Blog #10

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     I will use data collection by conducting surveys for my class. To ask questions about what type of learning they enjoy or help them the best. In my history class, I can use data collection to figure out what the class prefers for a field trip, projects, and many other things.  Being able to see the information and make decisions off the info will help my job as a teacher to accommodate the students.

    While reading my classmate's blogs I really enjoyed seeing their opinions. Some people had the same opinion as me and some differed but, it was interesting seeing why they felt that way. Like the digital divide blog and the answers, we gave varied between students. I always valued others' opinions and the blogs were a nice way to see everyone's perspective and opened my eyes to things I did not know. The type of teacher blog we did was good because it allowed me to see how people thought of themselves and their personalities. It is nice to see how people think of themselves and then put that into words for an assignment. 

    The technology skill I'd like to learn next is how to fully maximize PowerPoint and Word because they are the most used of all the programs. I don't use Excel ever or any of the others so I'd like to polish my skills. I will achieve this goal by practicing on. my own time and also completing assignments in school using those programs to challenge myself more and more each time. It will be very beneficial to me in the future to be able to use these to their full potential. It will make interaction higher and the learning will be better in the classroom with it. With word it will allow me to portray things better to help get my word across and much more with more skills in the program. 

Blog #9

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     I am not the biggest fan of distanced learning as I am more of an in person learner. The distanced learning makes it easier to procrastinate and be lazy because you aren't in the actual class. I do like being able to be home and do work but at the same time I enjoy going to campus and walking around. As a teacher i will try more interactive lessons with the students to try and keep their attention and keep it fun for them. Distant learning is harder than in person to me because you aren't given the resources like you are with in person with having interaction with classmates and the teacher, Zoom just doesn't fill that void for me.

    Open educational resources are different resources used in educational settings. They are made to help students and even teachers further their education and use different types of programs to learn more. OER's are made to be available to anyone under a Creative Commons license to use for their benefit. The article I found talks about OER's being a resource used to fuel collaboration and useful when coming up with your own practices.  The article also shares the best ways to find the best OER's and even gives examples. ARTICLE

The powerpoint assignments taught me a lot I did not know. Especially the interactive one which taught me how to make Powerpoints fun. I enjoyed making a game and it was the more invested i'd been in an assignment. I didn't really have any problems with either assignment other than the speaking part of Assignment 4 because I kept messing up! I had to redo it multiple times and it was a pain because I kept messing up my speech. I can improve by venturing out and challenging myself more next time on both assignments to better myself and my skills. 

Blog #8

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The website design assignment taught me a lot of new skills. It allowed me to learn what makes a website visually pleasing and also how to create an informational platform in general. I really did not like the Weebly website designer because it was extremely hard to navigate. Overall, the website was a pain and the website design part was not my favorite. I ended up using WiX which was amazing compared to Weebly because WiX was very easy to navigate around the website and create my website as well. In the future it will be helpful to have the skills to create a website for any situation. Eric's Website

Diigo has been a very interesting application, I learned about it in this class and it seems to be a very helpful tool when looking for specific parts of text. Being able to save or "highlight" specific parts of an article and save it for later is very handy. I will continue to use Diigo in the future for other classes because it will be beneficial for my major as I read multiple types of texts all the time. In a team setting being able to share a certain sentence or paragraph with a group instead of the whole article saves time and gets the point across a lot easier. 

Professional development and technology go hand in hand with one another. Teachers are supposed to keep up with the different trends in educational technology and it changes a lot. Technology is advancing very fast and its sometimes hard to keep up. Developing yourself as a teacher and being able to use technology to its full potential to teach students is a very hard tasks, especially with the topic of Digital Divide now as well where each student has access to different types of technology. I like to keep up with different new technologies or just advancements of previous ones to make sure I am up to date with what is going on around me. Twitter is a very good source for things like that as well. Twitter