Aneli's Blog

I have been using Twitter for many years, but I have been using it in my EME class for about 10 weeks. When I first started using Twitter I had no idea how to use it. I only made a Twitter because all of my friends had one and I felt left out. I just uploaded and profile picture and made a username. I had no followers and I did not follow anyone. I did not know how to use hashtags or know what hashtags were used for. I didn’t even know how to follow my friends or gain followers. Once my friends taught me how to follow others, the app became more fun. My friends taught me how to retweet. I would tweet and retweet everything. I would tweet everything I was doing and tweet about who I am with. I would also post pictures with friends. I would usually only retweet funny tweets from my friends or cute pictures of puppies. Many people use Twitter to just update others what they are doing and who they are with. But some individuals use it to tweet about all their opinions on different subje...

For my independent learning project, I decided to do a Lynda.com. I accessed this by going onto my fsu.edu and in the resources tab I found Lynda.com. This website is a learning platform that helps individuals learn business, software, technology, and creative skills to achieve personal and professional goals. It includes a library of videos and tutorials of top-quality courses taught by industry experts. The tutorials also come in many languages and there are tutorials for everyone! I really enjoyed using Lynda.com and I encourage anyone to use it. They have such a variety of tutorials and subjects that everyone can find something they are interested in! After looking through all the courses that lynda.com offers, I decided i wanted to improve my skills in Microsoft Word. There were many other options in every subject you can think of.  I choose the tutorial called "master Microsoft word." There were so many categories of different things to learn. I learned how to format ...

Many schools require teachers to maintain a class website. On their website they usually include basic information like their name and any updates on class assignments. These websites also usually include a welcoming page and a quick description about the teacher. The website might also include links to other helpful resources that help students. On Google, I searched elementary school class websites and viewed a couple of them. Many of them shared the same basic information. They were all appealing to look at too. They each had multiple tabs. One tab was a welcome tab which included basic information like the teachers name and the grade level. Many of them also included a helpful resources tab and a homework tab. For example I found a class website from a teacher from Dallin Elementary School.The link is http://missfish2ndgrade.weebly.com/. This is a class website from a second grade teacher named Miss. Fish. Her website includes many organized tabs. She has a home, homework...

Diigo is a social bookmarking website that allows users to bookmark and tag Web pages. It also allows the users to highlight any part of a web page and attach sticky notes to the webpages. These annotations made using Diigo can be made public so individuals can share with their friends or they can be kept private for your own personal notes. I was first introduced to Diigo in my EME class this year. Prior to this class, I had never even heard of it. I had my first experience using this tool last week in class. Our class created a group on Diigo so that we could each post our individual links and comment on each other’s posts. We each posted a link to a website that addresses academic software. In the Diigo group, I was able to see all my classmates’ links and comment on them which was really fun. I really enjoyed using Diigo for the first time and I will continue to use it. It will be extremely helpful for me to use while studying. Sometimes my teachers assign me homework on...

For my blog post #4 I created a VoiceThread! Here is the link! https://voicethread.com/share/11461502/

There are a total of three technology standards for first grade. The first one is to know and use various text features, like the table of contents, to locate key facts or information in a text. The second standard is to use a variety of digital tools to produce and publish writing, including in collaboration with peers  with guidance and support from adults. The last standard is to ask and answer questions about key details in a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media. I would feel most prepared to teach my students how to ask and answer questions about key details in a text read aloud or information presented orally. I would teach my students to focus and listen when information is read aloud. I would play an audiobook off a smartphone or mp3 and have my students listen. I would then ask my students questions about the book and ask specific questions about the story to make sure they were paying attention. Another standard I feel prepared to teach i...

I have been using Microsoft Word for many years as a student. I started using it during elementary school, but I would just play around with the settings. I first started to seriously use it in middle school. I wasn’t taught how to utilize microsoft word physically in school, but I taught myself as I was growing up by messing around with all the different functions. Microsoft Word helped me in school by providing me with many useful functions. Microsoft Word would highlight or underline my grammatical mistakes and correct them. It also has many different templates that would help me create newsletters, advertisements, essay formats, and more. It made it easy to change fonts and font size and to tell me my word count. I have seen my teachers utilize Microsoft word since elementary school too. They would use it to create classroom newsletters, compose spelling lists, and make graphs and charts. Almost all teachers use Microsoft Word to formulate their handouts and study guides. My teach...