Thalia Mendoza Weekly Blogs

Ms. Sears Classroom Webpage     While looking through some of the teacher pages for Leon High School, I was impressed with the creative and the amount of content in some of the pages. I specifically decided to write about Ms. Erica Sear's U.S History Class page. I love History and her page was CONTENT HEAVY! It had a bunch of cool stuff not only for students, but useful information for parents as well. The way this teacher split up her materials was easy to navigate, She separated her material based on the different units throughout the entire year. The units ranged from unit 1- unit 11 and even included early EOC review at the beginning of the year & EOC review at the end of the year as well. Within each module, she had quilts, notes, study guides, vocabulary activities, books, and videos.      As an educator, I would most definitely use technology in a similar way! Growing up, my teachers were not too knowledgeable on technology and did not necessarily go above and beyond for

    Initially when I first started to use Diigo, I was extremely confused about the entire thing. I also did not understand the importance of it. It was very confusing for me to use. Just looking at it, kind of gave me a headache. Now, I have definitely come to appreciate it just a little bit more. I am still not super familiar with it, but I have learned how useful it can be. I have come to love the tool. In the past, I have tried to look for a simple web highlighter and have been unsuccessful. Not only is Diigo a simple highlighter, but there are a ton of bonus features including bookmarking//read later, tagging/keywords, lists/categories, notes/annotation, and the social/sharing features which I  love! I really like all these features, however, I dont like that when you log into Diigo it looks messy and confusing and makes you not want to learn how to use it. I think it can be discouraging in that aspect.      When it comes to blogging, I have enjoyed it. It is easy and fun to do. T

"Peace Jam 2016 (215 of 221)"  by  MDC Padron Campus  is licensed under  CC BY-NC-ND 4.0  

     LAFS.1112.SL.2.5: This standard really places importance on creativity when it comes to  curriculum , as well as stresses the importance of being creative in the education field. The standard mainly focuses on digital media, whether it be textual, graphical,  audio ,  visual , etc.. in presentations. This standard is important  because  often times students  don't  find interest in the  curriculum  that is being  taught  to them at school. Students also have different ways of learning or  preferred  methods of learning, so as an educator it is important to meet those students needs so they can learn to the best of their own unique  abilities . I would say that I would be confident carrying out everything that this standard encompasses. Given my previous experience as a curriculum coach for Peace Jam South East, as. 4th and 5th grade math and science teacher, and as a preschool teacher, I feel more than prepared to implement this standard. I used a lot of digital media during m