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     When working on Project 5, I have acquired the skill of making buttons in PowerPoint, which I did not know you could do. I also utilized my PLN to become inspired and find a theme for my PowerPoint. I took a trip to Pinterest and searched for fun games that I thought I may be able to put my own spin on and make an interactive PowerPoint out of it. I found the idea of Roll a Story through a Pinterest post about a game where students would roll the dice and answer questions about a story, based on the number they received. I decided to make it more fit for a PowerPoint by flipping the idea around and creating stories based on the roll of a dice. I liked that this assignment gave me a lot of creative freedoms and had few limits compared to the other projects, but not all of them can work like that. I did not enjoy having to make it as long as I did, but it was not much of a hassle and overall was a fun project. Here is an sample slide of my project:     When reading through my classm
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Just Something to Laugh At...

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Funny Learning Meme

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 I don't know about you, but this is how I feel when anything on Canvas is graded...
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Blog Post 9

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      EME2040 has been an overall good experience for me this semester. I have enjoyed the open environment and the interactive portions of class that allow me to learn new tools as well as speak out when I need help. I have enjoyed doing the projects so far, it has helped me to manage my time better and consider different angles of education, online and in person, and how I can run a classroom as a teacher. Sometimes, there are times when this class has been a struggle for me or there were times where it was not as enjoyable. There were times when the class became too much or there were lots of different assignments, I needed to do all at once but felt that I did not have time for. I have sat down to do my projects and looked and found I had three or four other smaller tasks I was supposed to complete at that time too. It became a little overwhelming to do all of these projects on top of my classes as well. However, this did not always outweigh my good experience with the class, and I
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Blog Post 8

 When creating the website, I learned how to insert and link a calendar to a webpage and apply different designs to a website. When designing my website, I wanted to use text colors that contrasted yet still complemented the colors I used in the background of my different pages. Repeating the types of text, I used for the body and heading helped my viewers to automatically know which sections were headers and which sections were the information based on how the text was formatted. Here is my website:  Home (weebly.com) . It clearly portrays my design choices and how everything came together.     Through my use of Diigo, I learned how to insert a quick function into my toolbar which let me send links and bookmark sites easier than I had known too before. In my career as an educator, I could use Diigo to share resources with my colleagues on a shared group through Diigo, letting me send the source to all teachers and giving a description so that they could access it if they felt they nee
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Blog Post 7

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 When looking at this school's different teacher websites, I recognized that each website had a homepage that provided parents and those who visit with a brief description of what was happening in the class as well as a weekly or monthly planner. This helps keep parents and guardians up to date on the things happening in class and what their child should be doing. The amount of information provided usually varied by teacher, but each had the plan for the week on what was happening or what they were teaching as well as how to contact them. The website  provides different links to the different teacher websites, which makes it easier for parents to find I believe.      In my future career, I definitely could see myself using a website to keep the people I work with involved and up to date on my work and the weekly plans. Using Weebly I can make my own website for parents. I also picture myself using Edpuzzle with my students, being able to show the video and have the students take a
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Blog Post 6

 I have very few experiences with Diigo, but it has overall been a pretty pleasant and smooth experience. Thought it took some time to add the extension to my computer, being able to bookmark and share my posts through Diigo has been really easy to navigate and use whenever I needed it. It does however seem like one of the weirder softwares I have used. I am curious to see the context in which we would use Diigo in a regular classroom because I do believe it is a productive program, just want to see where else it may apply to.     I have really enjoyed blogging so far. It has helped to reflect on the different tasks I have completed in this class and really realize the value behind the work I am doing. I do not particularly have something I do not enjoy about blogging, I have found it to be fairly easy to accomplish and has helped to document the things I have done so far. Through blogging, I have learned how far I really have come in this class. Though I did have some experience with
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