Blog Journal #8- diigo, Powerpoint & Teacher Professional Development

Happy Tuesday! We recently completed our last GICA with Diigo so, I'd like to discuss Diigo one last time. Before this class, I had not known about or been exposed to Diigo. Now, I would say I am well-versed with it. The new skills I have learned from Diigo are screenshotting a PDF, adding a sticky note to a PDF and posting an annotation in the group. I could use this application as a teacher in many ways. I could use it to read personal material I enjoy and leave notes on my favorite parts. I could also use to for coworkers when we have a meeting using an online document.

The next thing I'd like to discuss is how we can use Power Point in the classroom, specifically with Bloom's Taxonomy. The levels of this are remember, understand, apply, analyze, evaluate and create. Power Point can be used to help students learn that are each of these levels. For example, let's pretend we are teaching a class about adding numbers. Students that are trying to remember and understand addition can use images in a Power Point to stimulate their memory and comprehension of addition. For student trying to apply addition, we could use a slide with "2 + 2" for them to give the answer. To analyze and evaluate, we can put a wrong answer and have the student write in why this is incorrect. Finally, a student could create their own slide with an original addition problem.

Lastly, just like we've learned about Diigo and Power Point, teachers must learn and keep up with all technologies for their own professional benefit. This helps them create good lesson plans, educate their students and innovate new technologies. A website that helps to do this is Twitter. Twitter is a social media platform we have used in class! It can be used for this purpose because it specifically focuses on what is trending, as shown in the picture below.

Link: Twitter