#7 - Assistive Touch-ed My Heart

Adaptive technology is defined as technologies that help people with disabilities more effectively use computing equipment. A problem they could be facing is not being able to see the board or a demonstration to not even being able to move a computer mouse. I have not seen the use of assistive technology in a classroom of mine. But when I was younger and I volunteered with the kids in my school that were disabled I noticed that they spent a lot of time on their tablets. Perhaps they were listening to audio books because reading was a bit difficult for them. If an adaptive technology was needed in my classroom, a challenge I would see is learning a different way of maneuvering that technology and teaching it to the student. I would have to give myself a quick little lesson on how to work the tool.

Creating a Web Page Design was actually quite fun. I liked how I could make a whole website on my own and that I can control what my viewers see and how they get informed. I did not like how I was not that technologically advanced to know how to add the calendar feature on my own. That means I am lacking with my computer skills SMH. Next time I would probably add more features and pictures to make the page look more appealing. I would also add a new page for actual assignments that students could print out at home if they lost or forgot their papers.

Working with Diigo is fun but sort of complicated in my opinion. Maybe because in class we use the older version rather than the updated version? I do think that it is useful and helps keep track of different websites and important info on them. It taught me an easier way to annotate and bookmark a page. This could be useful in the classroom by checking the resources students use in their assignments and by easily tracking information online that I could possibly use in a presentation or lesson, as well as creating an educational forum for my students to use.

Ms. Garcia's Science Class