Whenever I teach students technology I realize how important it is let students who have had a bad experience understand that this does not make them stupid or inadequate. Many times it is the designer of the technology that did not consider them, or perhaps wants them to have such and such device or a new(er) device. I tell especially teachers…[Read more]

Totally agree Brian! I see new immigrants being really intimidated or confused to sign up for accounts as well! While some sites are bilingual-multilingual, many are not!

Hi everyone,

I enjoyed checking out Manifold and it feels good to be focusing on equity in CITE.

Where do you see connections between the spotlights you read last week and the ideas shared about equity in this week’s resources?

In my work I’d like to really better integrate these ideas:

Name historical institutional injustices and then w…[Read more]

Hi everyone,

Still catching up here!  I tried Miro and Loppy since they were new tools for me.  I found Loppy pretty limiting because it was just about circles.  Meh. I was initially excited about Miro especially the idea of making a kind of card game and the interaction/collaboration factor.  However, when I tried to redo some cards in a tem…[Read more]

Hi Everyone!

I guess a benefit of being super behind and posting weeks after most of you is that I get to read all your posts.  😀

The cards…

I was happy to see so many of us picked #8 as a fav card (teachers and students can use new media and computing as a tool for voice, participation, activism and critique related to causes they care…[Read more]

Hi Everyone,
My apologies for posting so late! I am an Associate Professor of TESOL. I teach courses a range of courses, but my staples are: Literacy and Technology, Instructed Second Language Acquisition, Teaching Reading and Writing to Adult Languages Learners and Technology in the Early Education classroom.

CODAP was a new tool for me. I am…[Read more]