EME Blog

     I have enjoyed using Diigo so far. Diigo is not something I have heard of before, but it seems to be a helpful tool for collaboration and discussion of relevant topics, articles, and research. I think that Diigo can be especially helpful in an online class, such as this one, to help make up for the lack of in person conversation. In the beginning though, Diigo did seem a bit difficult to understand but can be learned quickly.       Blogging has been an interesting component of this class. I think it helps sort of wrap things up for the week, or to reinforce the learning objectives. Blogging encourages the class to mentally process the assignments or objectives that we have reviewed for the module. It has also been helpful to learn about this blogging service along with how it works. It could be something that many of us continue to use later on.      One interesting Web 2.0 tool I have found, outside ones we have disc...

       So far I have enjoyed using twitter. I have not had a twitter account since briefly in middle school, and though I have heard about it and seen posts before, the way it works is fairly new to me. I have been following various news sources, along with educational related material, most of it being research. I can see how twitter can be useful in getting information fast, especially new research and news worthy events. This could be helpful in a future career as staying up to date on certain events and research will be important no matter what field one is in.       The digital divide can affect student success in a few different ways. One way is if assignments require technology access/knowledge outside the classroom, where technology and instruction is provided. This divide may also continue outside of public education, leaving those who have lacked technology access in a position to make up for lack of technological knowledge/skill with li...

 When browsing through the ELA Standards and Technology Matrix for grades 11-12 I realized there are some guidelines recommending tools that I am currently unfamiliar with. It seems that the guidelines are relatively straight forward and I believe that given enough time to understand each standard I could manage to implement these standards. Although, since there is many technological programs and tools that are recommended for these standards that I am unfamiliar with, I feel that I could not successfully implement them at the current moment.  The resource I chose to talk about deals with social studies in the 9th to 12th grade. The resource serves as a primary source (as pictures) set that aids in the teaching of the civil rights movement. What is special about this resource is that it teaches about Freedom Riders as they rode from Washington D.C to Tallahassee Florida in 1961, and how they were eventually arrested in the Tallahassee airport. I would institute this resource ...