emma’s little corner

 A lot of the skills I acquired were mostly focused around digital design. This is a skillset that I've felt was severely undeveloped and became more worked through this assignment. This included inserting images, formatting text with images and diagrams, and trying to figure our colors and fonts for the website. I also got some more practice using links and hyperlinks, as well as continuing to learn how to copyright my work. I think these skills will be very useful in the future when I'm developing my writing portfolio as well as planning out my website for when I teach. I think one way I'd incorporate QR codes within my lessons would be by creating activities. For example, each group of students would start on one QR code, and each QR code scans into a game of mastery for historical analysis skills and/or historical terms. Once the group has won this game, they advance to the next directed QR code. The first group to complete all the games would win. This would be a delib...

 "Me when I'm trying to do assignments and all of my professors post an essay assignment."

 I've had a relatively limited experience with actually blogging. I blogged anonymously on tumblr with a false name and changed locations so I wouldn't be tracked or doxed (someone finding my location and then trying to find me in real life). Before I deleted Instagram in December of 2023 (I was at one of the worst lows in my lifetime, and social media was only feeding that monster), I did blog a little bit about my day to day life. However, most all of my social media accounts have been privatized so only those I wish to see me could see me. I now have a TikTok that is public that I intend to blog on, but it's not an increasing focus in my life at it's current rate. I enjoy blogging because I think it's fun to build community with people you otherwise may never have met. However, to be a healthy blogger and consumer, you have to develop a thick skin. One reason for this assertion is that, unfortunately, many people don't like seeing others be happy, and public ...

 The standard that I chose to focus on was standard SS.912.S.1.8, which covers identifying, evaluating, and correctly using technology to interpret and understand information about cultural life in world cultures, both now and before. This standard entails the idea that students must be able to sort through historical information via its validity using technological tools and skills. Students would have to, for example, know how to find historical documents in appropriate sites that are reputable, and be able to distinguish biased analysis and presentation. Students would be taught how to appropriately source information that they found and describe it without plagiarizing another scholar's interpretation. I think I would be capable of implementing this standard into my classroom, because I myself have worked on this skill for so long throughout my various historical studies and classes. Educating students on bias and filters is something that can be tricky at first, but with repet...

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 I think that the way in which I could encounter copyright issues could be, as a history teacher, when I'm pulling text from a textbook or a book written by a historian. I would have to be very careful about how much I photocopy to use in demonstrations and examples for my students, so that I would not violate the terms of Fair Use. I was a little familiar with copyright and the Fair Use guidelines before reading, but I didn't know that there were both official and unofficial ways of copyrighting something. As a creative writer who posted online, I understood enough to put a copyright symbol on my essays, as well as designating the work as my own original piece. It's very liberating that this form of copywriting your work is respected, and could even be more legally fortified with the Creative Commons license. Decreased productivity is one of the most common and present Technology Implementation Issues I've encountered, both as a student and as an aspiring educator. Soc...