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Blog Post #7

 It was honestly kind of hard to find a school website that has teacher pages on it. My elementary and high schools didn't have them, and I couldn't find any schools in the area with it either. I had to specifically search for schools with teacher pages to find one ( https://mhs.floydboe.net/academics/teacher-websites ), and it's a high school in Georgia. They included information about who they are, where they're from, and how they can be contacted. At my K-8 school, we used Schoology; this is an app that has class pages where teachers can post announcements, resources, and assignments we were working on. However, these pages can only be accessed by logging in through student or parent accounts. Being a kindergarten teacher, I don't think I would want to use any apps or websites that my students would need to make an account or work on themselves. However, I could use stuff as a teacher leading the class. When I was in elementary school, my teachers would use GoNoo...

Blog Post #6

I  really  enjoyed  getting to visit  Tech Sandbox last week.   I learned that  there's   a lot of  different  technology that's  used in education that I didn't know existed.   There were  these  tools that worked like headbands  that read  your brain activity.  There was also a counting board that looked really fun, but I didn't get the chance to use it while we were there.  Apparently,  a lot  of these tools are used  for  athletes to test their reaction time,  and that was  a really cool concept  to me .   I  don't  know  if  there are  any of these  that I  would  use in  my future  classroom since I want to teach kindergarten , but they're still  really neat   tools . One standard that includes technology is  SC.8.CO.1.2 - Create a collaborative project utilizing an online digital application ....