Therese Gochnauer

          I visited Leon High School's website and found Sandra, Brinkman's class page. She had some encouraging announcements at the top and then laid out the assignments and tasks for the next week below. Her page was very easy to follow and well displayed. The tasks required were clear and easy to access for students to quickly get to and from. This is a great resource for parents as well if they need to monitor their child's homework or help them complete these assignments. If I had a page it would be very similar to this format for the easiest use from my students so they can focus on the assignments and not navigating my website.     Before this class I was not a very technologically savvy individual so I did not envision myself using a great deal of technology in my classroom. However, after reaching the half way point for this class I realize now the importance of technology in the classroom and how beneficial it can be to learning. I...

       My initial reaction to Diigo was feeling very overwhelmed. There is a lot of information on the initial page as well as when you first enter the group and it was a lot to take in all at once. After reading our assignment instructions and just navigating through the different links and pages, it became less overwhelming and it seems like a very useful tool. This is an easy to use website that allows people to share and find ideas easily based on key words and descriptions. It also has many different features that allow for a variety of ideas and sources to be shared. This would be a great forum for teachers to share their resources that have worked or have not worked for them in the past for other teachers or educators to refer to.      The blogging experience was not a completely foreign idea for me as it resembles discussion posts very closely in my opinion. We write about a topic or prompt and we post it for our classmates and teacher to see. ...

 The very first standard declares the use of multiple forms of media to decipher the meanings of different words based on an 11-12 th grade standard.  This can be done through different online platforms like thesauruses or dictionaries. The standard also mentions accomplishing this through printed materials as well but highlights the use of the internet or online sources. This was one of the standards that I do feel prepared for since I have done this through my entire education to this point. I frequently use these types of sources to write papers, discussion posts, and other assignments that have made me familiar with these types of sources. The tool I chose is a model eliciting activity that creates an open ended discussion about real life situations. The activity I chose presents ideas and conflicts surrounding diabetes and the risks and choices that go along with it. I chose this activity as I do not know much about this topic; let alone how to teach it to a class. Thi...