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ILP 1: Tech Showcase Clear Touch Interactive For my first independent learning project I went to the Tech Showcase after class on September 18th. They had a lot of cool stuff to show off from the Tech Sandbox - there was a 3D printer, virtual reality, laser keyboards, and many more high-tech gadgets that I had a hard time wrapping my head around. We're really living in the future, you guys, but I'm a simple gal. My favorite tech gadget they had was the Clear Touch Interactive (pictured above). It's basically a big, touchscreen computer. They've shown one in action on Grey's Anatomy. You don't have to be Meredith Grey to use this thing though! I'm not a surgeon by any means. I'm much more right brain (as you can see lol). I opened paint and drew a wave. It was pretty cool because whenever I use paint on the computer,  my paintings always end up wonky. I have to look at a vertically-oriented screen, while using a mou...

Diigo  Diigo was pretty cool. Before we learned about it in class, I had no idea that social bookmarking was possible. It's definitely a plus as a teaching tool. Teaching is all about collaboration- if you use diigo for your lesson plans in the classroom, you'll have different materials from a whole bunch of different teachers to pick and choose from. That makes for more exciting instruction and less work for you, as the instructor! With all these materials floating around on the internet, diigo makes it easy to organize them and narrow them down with tags and categories.  Blogging  I dig the blogging in this class. I'm actually thinking about making a personal blog for everyday life and my photography business. I've been getting my life together lately. A personal blog would give me the space to talk about more interesting things and record this journey that all of us are on- college students and normal, everyday people alike. Every time you write you establ...

Twitter So I first created a Twitter account when I was a sophomore in high school. I was a little late to jump on the bandwagon because I was still crazy about Facebook until everyone and their mother (and THEIR mothers too) created an account. Just like that, Facebook was "old" and all the cool kids had twitters instead. Nowadays, I'm much older and wiser and don't waste my time on social media (well..mostly). The only people on my Twitter that I follow are people I used to know and frankly, I don't really care what they're up to anymore. I followed all those people back in high school when I wanted spy on my peers and see what was going on in their lives. It was a platform to see and post homecoming/prom pictures and keep up with the school drama that was always displayed in savage tweets. I think I also followed a few 5 Seconds of Summer fan accounts lol. I don't really find it to be beneficial at all anymore and if you have some good reasons why yo...