Damian B Scalf

      From what I have seen from my own alma mater, Baker county High School, the information that you can get from the teacher "pages" is the subsections of the staff directory ( https://www.bakerk12.org/domain/287). In this area of the sight we see rather simply the position of the faculty and the provided email from the school, giving an easy content point for those outside the system to contact specific teachers (for example, parents of students). This also provides an easy way to see who is working at the school and their (while generalized) positions within the school. Thus I would have to say for outsiders these pages are rather bare and primarily exists to provide parents with a communication tool with parents.     I plan to use technology sparingly when it comes to my professional career. Of the tools that I would be likely to use would be such things as google classroom and other programs that allow for the distribution of information and assignments from teachers t

      I would have to say that I find the use of diigo to be interesting to say the least. Its functions and similarly to facebook from what I have seen, with pages being dedicated to specific subject matter. My primary criticism of the application is that its UI is largely unappealing and makes using the site a bit of a pain. Thus I would have to say that I would prefer to use other sites with more appealing user interfaces.      My experience with blogging comes from my sue of both twitter and tumblr. My enjoyment of such experiences comes from the fact that it allows me to passively enjoy content created by others and curating my own experience to enjoy such things. From blogging I have learned both the modern application of the subjects that I am interested in and as such I feel as though my ability as an educator improves. As such I believe I will continue to indulge in blogging as a part of my PLN.      A tool I would like use that we have not discussed yet is that of reddit. Sim

    I have been using twitter for about 4 years now. During this time twitter has been a highly personal and private, with my primary engagement being cultural and political posts and pages, along with the website being one of my primary sources for the news. Because of this, I find twitter to be an extremely enjoyable and personally educational, however I do think it to be extremely personal. So for the most part I do not believe that twitter will play major role in my educational toolbox.  The digital divide, or the fact that access to technology is often correlated with economic status. This does and will continue to cause poor and working class students to fall behind the rich and managerial class students due to the later working with more tools. The cause is simple, access to technology costs money, and those with less of the later will not have the former. For this reason I intend to have as low tech options for my lesson plans to flatten the playing field as much as possible.  

  When it comes to standards put forth by the ELA I feel as though I am best equiped to implement and accomplish standard LAFS.1112.W.2.6. Simply put this standard refers to the ability to use the internet as a resource for acquiring information and then using said acquisition to improve upon priory made work. The reason I believe I would be particularly well equipped for completing such a task is that it is a skill that I myself make avid use of, and as such teaching would simply be illustrating how to do so for my students. Thus, I believe that accomplishing the standards is simply a matter of being able to do them myself.      The particular resource that I find the most intriguing and useful would be that of the Khan Academy video Thinking like a Historian. My reasoning for picking this particular piece is two fold, firstly unlike many other resources it is about a particular skill rather than a historical event or figure, which I believe to be more directly useful to the students