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My first thoughts using diigo were that this is complicated and unnecessary. Once I began using it more and understanding its purpose, I really started to like it. I think diigo is very beneficial for collaborative work. It helps keep you and your group or partner on the same page. You are able to highlight the same areas like you would like to emphasize so that you understand the websites and readings the same way, I do like blogging. I think they are a modern way of doing discussion boards. I think it would be more beneficial if people read on commented on each other’s blogs to understand their different outlooks and things like that. But blogging overall helps me understand what blogging really is and to be more exposed to the internet in classroom settings. A web 2.0 tool that I would like to use in the classroom are smartphones. The possibilities are endless for these devices. A lot can be done from a cellphone that can be done on a computer in a more modern...

I do not personally use twitter. However, I have used it for multiple classes throughout my education at Florida State. I have been interacting with fellow classmates, news channels that tell me current events, celebrity accounts, and some funny accounts. I have found that twitter is a good social media platform that combines education and personal life. It it also a great way to keep up with current events. Even our President tweets! I am a believer in "digital divide" because I have experienced it personally in my own classes. I have noticed that some people are less familiar with some forms of technology than I, or other students. This can create a divide in the classroom. It can be difficult to get all the students on the same page if this divide is present. Teachers that experience this in their classroom should thoroughly explain what is expected of their students so they can review these skills on their own time. An academic software I might want to use in my classro...

I believe the ELA technology standards are a great educational foundation to any student. These skills are important to teach to students early on at a basic level, as well as later in their lives as their education gets more specific to their job fields of interest. These English Language Arts skills have been taught at an early age in order to develop the fundamentals of reading, writing, speaking, and understanding language and grammar as a whole. Many basic technology learning standards I am very comfortable with/teaching. I have advanced knowledge about basic Microsoft office skills. I am also very comfortable in teaching writing in terms of sentence, paragraph, and essay structure. I would have some difficulty understanding and teaching more advanced technology in which I have never worked with before such as a smart board. In the CPALMS Educator Toolkit, I notice that their is a resource to keep lesson plans organized. I think this resource would be very useful because I can re...