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 needed it. This program would also allow me to do the same with my students, providing them with interesting resources they could use in class. Overall, it would give me the ability to communicate needed sources to my coworker and students and make sure everyone has resources to solve their problems or answer their questions.

    Teachers in schools often times are tasked with making sure their students interact with technology and are responsible for engaging them with different software and programs in school. This can become stressful for some teachers when asked to do tasks that they do not understand how to conduct themselves. In order to prevent this, professional development and meetings that educate the teachers on how to interact with technology through peer coaching and just teaching of the tech in general. Teachers need time to fiddle with and better understand the programs that they are implementing on their students. In order to better keep up with technological advances, educators could use sites such as 5 Major Technology Trends in Education in 2023 - KeenEthics that keeps teachers up to date on the different technology trends of the year and will continue to update throughout the year in order to have the most recent trends present.