Blog Post #7

Every student requires a certain strategy for the most efficient way of learning, and as technology progresses and advances we find more and more its usefulness in the classroom. My experience this semester has involved a lot of information regarding persons with disabilities, adaptive, assistive and accessible technologies so I have been quite familiar with the concept now that its time our class started learning it. While I personally do not know anyone who requires such technology, I have been in contact with it all semester. I learned all about special keyboards and mouses, and computer programs that make work and learning more accessible for persons with disabilities such as Jaws or Screenreader. This technology is not only useful, but vital to individuals who require them. The biggest issue in the classroom with this technology is that it slows down the pace of the class which can hinder those who are eager to get ahead in the lesson. A strategy needs to be developed to fit the needs of both students with disabilities and students without them.

Oh god, this web page assignment. I really did not enjoy this one, it was monotonous and really difficult to come up with fictional information to put on there, adding links and images was just repetitive and I cannot imagine ever using weebly or wix for myself in any setting whatsoever. I had to make a list, for what? I will never know. Add fictional events? Sure, i guess, overall I felt like i was forcing an assignment out and took no enjoyment in it. I did not learn anything, I have used wix in the past for school projects and this was essentially the same assignment except less strict on the guidelines and purpose. I do not have any recommendations to fix this assignment either, I say just scratch it from the lesson plan. At any rate, here's my website in all its hideous glory.

http://thisassigmentugh.weebly.com/

As far as Diigo goes? Not sure. Not my style of site, I am sure it would be great for a group research project but I haven't found any practical uses really. But even then, usually my group members and I use google docs or slides for communication and tend to independently research our own material rather than go through the trouble of sending it to a project member for them to review before deciding on its validity. anyways thats all, Have a good Spring Break y'all!