EME2040 Blog

 I really enjoyed making my survey. I made it on a topic I find interesting which is phone usage in relation to insecurity/mental health. As a teacher (specifically an elementary school teacher), I would like to use surveys in my class to get a better understanding of the population of my students. As someone who is passionate about English class, I would like to ask them questions such as: how often do you read? How often do you write? Do you enjoy reading? I would ask them these types of questions to get a better understanding of where they are in terms of English and how I can enhance their skills. Upon reviewing my classmates' blog posts, I found it interesting how each person is dealing with distance learning. Personally, my experience with it has been good. I feel like I have more freedom and more time to do things I like since I am not having to take a bus to and from campus multiple times a day (very time consuming!). I found that some people agreed with me, but I also noti

 Distance learning has had both highlights and drawbacks. In some senses, it builds responsibility in students seeing as we are on our own for the most part and we have to be checking for due dates and updates rather than having our professors tell them to us. I will also admit - it's pretty nice to be able to go to class in pajamas! The drawbacks of distance learning are the fact that it is easy to get distracted when you are on your computer all day. Sometimes it can be hard to focus, and I've often heard that this decreases students' motivation. When I am a teacher, if I have to use distance learning, I can help improve the experience by checking up on my students weekly in order to get a feel for where they are at mentally so that they stay on track with assignments. OER are learning and research materials that are available to the public. This is important because it allows education to be accessible to all. Additionally, it allows one to build a class without having t

I enjoyed working on the Web Design assignment. It was really neat to be able to add my own touches and watch it all come together in the end as one cohesive website. What I liked most about it (and wasn't aware of previously) was that web design has a lot of room for individual creativity. It allows the creator to express themselves through writing, graphics, and design. In the future, I will be able to use my skills to better develop a teacher website. Not only will I go into it with the understanding that it is a creative process in general, but I will also be able to go into it knowing what a teacher website should include.  http://ameliaskindergartenclass.weebly.com In addition to Web Design, I enjoyed learning more about Diigo. At first, I thought that Diigo was only used as a collaborative way to bookmark websites. Last week however, I learned that it can also be used as a discussion-forum type tool in which the instructor poses a question or prompt and the students can shar