Blog Post 7

   PowerPoint can be used in multiple ways to support student learning, especially in each step of Bloom's Taxonomy, these steps (from easy to difficult) include: remember, understand, apply, analyze, evaluate, and create. At the level of remembering a fast-paced game can be created on PowerPoint to recall the basic parts of a concept. At the level of understanding a more in depth lecture can be created to go over the meaning and the connotative aspects that apply to these meanings. At the level of application a choose-your-own-story interactivity can be used to to apply the concepts to a real life situation. At the level of analyzation a teacher can create a concept map or flow chart from slide to slide in which a teacher will take a big concept and break it down with the following slides. At the level of evaluation PowerPoint can be used as an interactive test in which students are able take the concepts and judge them in front of the class. And lastly at the level of creation students can create their own PowerPoint covering one of the concepts gone over in class.
   Assistive and adaptive technologies are mostly used to aid and improve students that have a tougher time learning the traditional way. These technologies can be very broad in their aid or very specific. For example audio player can help students that have a tough time paying attention to books. I have never known or encountered someone that has used this kind of technology. Some of the challenges that come with assistive technologies include catering to the specific needs of every student and some of the technology might be disruptive to the other students in the class.
   In the web page design assignment I learned how to use a new kind of interface. Because it was done in class I felt a little rushed like I couldn't really explore all the features that were included. Next time I feel like Ill be able to improve on a project because Ill be able to truly work with all of the features.