I figured out how to upload a picture on my blog. I am unsure how to do it from my phone, but did it from my laptop. I read Jacob’s post about Adobe PhotoShop and found a picture in my phone and used the app.  I really like the app. It was easy to use and make the picture how you want it to be.

This is unfortunately a picture of my bummer. I walked out to my car in September and someone did a hit and run on my car :(. I really wish they would have left a note.

But I used this photo to photoshop and to see how to use the app. I really enjoyed using the app. Reading others blogs you can really learn a lot more than what we already are.

#beduc476 #Adobephotoshop

http://www.businessinsider.com/facebooks-ai-creates-population-maps-2016-2?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

This article caught my eye because it said Facebook. I have mentioned earlier in posts that I am someone that is on my Facebook all the time. It used to be the only way I read articles or shared them. But now I have other avenues for that. Such as Twitter where I found this article. This article was about how Facebook is tracking where people get on to the internet. It is trying to figure out what parts of the world people log in from. This gives them insight on where internet is and what the connectivity is. I am unsure from a technical standpoint how this can be done. But now a days pretty much anything can be done on the internet.

When the title talked about tagging technology detailed maps of where you lived that concerned me, that is why I really kept reading. I thought this was for purposes of knowing where you live for just a random reason, not to help internet connectivity and having internet other places. It seems to me Facebook is trying to help close the gap of digital divide from this articles standpoint.

#beduc476 #FB # digitaldivide

http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/9212926

Copy and paste this link in your browser and you will find and article about students that only use internet on a smart phone or a tablet. The article talks about how they go on the device for less time since most of these devices are shared by their families so they only have so much time on the internet. So instead of researching they are looking up things that interest them instead. That could be just apps or small things. While if they had access to the internet all the time or longer they could do more. Then it give examples about kids and how they used the internet to help them with their hobbies and even sold some things online.

After this class I have learned that not everyone even in the U.S. has internet connectivity. Now a days it is extremely important to have internet especially for your students in school.

#beduc476 #internetaccess

 

This is the third time I am trying to post this vine on my blog. I am really hoping this works this time. Now to figure out how to delete my last blog where it didn’t work. I am trying to move it from my phone onto my blog. I had to put it on Twitter and get the embed link to put on my blog. I had to all do this on a desktop it was much easier. I did a vine on this since phones are technology today. I went to Cannon Beach last weekend and got caught in a wave! Got knocked down and the ocean broke my phone! Tried rice and all .But hey at least my sweet dog pulled me out of the current while I was drowning. I had to use a flip phone all last week, it was brutal. I hadn’t realized how much I relied on my smart iphone 6 until it was gone! T9 texting is absolutely horrible. Now I know how people without smart phones feel when others text them and it just keeps coming in and in because it comes in as separate texts not just one page. Oh my it was frustrating. So glad to not be in the cold ocean and have my phone back. Thank goodness for insurance. #beduc476 #technology #iphone6 #t9textingsucks

 

 

I think I just deleted this post…I hope I did because I wanted the vine to show up. Please refer to the next post. Thanks. #beduc476 #vine

DML Research Hub is one of my favorite people to follow on Twitter. They always have good articles and things to share. I often re-tweet what they have or copy and paste articles that they are sharing on my blogs or the Curation site. This week I saw they had this link.

http://elearninginfographics.com/evolution-technology-schools-infographic/

This link shares what we have used throughout the years to teach. I can’t believe the overhead projector came out in 1930! When I was teaching in North Carolina in 2008, this is all they had for me to teach with. I was like woah, coming from guest teaching in Everett to my own classroom in North Carolina, it was like I stepped back into a time zone from years ago. However, we had one Mac PC to use for ourselves…but no technology for the students. Come to think of it now, it was bizarre. 1959 the photocopier came out! What would we do without the copy machine, seriously? 1990 the world wide web finally became a thing, and then ipads in 2010. I don’t know how to function without an ipad, iphone, computer or internet anymore. It is crazy to think that it was just in 1990 that the web came out.

I wonder what it would have been like to grow up now as an elementary school student with the internet and how we use it today? I know it hasn’t been around that long but with using it on a daily basis now, it feels like I never lived without it. So my students now, they really haven’t not ever not had it. My students even take their math assessments online each month, their A.R. tests daily and use many other websites throughout the school year. #beduc476 #evolution #technology

https://imgflip.com/gif/ysfeu

 

I am unsure if my GIF will work here. Try and copy and paste the link. I did this myself and it works to my own page. I need to figure out not to just have people on my GIF page though. I saved it, but can’t figure out how to download it to this blog otherwise. Regardless though, here is my first GIF. A picture of a doggie sticking out its tongue, as in haha (she stole the pool to cool off). I wrote, haha I finished my homework first! This was supposed to be made last week when I felt more ahead of my homework than this week. It is the thought that counts right?! #GIF #homework #technology

I posted something else about this the other week and the digital divide about having access or no access to the internet and how fast the internet connection was. This link goes into more detail about data about who has internet and who doesn’t and how much money some of these people make and how they can’t afford internet.

Internet does many things for us, such as paying bills online. People feel they need internet to do things, search for jobs, pay bills, have it so their child can do homework, research projects and so much more. Most schools do have internet, but the schools aren’t open after school for the students to use the computer. I know at my school a lot of my kids don’t have the internet at home. I wish there was a time we could open up the lab for those students to help them get the internet access they need. We do offer Imagine Learning Lab (only for English Language Learners) in the morning. But that is so they can complete their online coursework to learn English. I think we should be offering this to any student that needs it for school.

All I know is, internet is pricey! Especially if it is in a package by itself. You have to really search around to find the right price for what it is worth to keep it. I got on the Frontier package for 29.99 a month awhile back  just for internet. Before that I was paying 80 dollars a month for it, it was ridiculous and not feasible for even me with a full time job. So something needs to be done about the internet cost and how fast the service is and where it is available for people! I wonder what we can do? #beduc476 #digitaldivide #internet

 

http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2016/02/02/anti-poverty-advocates-call-for-affordable-internet.html