#7: Assistive Technolgies, Web Page Design, and Diigo

#1: Assistive technologies are any "equipment or products used to increase, maintain, or improve functional capabilities of a child with a disability". These types of technologies are used to help disabled people use computing equipment. In the podcast, it tells us that they will use an input/output device to more effectively use different types of software. I have not known anymore to use these kinds of assistive technologies, but I can see how helpful these are to people that actually do use these. In my classroom, if these technologies were used, I believe I wouldn't know how to work with them very well. I know I would need to take a class or watch a video on how to use these kinds of technologies to be able to show my students how to use them effectively.

#2: While working on the Web Page Design assignment, I found myself very frustrated. I have worked with the same kind of software that is called Wix, and I believe their format is so much easier to figure out the weebly. I found out new ways to search things like pictures, but it was very difficult to maneuver where my image was placed and the format it was placed in. Maybe next time, a class set aside just to teach us how to change and edit things would help a lot. In the future, I could use this assignment to help me build my real class website, and help me know what parents and students are actually looking for when they look up the class page. http://sloaneme2040.weebly.com/

#3: Diigo is honestly a really cool website where everyone in your class could be on the same page. I believe that Diigo helps students like me out everything in one place, and combine all the like terms and use them to our advantage. When you are on a team, you always want everyone together a looking at everything from different angles to get the best outcome. With Diigo, this can happen and in the classroom, this is one of the most important things to happen too.