Twitter, Twitter, Twitter...Nope, it still sucks. I tried following some interesting people, history stuff from teachers and researchers. Still don't like it. Don't like the notifications, don't like the truncated content, don't like the comments and constant retweeting and hashtags. It's a pox on the face of humanity and needs to die. Seriously, I see the use, I just really, really dislike most social media, particularly Twitter. I hate what it is doing to people in general, and the less that people use it, the better off we'll be. Until this class, I had completely cut myself off from social media for about a year and didn't miss it a bit. So, if I've learned anything, it's that social media is definitely not my thing, and I will be glad when I'm not forced to participate in it.
The website design was simple and pretty basic. The Weebly site is pretty handy for setting one up without learning to actually code, which is something I've always wanted to do, but never actually bothered to learn. Since most people won't take the time to learn code, it doesn't get much better than this. Drag and drop is something that is simple enough for most anyone to do, and creating something that looks at least halfway decent is within anyone's reach. The easiest way to improve it next time would just be to spend more time on it. This was kind of at the bottom of my priority list this week, so it didn't get much time devoted to it. If I use it in the future, I will take more time to set up something much more interesting looking, but it would help to actually be creating it for a class so I could post actual content instead of having to make everything up. It would be simple to use in the future if I needed to create a site for an actual class of mine. Remembering to keep it updated is the problem I'd struggle with, as do most teachers who have websites from what I've seen.
Here are a link and screenshot of my site:
Website
Assistive technologies are technological items or programs that assistive people who have some difficulty in accessing materials in a classroom. It can be a visual or hearing impairment, or a learning disability, basically anything that impairs their ability to use or obtain the information you are trying to teach. They perform a wide variety of functions with the singular goal of enabling all children to participate regardless of their disability. My fiancee has used some of these items when she was teaching in an elementary school computer lab. They had various items that were mentioned in the article, substitutes for the mice, screen magnifiers, and various other items that ensure that all students would be able to perform the tasks that were required on the computers. She said the main difficulty in using the equipment for her in the lower grades anyway, was simply determining who needed what. She was in a low-SES school, and many of the children had issues that were undiagnosed, so figuring out who needed help, and then figuring out exactly how to help them was the main problem. Another issue she had was that many of the students who needed help, could not effectively communicate what their problems were. It made it a challenge to assist them in getting the help they needed.
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