Post #10 The Final Blog!

   Data collection most likely won't be the most useful thing for me as a hopeful 1st grade teacher. I don't see myself having any data I need to collect from my students unless it's an activity on favorite flavor of ice cream. Excel on the other hand has a lot of uses, that I didn't even knew existed until we learned about it for our skill check. Excel had alway scared me so I stayed as far away as possible. Now that I have kind of learned how to work it, I can see myself inputting my students' grades and assignments into it.

   I'm not sure what topics this specific prompt was talking about but I really liked seeing everybody's different opinions on "flipped classroom". I found seeing all the different experiences opened my eyes to more positive and negative aspects of it. I still didn't change my opinion, but I see why some teachers choose to do it.

   I would love to learn everything my computer is capable for. I believe there is so much my mac could do, but I'm only skimming the surface. I will probably search the depths of google and absorb as much information as I can. This class has made me realize how much technology can do for teaching and I hope to always learn cool new skills throughout my career.

 

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#9 flipping classrooms and learning new skils

   The idea of a flipped classroom is to let students listen/ watch lectures at home, then come to class to do projects and have discussions. Which sounds pretty simple, but I can't help but think of how it wouldn't work. We can ensure students are listening to us in the classroom but we have even less control over what they do at home. Every time we'd be given things to look at before class, I know 75% of the people in my classes didn't actually look at it.
 
   It also seems to have some advantages, such as making it easier for students who are homebound or shy in class to participate. It also is a great way to start and integrate educational technology into students' classrooms and homes. It would also help in situations where students are absent, they wouldn't be missing the actual lesson.

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   In our powerpoint for information dissemination I had trouble with the Master slide, I still am not sure I did it right. But overall, I very much liked putting together my own lesson and making it a show. I really felt like I was a teacher while working on this assignment.

    In our interactive powerpoint, I learned a lot of new skills and actually really enjoyed making the powerpoint. I like the idea of teaching/reviewing through games so this was very fun for me.

Diigo #5

   I really liked the ability to connect and collaborate through diigo. I'm definitely going to use this or some other form of social bookmarking in my future career as a teacher. One person can' t find everything there is to find on the internet, so we have to come together and share to make the giant mess of tools available online, a little smaller and more useful. In order to become a successful teacher, I believe I need to be able to use social bookmarking and tagging and all the other thing we learned through Diigo.

ILP- Class Dojo

For my ILP I put together a Class Dojo. I actually really liked this tool, its a good way to keep parents, students, and the teacher connected. The teacher can reward, penalize, and post stories to the site. It is probably going to be most useful for younger students because each student is given a little monster and is very easy to understand.  It also can give teachers a progress report which will show the teacher what the class needs to improve on the most. 

#8powerpoint and other teacher things

   While getting the tour of the lab, I saw a lot of technologies that I didn't even knew existed. One that I found especially useful was the Echo Smartpen. I find that a lot of students find it difficult to concentrate in class and I believe this pen is a easy solution. We all dose off and doodle sometimes while taking notes and if your using this pen you can touch the pen to your doodles and listen to the lecture from that exact point on.
   
    In Bloom's taxonomy there are 6 levels. We can use powerpoint for each level. For the first level, create, we would create the powerpoint with the most basic structure necessary.  In evaluate, you'd put support for what you're teaching. Analyze is where you differentiate and organize your information. Apply is where you may put things in your powerpoint to show how the information is executed and seeing if your students can apply the information in their own ways. For understand, having a section in the powerpoint where the students need to explain what was learned to see if they understand it. Lastly, for remember you can put a short quiz at the end of the powerpoint.

   

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Diigo #4

   I learned that assistive technologies aren't just for students who have disabilities. These tools can help every student in the classroom if used in the right way. ESE and ESOL students may need it more but I think it has a positive affect on everyone who uses them.