Lauren's EME2040 Blog

The school website I chose to analyze was St. Paul Lutheran School in Boca Raton, Florida. The class pages I looked over were Math and Science. The math page talks about how the primary grades use lessons and written practice where as the older grades begin to separate depending on what classes kids test into. The science department uses a general teaching method for all grades, but offers a separate program for older students called STEM. The STEM program allows for students who are at a more advanced level than their peers to participate in a more challenging curriculum, and different way of teaching.   https://www.cyberfalcon.com/Science-STEM How I envision myself using technology to accomplish my professional responsibilities is using my resources in the best way possible. I will definitely use excel spreadsheets to keep track of my expenses monthly. I will also use dropbox to keep my personal files organized so if needed I can find them easily.   ...

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Diigo is a great website to keep track of all of your sources and websites you use. I feel like Diigo is a perfect tool for students because it allows them to organize their websites used. A website like Diigo is ideal for when students are writing papers and have to keep track of what sources they are using. What I did not like about Diigo is that the website itself is a little hard to familiarize yourself with, and can be confusing.  I personally love blogging. Blogging allows you to make posts about any topic on a larger scale platform. What I like about blogging is that there is no standard format that needs to be followed, you are free to express yourself in whichever way you want. I have learned so far about the blogging process that it is extremely easy to make blog posts even from your phone. I encourage everyone to try blogging for a little, they may not know what they're missing!  An interesting Web 2.0 tool that ...

The ELA technology standards I feel most prepared to teach with my existing knowledge include, writing and literature. I feel most prepared to teach these standard with my existing knowledge because I have to use these standards in my day to day life as a college student and have used them through my life as a student in general. The standard I feel I require most learning on my behalf is, the Standard 10: Range, Quality, & Complexity. I do not feel that my knowledge is broad enough on this topic because I have never used the function throughout my educational career.  One of the tools I found to be very useful in the CPALMS educator toolkit was the lesson plans. I found that lesson plans for each subject would be extremely useful in a classroom to successfully teach students what they need to know about their material. The tool allows teachers to teach students through video tutorials and in class activities. I would use this in my classroom because it requires students t...