As a teacher I think I would use surveys a lot in my classroom to gauge how well I am doing as a teacher. I will probably assign exit surveys after a lesson or semester to see what I need to improve on or change completely in my lesson plans. I know I will definitely use Excel for grades to help me stay organized and to easily find the class average and other basic math tools I may need.
The technology I would like to explore next would be photoshop. It has always intrigued me but I never played around with it too much but I think it would be a very fun and useful tool. So I plan on downloading it on my computer and maybe watch some youtube tutorials about how to use it and play around with it for a while to get used to it.
Tuesday, November 20, 2018
Tuesday, November 13, 2018
Blog Journal #9
The flipped classroom is the concept where a teacher records or puts the lesson online for the student to watch or complete by class time the next day and then in class the teacher would have the students do the homework from the lesson. This is considered a "flipped" classroom because you are flipping the instruction with the homework. In high school I had a flipped classroom for a few class periods in my geometry class, the reviews from the student were mixed, personally I did not enjoy it and prefer the traditional classroom.
Open educational resources (OER) are resources for teachers and students that are distributed through the web and are free of charge. It can vary from anything from a video to an online lesson plan. I found the University of Hawaii's page about OER, which includes links on where to find OER, how to create an OER, and even has a definition of what OER stands for and means. https://oer.hawaii.edu/
While working on the PowerPoints I learned many new skills. Some include how to make a non-linear powerpoint and be able to link it to new slides, what a master viewer was and how to edit it, how to add action buttons, and how to add presenter notes/view. These skills will help me in the future for projects and lesson plans. I did not like how the words were underlined and how the buttons looked, in the future I would have figured out how to edit them.
Open educational resources (OER) are resources for teachers and students that are distributed through the web and are free of charge. It can vary from anything from a video to an online lesson plan. I found the University of Hawaii's page about OER, which includes links on where to find OER, how to create an OER, and even has a definition of what OER stands for and means. https://oer.hawaii.edu/
While working on the PowerPoints I learned many new skills. Some include how to make a non-linear powerpoint and be able to link it to new slides, what a master viewer was and how to edit it, how to add action buttons, and how to add presenter notes/view. These skills will help me in the future for projects and lesson plans. I did not like how the words were underlined and how the buttons looked, in the future I would have figured out how to edit them.
Tuesday, November 6, 2018
Blog Journal #8
So far Diigo has been an amazing tool. I can easily annotate any webpage and share it with my peers which will make group assignments much easier. It will also help me immensely with future projects as I can save and annotate webpages so I do not have to keep trying to fund the webpage and also the information I wanted to use from the page. Overall, it is a very helpful tool that I will definitely utilize for many projects and also probably my future career.
By using PowerPoint, I can hit each aspect of Bloom's Taxonomy for any lesson. An example would be learning about farm animals. I can construct a PowerPoint that explains what farm animals are and the classifications that come with it. I can make it fun and interactive by asking questions, playing videos and sounds, applying the animals in real world examples such as they all serve a purpose for the farmer and some of those purposes would be providing milk, or meat. I would have the children answer questions, do group work, and in the end create a drawing of their favorite farm animal and present it to the class with an example of a service it provides for the farmer.
As a teacher it is our responsibility to teach our students about the incoming technology so they are not behind in this very digital day of age. This article has all the new technology being used in the classroom as well as explanations of the applications and how to use said technology. This source is extremely useful as trends change quickly and this keeps the teachers up to date on the latest trends. https://campustechnology.com/Articles/2018/01/11/7-Ed-Tech-Trends-to-Watch-in-2018.aspx?Page=2
By using PowerPoint, I can hit each aspect of Bloom's Taxonomy for any lesson. An example would be learning about farm animals. I can construct a PowerPoint that explains what farm animals are and the classifications that come with it. I can make it fun and interactive by asking questions, playing videos and sounds, applying the animals in real world examples such as they all serve a purpose for the farmer and some of those purposes would be providing milk, or meat. I would have the children answer questions, do group work, and in the end create a drawing of their favorite farm animal and present it to the class with an example of a service it provides for the farmer.
As a teacher it is our responsibility to teach our students about the incoming technology so they are not behind in this very digital day of age. This article has all the new technology being used in the classroom as well as explanations of the applications and how to use said technology. This source is extremely useful as trends change quickly and this keeps the teachers up to date on the latest trends. https://campustechnology.com/Articles/2018/01/11/7-Ed-Tech-Trends-to-Watch-in-2018.aspx?Page=2
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