July's World

  It Was the Best of Times It Was the Worst of Times! Image Source: Giphy.com           When I saw the workload of assignments and due dates I was feeling overwhelmed even before doing the first assignment, even before looking at the first assignment I should say! I thought wow remote learning plus all this work is too much but I did the first assignment and it was not bad at all. It was actually FUN! I had not done a blog in years and talking about my life and my family was actually really exciting. This class was very educational and I really liked that it was us learning and creating content as opposed to just reading about it. I learned so much in such a short amount of time. I didn't even know how to add a hyperlink before this class. As a special education teacher that pushes into classrooms I had not really used technology because I would mostly read books with students and go over comprehension questions and assisted them with worksheets as I was there only for 1 period. Ne

Image Source: VirtualLibrary.info Are All Tattoos Permanent?         A few years ago tattoos were said to be permanent but now with new medical technology we know that is not the case as there is laser tattoo removal. If you regret a certain tattoo, you can have it removed with a few laser removal sessions. Did you know that there is a different type of tattoo that is digital and not easily removed and can be accessed around the world wide web? This digital tattoo also known as  personal data mine are  all the information we post online.  The photos we share, the comments we write, the videos we 'like' all say something about us to other people. Even if we delete them, they may still be out there – saved and shared by others, or even kept by the site or app itself.  What Do My Digital Tattoos Look Like      You would think that having a unique name like July Miranda would be easy to search information online and find my digital tattoos but with just my luck there is a famous w

     To Tweet or Not to Tweet? That is the Question         I started my Twitter account @julya60608 back in 2009! Yikes! I created it because that's what everybody was doing at the time. I used it for about a day or two and realized it was not my cup of tea. There was so much that goes with Tweeting that I felt it took too much of my time and I did not feel like I wanted to put the time and effort to learn everything that goes with it. I thought of it more of a platform to argue with people as opposed to learn from so I would log in once in a while to argue about politics in the past year since we were all in quarantine. I just learned to retweet not too long ago so I'm still learning about hashtags and twitter chats. I consider myself very tech savvy but when it comes to Twitter usage I am an amateur.                                                                  Image Source: Personal Twitter         Professional Learning Network          With this technology class we had

  Web 2.0/Digital Tools         Web 2.0 tools  are free  digital  programs that can be used for creating and sharing student-generated projects. They are interactive, multi-purpose, easy-to-use  digital  platforms that encourage students to collaborate with each other or create and share individualized response products. These tools are meant to allow users to go beyond just receiving information. This article goes in depth regarding the use of Web 2.0 to engage learners and how useful they are for our students.                                                                                                 Image Source: blogspot         Kahoot!                                                                             Image Source: Optionsforlearning         Kahoot is a tool for using technology to administer quizzes, discussions or surveys. It is a game based classroom response system played by the whole class in real time. Multiple-choice questions are projected on the screen.

           Did you know that teenagers using Facebook probably means that they are more than likely to be low-income?! I did not know this either, but according to the Pew Research Center (2018)  teens who use Facebook as their main form of social media are more likely living in a household with an income less than $35,000/year. Generation X and millennials have used Facebook evenly regularly regardless of their income therefore I found teen usage and income connection very surprising. Teens in households with incomes over $75,000/year are more likely to use Snapchat, Instagram and YouTube as their main forms of social media.                                                             Image Source: Pew Research Center         This research went more in detail and found that female teens are more than likely to use Snapchat as their main form of social media whereas boys are more than likely to use YouTube as their form of social media. Social Media for teens also do not revolve aroun

 Who remembers sitting at their desk and remembering every single word their teacher was saying? The answer to this question is more than likely that NOBODY remembers much of what they learned in school while they were at their desks listening to their teacher. The reason for this is that we only learn twenty percent of what we hear. But chances are that you remember a specific thing from school if you were engaged in the lesson. I for once remember when I was in ESL class we were in groups and we had to each come up with a story using our words of the week and act out the story. The reason that I remember words from my ESL class and not much from reading class is because I was Actively Learning. Active Learning is a method of instruction that involves actively engaging students with the course material through discussions, problem solving, case studies, role plays and other methods.  An Example of Active Learning  In this blog active learning is shown by challenging students in grad