Blog Journal- - 8

While working with Diigo I have learned multiple skills. The most effective skill I learned was learning how to add sticky notes and share the comments to the class as well as responding to other classmates' comments within their post that were published to the group classroom. Diigo can be useful in my classroom by engaging the students to connect to each other as well as finding and annotating certain websites or PDF's. 

I could use PowerPoint to support student learning. While teaching my second-grade classroom about planets, I could have the students learning at each level of Bloom's Taxonomy which is pictured above. For remember, I would use the repeat function in PowerPoint to visually and hear things multiple times to remember. To understand, I would add questions after each slide to make sure my students are understanding the material. For application, I would have an interactive lesson plan to make sure my students could apply their knowledge to an activity, For analyzing, I would have the students be able to make their own PowerPoint lesson plan about planets to make sure they are able to break down the information and the component parts. For evaluation, I would have them grade my lesson plan that I taught and see if there are any misunderstandings or problems with the lesson plan I taught. For creating, I would have the students analyze my lesson plan and make a 3D object of the planets surrounding our system. 

How to stay up to date with technology trends as an educator

Technology is an open door and is always revolving. Keeping up with technology and teacher professional development can be difficult at times, but there are many resources that are available to all educators/teachers in the field. Technology always changing can be beneficial but it can also be detrimental. Beneficial in that, it is always improving and making life easier, but detrimental in that students have to get accustomed to the constant change in their learning and be able to adapt easily. There are many ways you can help your students adapt to these changes and the website I provided is a great start. As a teacher, you can also follow blogs that other educators post about and learn what kind of technology they're using while this answers those questions it also helps build your teacher professional development with other teachers.