Blog 8- Diigo, PowerPoint, and Professional Development

I learned that Diigo is great for sharing annotations on websites with other people. This would be incredibly useful for group research projects as a way to effectively share resources. It could also be helpful as an individual for doing research because you can annotate the information you want to use from each of your sources. All of your sources can be compiled with these annotations in one location. I'm not sure how much more I will be using Diigo, but it was really nice to learn about it.

Here is an image of Bloom's Taxonomy along with descriptions of each level. PowerPoint can be a source for notes for students to look back on to remember the learned information. Similar to that, for understanding, PowerPoints can help students understand because it is a compilation of lots of information. For apply, analyze, evaluate, create, having students students make a PowerPoint can help them achieve these things. By putting together the PowerPoint, it makes them decide what is important, they organize the information, and they get to create something that demonstrates their understanding.

As teachers, it is important to stay up to date with technology. I found a website for the Consumer Electronic Show by the Consumer Technology Association. It posts information about events regarding showcasing new things related to electronics and it also posts articles about current things. Even though this website isn't directed at education, it can still definitely apply to teachers. The best part about it is that it is constantly updating.