Personal Technology Project

Prezi is a technology that is a web-based software which allows you to create presentations online. Not only can you create you presentations online, you can also share them and collaborate with others and your presentations save right there on your account. Prezi has a lot of features to offer depending on which plan you choose to purchase. Compared to Power Point, Prezi is highly favored by the majority of people who use these sorts of technology. I would recommend that students create an account and use Prezi for their presentations for school work as well as teachers using it for lectures. Prezi has been seen to be more engaging than just regular Power Points so by using Prezi the audience or students would be more likely to be more engaged in what is being presented.

Interactive Poster

By completing all of these assignments dealing with diversity in the world, it has really broadened my outlook on how much diversity is in our world. It has allowed me to look more into how differently a lot of different people get treated because someone sees them different as themselves. Almost everything that we deal with throughout a day has something to do with diversity in someway and I cannot fathom what it must be like to get mistreated everyday because of something they were born into and cant change to fit in. Although diversity causes many problems in our world I feel like it is something that we are going to have to continue to live with because of how everyone in the world has their opinions about everything and everyone.

Mind-Mup

Before doing this assignment I seen diversity as something that was going on in politics and throughout our society with people who does not want to evolve or come to realization that the times are changing. I have seen it a lot recently but it has been all over the news and it is also something I do not really take part in but I know it is there. Once I completed this assignment it made me realize that diversity can have a lot of effects in the classroom. I guess where I do not see a lot of situations that would grab my attention in the classroom here with diversity, I did not realize that it was such a thing that teachers needed to be aware of.

Screen Cast

This was my first time using Screencastomatic and I found it to be pretty simple. Usually websites like these are hard to work around and figure out how to get everything to work and then get it to save correctly but this was one website I found fairly easy to work with. I think having students use this in the classroom more often could be very beneficial. Students would have no problem working this website and creating their own voice recordings or even webcam videos for class. It is simple to work and it basically lays everything out for you in the short introduction video you can watch before creating your own. I think this would be a fun way for kids do have to do assignments in the classroom and it could also benefit them by allowing them to learn new things on a new site without the hassle and stress of it being too complicated to figure out.

Digital Citizenship Digital Storytelling

Digital Storytelling can be very beneficial within the classroom because in order to create the digital story, you have to have knowledge about the topic you are creating your video on. Having students create a digital story will lead them to do research on a specific topic so they will be able to create a detailed story without putting a ton of words on each slide. Also, having to say the information out loud as if you are telling someone, will help you retain and understand it better than just jotting it down on each slide. Having to be able to "story tell" and create and visual video really made me research into all the details of privacy. After going through the process of creating and publishing my digital story and having to do the research for the topic I was given, I feel like having the students to do this in the classroom would be very beneficial and interesting and would keep the students interested more than if they were just taking notes in class.

Works Cited

“Privacy.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 17 Sept. 2017, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privacy. Accessed 17 Sept. 2017.

“7 Powerful Ways to Maintain Your Privacy and Integrity Online.” Collective Evolution, 26 Aug. 2013, www.collective-evolution.com/2013/06/13/7-powerful-ways-to-maintain-your-privacy-and-integrity-online/.

University, Santa Clara. “Why We Care about Privacy.” Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, www.scu.edu/ethics/focus-areas/internet-ethics/resources/why-we-care-about-privacy/.

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22 Sep. 2017

Digital Citizenship and Flaming

Flaming is when things are said behind a computer screen that would not be said to someone face to face. I knew that flaming was a thing and happened often, but I did not know that it was actually called "Flaming." Throughout my years of having a computer and being able to communicate with people by things like instant messengers, I have never been one to say things behind a computer screen that I would not say to their face. Of course, I text people and communicate via technology but I am one who would rather just have conversations face to face. By talking to someone who is literally right in front of you is so much easier when it comes to trying to explain something and getting to see the person's reaction instead of guessing when communicating behind a screen. Just like stated in the article, there is so many times that things that are being said behind a computer screen get misunderstood often, where as when talking face to face how you are trying to say something is clear and the other person knows the tone you are using when talking to them. Not only is it easier to fully comprehend what the other person is saying and how they are saying it, but it is so much easier to actually be able to feel the emotions/feelings between one another when talking in person. Knowing more of what I thought I already knew a lot about will change my outlook on communicating behind a screen permanently. I will also be sure to spread the knowledge of flaming to people around me who do not often communicate face to face. I have always been cautious when it comes to talking to people on the internet because more often than realized, people are not really who they say they are when hiding behind a screen. So I will defiantly make sure my friends are aware of this and how serious it is even though people don't not see it as being as serious and it really can be.

MI Theory and Technology

What some people may not put a lot of thought into is that the connection between your feelings on the topic you are being taught or learning about. If you are learning about something that does not interest you in any sense then you are not going to put your all into paying attention and learning about the topic. When not interested in the topic then you are not going to give the teacher or the material your full attention, without the material interesting you then you are not going to care if you understand the material or not. Usually when you don't care too much for what is being taught, then it tends to be more difficult to understand and be tested on because of the lack of interest whereas if you do find it interesting them it grabs your attention and you find it less difficult to grasp the concept. When it is something that you have more emotion in learning in more depth about then you put forth more effort and attention to understand the material in a more open-minded and enjoyable way (Carlson-Pickering).
The MI Theory correlates with this because not everyone learns the same things, the same exact way. Every child has a different learning style and they absorb information in so many different ways, kids grasp material all sorts of ways. This is why classroom material shouldn't be taught in just one specific way, it wouldn't be fair to teach it in certain way when half of the children are not making any progress on learning. Being able to teach the children in many different ways would be more likely to allow more of them to understand what is being taught and learning more material that is important and being able to apply the material when asked or needed (Changing).
Reading and Chemistry is my absolute least favorite topic when it comes to learning. I learn best by movement (Assessment)  and within those two topics, movement isn't really the ideal way to teach wither of those. By using technology it could possible allow me to use interacting tools or demonstrations to help me find those topics more interesting and easier to understand. Instead of sitting in the classroom and being lectured all of this different equations or just being stuck having to read material, I could use technology to broaden my views on this topics by making it more interacting.
In today's world there are so many things that people still don't understand and I believe that that is why MI Theory is important in our society because there is so many different ways to learn and people should be able to experience those in order to be able to understand and learn more things in our time and technology. Teaching many different ways to meet the needs of more than one learning style is the perfect example for "No child left behind." Therefore, using the MI Theory will have the chance to broaden the learning horizon for many more people in the world.

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Assessment: Find Your Strengths! (n.d.). Retrieved September 10, 2017, from http://www.literacynet.org/mi/assessment/cgi-bin/results.cgi

W. (2012, November 15). Changing Education Paradigms By Sir Ken Robinson - February 2012. Retrieved September 10, 2017, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=068Xv-J7fEw