I am lost in tabs
Wait, where did that page go now?
Many tabs open.
We are in week 3 now and the tabs on my browser just keep accumulating – it really is a hide and seek game to find what I was JUST looking at (I am looking at getting a second monitor for my work space in the hopes that the back and forth clicking of tabs will ease up).
Things are looking up, though! In terms of this course, at least. I am getting a handle on all the new tools that we’ve been shown and have grown to have an appreciation for most of them. The introduction of Trello this week has been my favorite tool. As someone who loves post-it notes and lists galore, this is an excellent tool to keep an ongoing to-do list for this class and I can definitely see myself using this site in the future.
In my 1-1 assessment with Luke, he was talking about the benefits of using Trello in my future classroom and how it can be a good way to keep tabs on kids and how they are progressing in their assignments. He also described it as a good tool to give students assistance by adding onto their to-do list and having the ability to post comments for reminders or praise. I am excited to try out some of these tools in my future classroom when the time comes.
We also talked a bit about copyright this week and the use of it within education. I learned about Creative Commons and how that can benefit educators by opening up so many resources due to different types of copyright laws. Creative Commons allows someone to create something and share it with others under certain conditions. Rather than someone asking the creator for permission, they only need to use the content with the conditions set by the creator in mind. A very handy short video by McLaughlin Library found on this website: https://www.theedublogger.com/copyright-fair-use-and-creative-commons/#What-Is-Creative-Commons really helped me to understand it. This is so important in creating readily available content to both teachers and students.
