers and professors I've had use it to write their quizzes and exams.      Something that we also learn about as we write lengthier papers on Word is Copyright. It has been ingrained into our brains to never ever plagiarize anything since elementary school. We first learned about plagiarism as copying ...

     Simply put, technology is just everywhere. Most jobs require that you have at least a phone number and email address which requires that you have at least some knowledge of how to use technology. Our education is supposed to prepare us for the adult world and getting a job, so it’s not surprise that technology is so prevalent in classrooms. Another reason technology is great for education is that it is convenient and can be fun, which engages students.       When being prepared for the future, there are many practical things we are taught in school. The dress code, for example, is to teach students that there is appropriate attire for specific times and places. One of the ISTE Standards for Students is “Digital Citizen.” This standard deals with acknowledging the privilege and responsibility of living in this digital age. It is a responsibility of the student to understand the permanence of their actions online and to continue online legally a...

This short article discusses the downfalls of a few content creators on YouTube whose careers were ruined after choosing to post content that was not appropriate or was offensive in some way. This list is just of YouTubers whose videos caused outrage, and not YouTubers whose careers were ruined by tweets from the past. This list shows just how important it is for everyone on the internet to really think through what they put on the internet and how they present themselves online.

    Hello there, my name is Kadi(that's pronounced like Katie). I am in my second full year of college and am currently studying Creative Writing. I was born in Southern California and moved to Florida for my high school career, and eventually, my college career. I am the youngest of four children and my family is spread across the country like butter on a piece of toast at this point. I eventually hope to write for mainstream news outlets someday, but teaching English has always been an option at the back of my mind.     I have always had a more positive experience with the educators I have been blessed with throughout my life, maybe that is because I somehow understand them on a different level, and perhaps in some cases, they knew how to get me engaged in the content. I remember the first history class where I actually felt interested in the content that I was being taught. My sophomore year of high school I took World History with the most amazing history teac...