Blog Post #9: Creating a Website

Creating a Website Using WordPress

The process of creating an entire website was a new experience for me as I had never created a website prior to this semester.  A course that I am currently taking for my Educational Technology Certificate, Teaching with Digital Tools, required me to create my own website and to integrate Web 2.0 tools into said website.  I chose to create a digital portfolio to showcase my work from throughout my M.Ed. program at Rutgers University Graduate School of Education. My website can be viewed here: https://megancorlis.wordpress.com/.

Blog Entry #8: Creating Your CITEd Toolkit

Creating a Technology Toolkit

Having compiled a variety of different learning resources using CITEd.org to create my own Technology Professional Development Toolkit, I have found this to be very similar to a traditional social bookmarking site.  In my toolkit, I included resources that were of personal interest to me that I wanted to share with other education professionals as well.  I included a mix of digital resources teachers could use in the classroom, such as accessible books and the acrostic poem builder.  Additionally, I included some informational articles about using assistive technology and how to manage technology in your own classroom.  If I had chosen to send my toolkit to an administrator rather than to colleagues, I would have included more detailed descriptions of how I would use the different resources and why I chose to include them in my toolkit.  If I were to share my toolkit with a teacher who was reluctant to integrate technology into the classroom, I would include more articles about the importance of using technology in your classroom and the learning benefits.  I would also emphasize user-friendly websites and resources as well as include digital resources that make differentiation or data tracking much easier.

Blog Entry #7: Copyright and Fair Use

How Copyright and Fair Use Apply to Education

I will be examining a couple of resources which explore the manner in which copyright and fair use apply to teachers and students when using materials that are under copyright terms in the classroom.

Understanding "Fair Use" in a Digital World

Blog Entry #6: Working With Videos and Moving Images

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Moving Media Tutorial
Below is a video tutorial that I created using Windows Movie Maker of how to crochet a scalloped edging.

Blog Entry #5: Working With Digital Images

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Conveyance Exercise
Conveyance is "the delivery of meaning or mood from the observed to the observer" (Krause, 283).  I decided to explore typographic conveyance, which is a manner of creating type-based images that reflect the meaning of the word that they are portraying.  

I experimented using Pixlr Editor to create a series of text-based images based on the following six words: Education, Elementary, Learn, Grow, Love, and Teach.  In each image, I included different visuals that I identify with the word to incorporate those into the graphic.

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Audio Description of why I chose to incorporate images of an apple and pencils into this graphic. 

Blog Entry #4: Effective Graphic Design and Layout

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Updating Graphic Organizers
I was inspired to revisit some graphic organizers I had previously created to reevaluate my design and layout after reading White Space Is Not Your Enemy.  It is always a good idea to reevaluate past creations to improve upon them for the future.

Blog Entry #3: Rules of Design

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The piece of multimedia that I have chosen to critique is BuzzFeed's homepage.  I selected BuzzFeed because I enjoy reading BuzzFeed articles but usually link to them from another source and do not typically search from the homepage.  

BuzzFeed Homepage