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Adaptive technologies helps students with learning disabilities in the classroom. Students with visible disabilities such as not being able to see the screen, hear the computer, or type on the keyboard can use input and output devices. Instead of reading a screen, they might use text to speech software that can speak to them or have a magnified screen. I personally haven't met anyone whose used these kind of technologies. A challenge I may face using these adaptive technologies in the classrooms, is my ability to use it. Since I have not seen or tried adaptive technologies, I would have to learn about the softwares to ensure any students of mine that might need to use them.

Some skills I acquired while working on the web page design assignment was creating a web site in general, since I have not really done that. I also learned how to create a page design set up to make my website more appealing. I loved creating a website since this is something I would like to do when I'm a teacher. It was easy to learn and understand the tools on Wix.com. For next time, I would like to add more pages and more information for my 'classroom' since that would be most helpful for future students and parents. In my future teaching career, creating a class page would be so helpful for students and parents to catch up on any material, learn about what's going on each day, different announcements, and a good reference for the school year. Click here to view my class page!







From working with Diigo, I've learned that multiple people can join a group and post links, information, and other material all at the same time. I found the highlighting tool on Diigo very helpful for students. It's a great way for students to comment or question certain information and share their thoughts for everybody to look at. This social networking software is a great application for future learning and connecting with others.