ms.rachel's blog

 Over the course of the semester my personal learning network (PLN) has grown substantially. At the beginning of this class, my PLN consisted of a few professors, classmates, and previous classes I had taken in college. However, now my PLN includes a wider range of connections such as peers, professors, and guidance counsellors, resources such as online teaching social media pages and websites for teachers. I have also learned how to utilize many programs such as word, padlet, blogger, bit.ly for teaching. I now engage with a more professional community of educators and fellow students. My PLN has become more intentional and diverse which will help me in my future career.      As a future second grade teacher I see data collection tools such as Qualtrics or Google forms as a valuable tool for improving instruction and learning. These tools would allow me to gain information on understanding, classroom dynamics, and parent communication. An example of using these tool...

  The new skills I acquired by working on the web design assignment are organization of a website, the creation of a website, different uses for a website, and clearly providing information about school related activities in one place. I learned how to set up a website so that it was efficiently and easily accessible, and each page contain relevant information. I had to use design principles to make the website, appealing, easy to interpret, and symmetrical/proportionate. I used the same fonts throughout the website. I made the pictures lineup and be appealing to the eye so that everything looked centered. I didn’t overcrowd information on one page so that looking at the website wasn’t confusing. I thought it was cool to design a website, but I think the platform I used was a bit confusing and glitchy. I also couldn’t really figure out how to publish my page at first . This is definitely a helpful assignment that I will use whenever I have my own classroom. in my classroom, I could...