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Welcome back! Recently, I have began using different types of software in order to create educational contact that is more design heavy. This makes the information more pleasing to view as well as possibly encouraging students to want to learn. I have created an infographic (shown below) about the most important parts of the brain, including the four lobes, the cerebellum, pituitary gland, and cerebellum. Each of these different parts plays a role in motor and sensory processing as well as the senses and our emotions. Creating this infographic, the key idea was to make it pleasing to the eye and not text heavy. Infographics stick to the most important and basic information and that is what I have done here. I also wanted there to be a picture because there is often a lot of clipart featured within infographics. This type of infographic would be most beneficial in a science class in junior high or high school or even in a psychology class. I hope this inspires some of you to get...

Hello everyone! I hope you all had a lovely Thanksgiving! This week I will be discussing the uses of Microsoft Excel and surveys as a teacher as well as topics I found interesting throughout the semester from my classmates' blogs and the technology skills I would like to learn next. Recently, I have began using surveys and excel and have found that they are very beneficial as a teacher for calculating grades and class averages to see how students are doing in the class. Applying these to a second grade math class, surveys can be used in the classroom in the beginning of the year to learn a little bit more about your students. In my classes in junior high and elementary school, it was common for teachers to ask icebreaker questions and have us write them on post-it notes for them so they could begin to get to know us. Surveys could be an easier more convenient way for educators to obtain this information. Another usage could be to ask students how they are doing, how they learn ...

Hello everyone, Now that we are past Halloween, I know we are all very excited to begin moving into the holidays. On another note, to those in Tallahassee with me, I am deeply saddened by the shooting at the Hot Yoga Studio here. My thoughts and prayers are with those who have been affected by this. Hopefully we can all begin to take steps towards actions that can prevent situations such as this one. This week we will be talking about my experience in the previous weeks with Diigo, as well as using PowerPoint, and some ideas about teacher professional development. After working with Diigo over the course of the past couple weeks, I have found that it is very useful not only in the ability to share it with others but also for being able to look back at my annotations. I found it so convenient how I could comment on other people's bookmarks and see their comments as well. Another great benefit is that it is very user friendly. It took me about an hour to get used to using it and...