Eli's Education Blog (EME2040)

Hey everyone, Diigo has been very interesting to work with these through the last GICAs that we did. It was a program that I never knew about or even heard of. Diigo for me is great cause allows for a group to crowd source resources and articles. This would allow teachers to use crowd sourcing in their career more with both students and other teachers. I can see apply what we use Diigo for in our GICAs in a regular classroom with whatever topic we are working on, so they can see how to use the program and how they can work together to retrieve and annotate possible sources for a project or paper. The ability to comment on others annotations is also a really good way students to work together and talk about sources. Bloom's Taxonomy in lesson creation can be boosted through technology, to prove this, I will go over how PowerPoint can help at each level of the Taxonomy chart. Create: PowerPoint assignment are a great way to put the students in the shoes of the teachers and gi...

Hey everybody, https://voicethread.com/myvoice/thread/13191825/79734998 For my ILP #2 I used the data visualization software known as Tableau to create a story through data That I can use in a classroom setting. Tableau is a great product becasue it offers a lot of ways to create visuals than other programs like excel can offer. The project I created through Tableau was a simple visual story about Cuban sugar production and its political implications. It is linked below. https://public.tableau.com/profile/elias.g.larralde#!/vizhome/CubanSugarSampleStory/Story1

Hey everybody, Twitter is something else. I never had one before this class because I did not what I would do with it because I was just use to Instagram. But when I had to make one for this course, I made sure to make one for my general academic self and not just for this course. After following and using twitter for a little bit I realized that is a great way to communicate fast and to a wide audience.  For example, as I mentioned in previous blog post, the use of twitter by historians (by using #twitterstorians) was so immense that it straight up shocked me. It was probably because I never had an image of a historian or professor using twitter as a social media platform bur it seems to be their favorite. To be honest though, I am not an active twitter user when it comes to making original posts, i mostly just like or retweet things that I like or find interesting. I have to challenge myself to be a more active twitter user with the community in order to develop my PLN and exp...

Hey everybody, This blog is talking the importance of having a personal websites as a teacher or for your own class and about my experiences at the Tech Sandbox. Teachers websites are not a thing I have encounter in my middle school or high school. I researched my schools and saw that they just followed the same template given to them by the Palm Beach School County. This meant that there was no teacher website that I could look at that came from one of my past schools. To be fair to them, most of that was done on Edline, which was our version of Canvas or Blackboard. Therefore I choose to pick ones that I found online. I found some teachers pages from Fairview Elementry School ( http://csdcomets.sharpschool.net/schools/fairview_elementary_school/teacher_classroom_pages ) The first page I was directed to was an overview of all the teachers in this school. The overall look is okay, it isn't as engaging as i want it to do but it is not as bad as some others that I saw before l...

Hey everybody, We are starting to work more with Diigo in class with GICAs and in class activities. In the beginning of the semester I had no idea what it was or what even "social bookmarking" meant. Know that we have had sometime to use the program, its a cool concept that I did not know was out there that people and educators can use. I like the idea of crowd sourcing through annotated websites or articles cause allows more groundwork to be cover when researching a topic in a group because more people are finding relevant resources for you to explore. The interface and how the program works can be fixed in my opinion. The program feels a bit clunky at times when I am trying to annotate it and that makes it feel like I cannot annotate it the way I want to. Overall I think social bookmarking is something I want to explored more in my career. Blogging is something I thought I would not like to do because to be honest, I never saw myself having a blog ever in my life. Thoug...

Hey everybody! Twitter. This semester I learned that this website and app can be used more than just a social media platform but a way to develop your resources and network with people in your field. When I started my twitter I wanted to follow some historians and museum workers to see what they are thinking and how they use to platform in their career. I was worried that I was not going to find anybody to follow and that it was not a thing for historians to use twitter, in general. Oh boy, I was so wrong. Historians love Twitter to an extent that I did not expect at all . It was really surprising and inspiring that all these historians where actively talking about their work and reaching out to other historians. The main way I saw all this was through #twitterstorians which took me to historians and history professors talking about their research, work, job openings, how to teach a class and many more topics. One thing I saw a lot was people asking for help either on finding boo...