#7 Bloom, Powerpoints, Web Design, and much more

Blooms taxonomy includes six levels, create, evaluate, analyze, apply, understand, and remember. These things are important to keep in mind when teaching a lesson and can be implemented in a lesson. For example say a teacher was teaching a lesson in 1st grade history on Martin Luther King Jr. and created a powerpoint for her students. First she would have to present the information to help the students create a basis for knowledge in their mind by showing pictures of Dr. King, the march on Washington, and a video of his speeches to make the powerpoint interactive. The powerpoint should then go deeper into the information to help her students evaluate the history by giving facts about his life and his works. After she should add a thought provoking question that allows the kids to analyze the information. The next question she asks should force the kids to apply the information to their own lives (ex: how does Martin Luther King Jr. affect our lives today?). To check the students understanding she could include a short quiz at the end of the powerpoint to see if the students remember the information that was given to them. If you keep Bloom's Taxonomy in mind while making a powerpoint, it will help the students learn and grow as learners.

Adaptive technologies are very important when it comes to supporting learners. Not everyone can just go to a computer and have all of the capabilities to operate it. There is many options for people who need accessibilities such as joysticks instead of mouses, brail printers, recorded books, and word programs that allow students to complete assignments without writing or typing. These are just a few of the awesome adaptive technologies out there. In my high school there was a girl a few years younger than me that was blind. All of her papers and tests had to be printed by a brail printer so she could read them. Some possible challenges that could come from using adaptive technologies is having the resources to even obtain them and also making sure that I implement them for students who need them.

I have never really made a website before so doing that was a cool experience in itself. But I really enjoyed how flexible Weebly was and the many things you could do from this site. Getting the format exactly how I wanted posed a little bit of a problem but I worked it out in the end. I also forgot to put a button to one of my pages on the home page so I would like to fix that and improve in that way, This will be a very useful tool to have one day when I am a teacher and need to make a website for my class.

Check it out: msgaineysclass.weebly.com