Blog #7

While making my Weebly website I learned a lot during the process. I had never made a website before so it was exciting and freeing to create one. I looked for the perfect pictures and tried my hardest to get the best spacing. I learned to to hyperlink pretty much anything as well as insert a calendar which I had never done before. I really enjoyed this assignment and how customizable you could make your page. I had a lot of fun expressing what I wanted in a website that represented me as a person. Weebly is a site I could definitely see myself using again. Sometimes the formatting was a little difficult and stubborn to use which was bothersome. I had to re-write my bio like 4 times because it would never save. Next time I wouldn't change much except for pictures perhaps as far as getting them to be the same sizes. I totally see myself using his website in the future for many endeavors.

My Weebly!!!!!!!!!!


Diigo is another useful site for students and teachers alike. It helps you to congregate all of your useful links and websites into one area and find them easily through tags. It helped me brainstorm hashtags and really focus in on the important information. I really like how you can highlight parts on a page for easier access and visibility. This is useful in the classroom for guiding students on what they need to read or research so they stay on track and learn how different articles and sites relate through hashtags. It's alsoa great way to stay organized amongst yourself and co-workers AND on top of everything you can totally collaborate with others to increase your resources and make sure your Diigo saves are at top quality. 

Poetry Song ILP

I wrote a song about Poetry for my ILP. Below is the link and a copy of the lyrics.


http://yoreidyo.tumblr.com/post/151988454101/poetry-song-for-class

There are many different kinds of poetryLike free free verse haiku limericks sonnets and elegys
The world is yours to write about so make words into beauty
Cus poetry is everywhere and even you can poetryA stanzas like a paragraph inside of a poem
A verse is a line inside a poem, together they make a stanza
Form is how you convey your content
There's many shapes and sizes
And poems are like lyrics but you don't always have to rhyme themSo write down the feelings inside of your head
And make a piece of art that you can show your mom and dad
Poetry will free your soul and make your spirit soar
Talk about the things that shake you down to your coreAlliteration is repeating letters at the beginning of your words like
Hey hello how's having hungry Hungarians hating hockey??
Hyperbole is exaggeration like I could eat a whole cow
I can't really eat a whole cow but wouldn't that be funny?
A simile is a comparison using like or as like
I'm as cool as a cucumber or cool like an ice cream coneA metaphor is a like a simile but no like or as
Like I'm about to explode or this is a song of my soulSo write down the feelings inside of your head
And make a piece of art that you can show your mom and dad
Poetry will free your soul and make your spirit soar
Talk about the things that shake you down to the coreImagery is a vivid language
Sight sound touch taste smelltone or mood helps give the feelings
If you're sad and feeling bluerhythm or meter of a poem is like pacing and the flow
And an oxymoron is a contradiction like
Jumbo shrimp or I'm busy doing nothing

Personification is giving human characteristics
To objects like a bowling ball or a half eaten Twinkie
Onomatopoeia is words that make a sound
Like meow buzz tick and tock and eidkdbshsisbsvsjsbvhauSo write down the feelings inside of your head
And make a piece of art that you can show your mom and dad
Poetry will free your soul and make your spirit soar
Talk about the things that shake you down to the coreThis was a song I hope you enjoyed
I could have been longer than longBut then you would get annoyed
I'll leave you with a final line to give you a proper goodbyePoetry can't write itself so be a poet and poem some poetry yourself

Tech 6

When I enter the teaching profession, I see myself using technology to make my job easier, more organized, and more interactive. With technology advancing at an exponential rate, I can only imagine what tools will be available as time goes on. Communication between teacher and student/parents will be more accessible with new apps programs. Smart boards are a tool that teachers I had in high school used and it made things more organized and customized.

When we went to the technology sandbox, my mind was blown. As someone who wants to teach English, it seems difficult to really incorporate virtual reality and other similar technologies in the classroom especially for high school.  One thing I mentioned before is the use of smart boards to teach lessons. They let you pre-load lesson plans that you can draw on and have students interact together through games and quizzes.

Quit Playing Games With My... Brain?

         Web 2.0 tools are a very important part of modern curriculum not only because they open the door to new ways of learning and teaching but they also push the boundaries of how students receive information relevant to their learning style. There's an app I have used called Duolingo and its use is to teach foreign language. The app works very well for me and teaches me in such a way that sitting in a classroom cannot. Mobile apps are a great Web 2.0 tool because there are so convenient and interactive which maintain attention and are also relatively fun! Although Web 2.0 tools are completely necessary, a teacher would be shooting themselves in the foot if they did not take advantage of all the great learning tools available these days.
         One Web 2.0 website I found is called http://jott.com/ This app allows users with the same app to interact via group chat regardless of having service or not. It's used off of Bluetooth and wifi. What it does is it allows users who have the same app to create a group and interact with each other. It's useful in many scenarios for example school field trips, group work in class, or while playing a game. There's no need for phone numbers, just to join the group chat you want to be in. Although this may be difficult to apply to classrooms due to most phone rules at schools, I can definitely see this being used on a educational field trip to a museum or park so students can talk and compare observations without direct communication.
         I think that gamification is going to be the biggest addition to modern teaching. Who doesn't love to play games? Students learn while adding fun, competition, and use of new technology. I thik gamification seems most important because when I was in school this wasn't really an option. iPhones and iPads didn't exist until the later years of high school and at that point they were still to new to be really integrated into modern teaching curriculum. Teachers of all grade levels can use this tool to empower students and show them that education can be fun and playful instead of so serious and mundane. With technology advancing every single day, I don't see a future where gamification isn't part of the average day in a classroom setting.