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 The latter half of my junior year and the entirety of my senior year of high school were spent in lock down. I enjoyed that I had the luxury of staying at home whilst also doing school work, since I wasn't a fan of getting up at 7:30 A.M. and taking the bus to school. However, I disliked the varied responses teachers had to the lock down. Some teachers acted like there was no lock down, causing most of the class to fall behind, while other teachers didn't move ahead at all. If I become a teacher, I'd be sure to COVID proof my lessons so that the transition between in person to online would be (hopefully) seamless. OER, simply put, are accessible resources that anybody can use within the classroom. The OER article I found talked about Climate Optimism and a fully remodeled Climate Project. The article opens with discussing how many young adults and adolescents feel that they are helpless in changing the world around them. It then leads to talk about how having optimism coul...

 1. A lot of the experience I gained from this assignment is with handling wix.com, rather than the application of CRAP principles. That's not to say I didn't use CRAP principles: I used contrast to allow my words to be apparent on the page, and alignment to make sure any figures were aligned. I imagine some good Wix website creators make their site look good, but I've found that I really don't like how it works. Overall, I'd say that I'll keep CRAP principles in mind if I ever have to make a personal website for myself, but I won't be using Wix the next time I do so. https://thejar168.wixsite.com/my-site-2 2. AI is a part of everyday life at this point, but I won't say that I go out of my way to use AI tools such as ChatGPT. I believe that using those tools produces an equivalent, if not worse, outcome that a human currently can (ex. a human asks ChatGPT to make a code for a project. It produces what looks to be  a working code, but has so many bugs tha...

 I had a hard time finding a teacher page for any local schools. I was able to find staff directories, listing the e-mails that teachers/faculty provide for outreach, but nothing beyond that. Some websites I looked at had announcements praising teachers for being awarded teacher of the year, but that was as much information as I could find without a log-in or guided navigation through the website. Overall, I found nothing about class pages during my search. I haven't viewed technology as part of my development as a professional, as I mostly focus on how I can efficiently a lot of my time to do the work I have. Although it isn't a teacher-specific development tool, I could see myself utilizing Google Calendar to begin planning and dispersing my workload across the week. I've found myself procrastinating a lot of the work I do, and I realize that not addressing this problem may culminate in there simply being too much work for me to do at one time, so using a calendar resourc...