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Blooms Taxonomy is an organized depiction of the many levels of learning including: memory, understanding, applying, analyzing, evaluating, and creating. Powerpoint can bring all of these levels of learning to one place. On the first level, powerpoint can be used by teacher to create slides with facts that students can memorize, of example, a math teacher writing a formula. On the second level, teachers can integrate video and graphics to help students take concepts written on paper and put them in motion with real life examples the truly foster deeper understanding, like the math teacher showing how the formula appears on multiple graphs. On the applying level, teachers can integrate multiple choice questions and example problems into their powerpoint slides, like the math teacher integrating a practice problem for the students to test out their abilities. On the next level, power point can be used to show examples of solutions for the student to critique and evaluate validity and correctness. On the final level, the teacher can charge students to make their own informative power points dealing with the formal in real life or teaching the class about a new formula.

Adaptive technologies are any device or tool created to alleviate a learning disability. For example, blind or dyslexic students might need an audio text reader to read out assigned texts to them so they don't have to struggle with the written word. Adaptive technologies can even be more simple things, like pencil grips for students who struggles with writing, or keyboards for children who's thoughts race too fast for them to write them all down, predictive keyboards are also a tool that modern computers employ to help learners in need of assistance. Adaptive technology can be really easy to integrate into the classroom or very hard, depending on the tool. A pencil grip would be a really easy thing to supply a student with, but it is nearly impossible to supply a whole class with computers so they can type or use audio players. Adaptive technology is hard because it costs money and it varies from student to student, there is not universal solution or tool that works on everyone.

This week's assignment was my favourite so far. In my years of schooling, of all resources available to me, teacher websites have bee the most useful. All through high school, I checked my teachers sites daily. Some sites were well formatted and easily accessed, others not so much. The formatting of the site makes all the difference, so having the opportunity to create a site I would want to use as a student was a great learning experience. I used the CRAP model to keep my page well organized and better tailored to a learning experience. I used both text and pictures combined to strengthen my messages and I kept the text close to its assigned picture to keep continuity and convenience for the reader. I kept it simple so that it would not distract from the purpose and made it mostly to be functional and easily usable because students really are only there for functional purposes, not just for fun. My website looks a little like this: