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Blog #7 - October 30th!!

Hello Everyone,
This week I am writing about my experiences with Twitter, what I learned with the creation of my Web page, and Assistive and Adaptive technologies.  
My experiences with Twitter so far have gone really well. The benefits of using Twitter include being able to see what so many others with the same interests as me are posting about and currently doing within the field of educational technology. It makes it simple to publish someone else's tweet, so your followers can see who you agree with. A benefit is being able to see quick updates on information, without having to go read whole articles. Instead, I can easily read the headlines, and then if I am interested I can go and research more about that specific topic. I have learned many things about educational technology using Twitter, and updates on things that are happening in the classroom. For example, last week I read about a teacher protest that was happening in Oklahoma! I have not experienced any problems with Twitter, and I love increasing my PNL through Twitter.
When I was creating my website I learned so many new skills in Web Design. I made my Website through Weebly.com and I learned how to do so many things, like embed a functioning calendar into my webpage, create a chart, create a bulleted list, and add my Creative Commons license. I did not like that it was so hard to add a header for me, and the text boxes and the image boxes would not combine every time. Next time, I will make my pages more unique, and not follow the same pattern, yet still having enough repetition to flow together. I will use this skill in my future career when I have to make a real life teaching page, for the school I am with. I will already know how to create a website. My teaching page will be a way for my students to get access to any outside of class things they could need, and now that I know how to design a website, I will be able to make a even better website in my career. Attached is the link to my website, and a screenshot of the homepage.
Assistive and adaptive technologies are such an amazing addition to technology to benefit those who can not operate on technologies others can. I have not personally used any assistive and adaptive technologies, however I have friends who have. My friend was very OCD, and always had to make sure his notes were perfect. Because of having perfect notes, he could not ever pay attention to the whole lecture and have good notes. As a result, he had a recorder teachers would wear around their neck, and everything the teacher said would be recorded. This way he could go back and finish his notes. The challenges in using these technologies in the classroom would be access, or trying to have all the technologies to support those with special needs. Also it could be a challenge if the student would need to use their voice for one of the assistive technologies, then it could disrupt the other students in the classroom. I am amazed by the assistive and adaptive technologies that can allow so many more people to be able to use technology.


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