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The ILP I participated in this time was a Lynda.com tutorial on how to traverse the web in a safe manner. With the growing use of technology there will also be a growing amount of risks. The data we share on the internet via social media sites and meta data from just browsing can be used to steal passwords or identities. This tutorial went over concrete ways to make the browsing experience safer. It also touched on the ways to stave off hackers from any smart devices a person might have in their house. There are so many areas that might be exploited and this video covered almost all of them with great depth. Above is a screenshot of the categories they covered. They even included ways to protect your security physically like locking your screen when not using a device or putting an identification sticker on the device in case it's lost. Some of the recommendations in the tutorial I actually already use, but there were many where I was lacking or was completely vulnerable. I rea...

Data collection tools can give a teacher valuable information on the situation their students are in academically as well as insight into what would be the most effective way to continue their education. The use of surveys would allow me to collect data through self-response instead of having to do interviews individually. In a middle school geography classroom it would be very helpful to know the strengths and weaknesses of my students so I could know what to focus on the most in my lessons. Excel would be very useful in organizing data I collect from these surveys. Especially if I had multiple classes the amount of data collected could get overwhelming without an efficient way to organize it. The ideas of my classmates hold a lot of weight because we are training to be the teachers of future students. Although our experiences prior to this class are so varied there is similarity in our experience with this class. It's nice to see the enthusiasm for using more advanced methods ...

Diigo offers a clean and concise way to manage resources gathered for a research project or for compiling tools and websites that can help further a persons education after school. This helpful extension didn't teach me too many new skills as much as it opened the door for me to exercise skills I already have. It's a great way to manage a wide range of resources even if the topics differ with the use of their tagging function. Diigo also allows for collaboration in the resource gathering process which would be a great tool when doing a group project at work or school. Teachers could use Diigo to guide their students in their research process because the extension has the capability of sharing specific pages that will be used for an assignment. Joining a group that has already collected resources on a specific topic would be a fast and easy way to expose oneself to needed information. At the recall level I could use PowerPoint to create a game such as Jeopardy or other trivia ...