21st+Century+Technologies+and+Skills

**//"Red is the ultimate cure for sadness" -Bill Blass// **   

Below is the Edmodo site that my group and I created for our technology presentation. I was responsible for creating the page and inviting my group members to join. I created the quizzes and assignments for our "class." This site is wonderful for schools that are fortunate enough to have 1:1 laptop usage in their classrooms, and my group's collaboration taught me a lot about the site that I wouldn't have learned by exploring it on my own. I love the idea of having students present new forms of technology to their classmates and to me. This will allow everyone to learn new things, as well as keep me up-to-date with what is happening in the huge realm of technology. For the group presentation, we explained to our clasamates the wonderful benefits of the website and also its cons. Although there are not many cons that we could find with the site, we did notice that the cellular application for the site is much different from the computer site. The website is environmentally friendly because it can essentially be a peper-free classroom.



For my next artifact, I have provided a personal reading presentation that I had to make in my ECI 306/Teaching Reading for Adolescents class. Before this class, we had not done much in regards to technology, so we were taught a lot about Windows Movie Maker through seminars and help sessions. I included this artifact because it explains my reading journey up until a year ago and shows me the large amount of progress I have made in such a small amount of time. With the classes I have taken at NC State and the experience I have gained through observation and teaching, I now know so much more about adolescent reading than I could have ever imagined. Not only does this video show me as an adolescent, but it shows how much I have grown since the beginning of my reading and technological adventure began.

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The following image is a QR code that I generated for my Twitter account. I do not often create tweets, but I use the website to learn about what is going on in the educational world around me. In order to scan the QR code, smart phones must have a downloaded application made for doing this, specifically. I just wanted to add this because I think it is very spiffy! Tweet me @ krystaj15. :)