Blog Journal 10

 Hello Class!

Welcome back to my blog! As we have learned in class data collection is very important in teaching. If I were to be a teacher I think I would have chosen 2nd grade or anything in elementary ed. In this grade level I would use data collection to make sure that the class was averaging good grades. I would use it to identify outliers in the data which would indicate that some students are not understanding the material. In terms of surveys I would send them out weekly to gauge who is engaging with the material.

I used my token #7 for the review of my peers blog posts. But so far from what I have seen the most interesting thing to me has been how everyone has chosen to set up their blogs. By this I mean that everyone has different layouts and even where they chose to put their gadgets was different as well. We answer the same questions as each other each week but even our answers vary a lot from week to week. 

The next technology related skill that I want to learn how to use is Photoshop. I think that technology has a lot of really good features and can be used a lot in education. The uses would be making posters for the classroom, and editing videos and pictures to help engage the students. This would be really cool because one a teacher has the knowledge they can pass those skills onto the student as well. 

Blog Journal 9

 Hello Class!

Today for my blog I will be talking about my experience as a distance learner. I have been distance learning at least half time for two and a half years now. I started taking online classes because my schedule got so complicated that I needed to not have set times for certain classes. I like remote learning because I can do the work on my own time. One of the thinks that I do not like how ever is how hard it is to stay on track sometimes, it is a lot of time management. As a teacher, I can reach out individually to students to make sure they are staying on task. 

According to UNESCO, open educational resources are any learning teaching, or research materials that fall in the public domain or are published under an open license and allow no cost access. These are excellent free resources that anyone can have access to and use. The website that I found this information on highlights UNESCO’s policy on OERs and provides so good resources. These resources include presentation from all over the world about different countries policies concerning OERs. 

https://en.unesco.org/themes/building-knowledge-societies/oer

One of the things that I learned while making the first PowerPoint assignment was how to use the design recommendations that are built into the app. It gave me some pretty cool layout options that I never would have thought of on my own. The first  picture is an example from the first power point assignment. Something that I learned in the second PowerPoint assignment was basically any of the skills that I used to make it. I previously had no idea that this was even possible. I think that it is a really cool feature and would be really interesting to use in a classroom to make things more interactive. 

Blog Journal 8

 Hello Friends! 

At first I was not a super big fan of using Weebly to make a website. After I got the hang of the site though I really enjoyed making it. I wanted to be an art teacher for elementary school kids and I used warm earth tones for the theme. I liked the capabilities of being able to drop formatting options onto the page and set them up exactly how I wanted to. One thing that confused me was all of the different tabs. I think I would need more than a couple of days to fully get the hang of the site.

http://misslindseysclass.weebly.com/

Honestly I am having kind of a difficult time with Diigo. I understand how to do everything when we are in class but actually executing it on my own is challenging. I can see the benefits of this website, like sharing research and articles. Being able to point out key information with highlights and sticky notes is cool tool. In a classroom I would be able to use this with my students to share articles I wanted them to read. 

Since technology is changing so I’d the way we learn and the way that we teach. This link is for “Free Technology for Teachers” and recommends fun apps and tools that you can use in your classroom. The learning stays the same, but the way you teach changes which is one of the important aspects of teacher professional development. This website is perfect for staying informed since it is a blog of a teacher.  

https://www.freetech4teachers.com/