Adaptive technologies are used to help students with learning disabilities. Some examples are large print books, computers with voice output, keyboard modifications, etc. I remember someone in my third grade class who used to do a lot of typing on the computer with a special keyboard, looking back I realize he probably had a learning disability and using adaptive technology helped him to learn and retain the information being taught. If I have a student that requires adaptive technology in the classroom I would of course be willing to help and do whatever I need to do for that student, it's my job. However, it makes my job more difficult because I might have to alter my whole lesson plan to ensure that this one student also understands.

For Bloom's Taxonomy, I think PowerPoint is very useful. For the first level of Remember, you can simply list facts and events from your lecture in a PowerPoint that the students need to memorize for a test. Understand can be used in a similar way to Remember, but the information in the PowerPoint would need to be more detailed. For Apply you can create an assignment where students need to present a PowerPoint to the class. Students can take what they learned from your presentation/lectures and apply them to their own presentation, that way you can see what they have learned previously and it also reinforces the lecture. Don't have them create their own PowerPoint because that is a higher level in Bloom's Taxonomy. For Analyze, you can use PowerPoint to display different pictures/political cartoons, and have the students analyze them; or you can compare and contrast two countries' governments using PowerPoint. For Evaluate, you can create a mock trial and require each team to create a basic PowerPoint to defend their position. For Create, you can do something similar to evaluate, but to make it more advanced you can make the group size smaller and require more PowerPoint elements.

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This article is from ISTE, which is a website that we've talked about in class. It is a great teaching resource. They posted the top 11 education technologies to watch/use. They do this every year so you can stay up to date.

My experience with Twitter is limited to the requirements for class. I do not have a personal Twitter account because I still don't really understand how to use it/what the purpose is; therefore, I don't really like it. For the purposes of this class I have learned a lot of information about our state. I follow the Florida Board of Education's twitter account. They post about a teacher of the week or county of the week, so I know about more local events from places where I don't live. I would consider that a benefit of using Twitter. My only issue is remembering to post on a weekly basis because I do not use regularly.

I learned a lot of new skills from the Web Page Design Assignment. Before this assignment I had never made a webpage before, so I would say that everything is a new skill. It took a little bit of time to learn the mechanics of the weebly but once I figured out the basics it was pretty easy to use. I can improve upon this next time by just making a better site. Now that I know how everything works I can experiment with more advanced skills. This assignment will definitely be helpful in my future career because most teachers are required to have a class website, so weebly might be the website that I actually use in the future. I will post a link to my website in the discussion board tonight :)

Diigo is a tool similar to Weebly. Prior to this class, I had never heard of Diigo. Having the ability to annotate articles without printing them out is pretty helpful and ecologically friendly. This tool can be used in high school English or Social Studies classes. If there is a research paper, students can use Diigo on their own or if there is a group research project they can use it together and share their information/annotations. I can use Diigo in my professional career if I decide to get a PhD. and need a bajillion resources to write my dissertation.