EME2040 Alexander Amenta Blog

http://prezi.com/q5grybk0fxqi/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy For my ILP I decided to do a Prezi about Teacher Burnout. A topic I was familiar with but didn't realize the amount of research that was done on the subject and how entrenched we are as humans to the hormonal process of stress. Well as it turns out teaching as a profession is one of the most psychologically demanding profession but receives little regard for it's inherently taxing career style, because of this few people take into account the physical and mental consequences that the high stress of teaching could bring about on oneself. So I decided to do an interactive Prezi that informs anyone about how the reality of teacher burnout on our health and how we can combat these effects.

Some web 2.0 technologies that are very influential in the classroom are at home course management sites such as canvas for FSU. It allows students to interact with the web in a way that will allow them to share information with their institutions like submitting their homework, discussion posts, and even legal documents they need to register for school. The possibility for technology like Canvas and online portals remove needless bureaucracy or making one go out of their way to submit a document that could be easily uploaded to Canvas. Facebook can even be used as web 2.0 tool it would be interesting to have students make sarcastic facebook profiles of literary figures that were still factually based. Then I can have them post things and make them interact in character to make them learn through personification. This is an example of WEb 2.0 technology because it allows a constant, interactive exchange of information between two people across the net. I believe the biggest advance

In my early experience with Twitter I had a lot of trouble figuring out how to even tweet myself, and how to get my hashtags to function. But after the quick learning curve, I found it was easy to add other people and follow people who had interesting things to say related to education. I have been following many organizations and figures who post helpful examples of how we as educators can overcome boundaries such as low SES with teaching strategies etc. The digital divide is an unfortunate occurrence when Low SES students don't have access to many of the technologies we take for granted, like an up to date home computer, internet access, word processing knowledge or license ownership etc. As a privileged tech user, it's easy to assume that everyone has a home computer with which they look up things to help them learn, and submit assignments online. However, due to the fact that average American doesn't have $500 emergency cash, Low SES students don't have surplus mo

The first high-quality website I'll be evaluating is The Gutenberg Project . It's a giant archive of e-books that are proofread and uploaded by a team of accredited volunteers. It's a great way for budding readers to gain access to a world of old literature and even some newer ones. As far as the Currency of the website, there is a news section that has a headline about how Project Gutenberg supports Net neutrality, and how The Public domain will Grow again in 2019. The Relevance  of Project Gutenberg is apparent the website is old school but bare bones and intuitive due to the simple side banner with clearly stated categories. The information in these books may be a little advanced for some high school students, however, the t op 100 books section are all popular books that pop up in various classrooms. The Gutenberg Project is a very authoritative source as it's backed by the federal government, through a copyright that according to its news section is growing for 2

The one ELA standard I feel prepared to teach my students is: "Summarize the points a speaker or media source makes and explain how each claim is unsupported by reasons and identify or analyze any logical fallacies." As a student editor and being published several times myself I am fully aware of how to write in a way that is logically sound no matter how it is interpreted. I have extensive experience helping other students write with this factual authority, and believe I can teach students the same. One ELA standard I might have trouble implementing is.: "Evaluate advantages of medium to present a topic, (ex. print, digital text, video, multimedia)." Because I have a fairly biased experience with which mediums I would use (mainly digital) I would mostly encourage students to do the same. I was surprised how well the Newsletter turned out, I thought I would need a graphic design degree to make a viable newsletter, but I was very happy with the overall look of