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Bloom's Taxonomy Power Point Presentation

Power points can be very helpful when sharing information with people.  When you are sharing information with an audience, having a visual aid like a power point can be a powerful tool to get your point across to people.  Bloom’s Taxonomy is a six level framework for categorizing educational goals.  They include create, evaluate, analyze, apply, understand, and remember.  Imagine you are creating a power point to help your second grade science class on the solar system.  For “remember” you put the key terms (planet names) bolded on each slide to help students remember them.  For “understand” you have a picture of planets in order showing the relative distances between them.  For “create” you can show a saying that helps students to memorize the order of the planets and have students create their own.  For “analyze” you can look into/show what it means to be a planet.  For “evaluate” you can compare what the necessary requirements of being a planet are and why and how Pluto is not one anymore.  For “apply” you have students create separate power points in groups to present to the class about each planet.  

Adaptive Technologies

Adaptive technologies are often used to help students with learning disabilities.  The American’s with Disabilities Act is a law that makes it illegal to discriminate against people with disabilities and a requirement to provide students with tools to assist them if they have a disability.  That is where Adaptive Technologies come into play.  Students with physical disabilities might need different ways of imputing and outputting while using computers.  Text to speech and speech to text software, magnified screens and brail key boards are examples ways to help these students.  When I was little I used recorded books as a tool to help me in overcoming my dyslexia.  It was very helpful in the process of me becoming a genius.  It might be hard to make young children understand why one student gets special treatment and not others.  Therefore, seeing as many of these can be beneficial for all the students.  

Website

I really enjoyed making my Weebly.  I feel like knowing how to make a good website will be helpful in my future career as a teacher.  I liked being able to pick out templates, create my own styled pages, and make an easily navigated website.  I feel really proud of my website.  I would not change a thing.