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Friday, December 1, 2017
Monday, November 27, 2017
Blog Journal 10
1. I will use data collection a lot when I become a teacher. Surveys are a great thing to give students and maybe even their parents in the classroom. They can help give you feedback on things to improve in the classroom and things that were effective and people liked. This would be good to use for parents of students for me, as I plan to teach elementary school. However, parents will be able to give me feedback on homework and how things are done in the classroom and communicated to them. In addition to this, excel is a great tool to use. It can do things like calculate the class average on a test for you, so you don't have to. This can show if the test you gave was too hard or too easy, etc.
2. From reviewing my classmate's blogs, I was able to learn additional information on the lessons we had in class and other assignments. This was very helpful at times for me if I did not quite understand something, through reading my classmate's posts I was able to reiterate what it was that I was learning. In addition to this, I found it very interesting to read other people's opinions on things we did in class throughout the year. Also, how they did some of their projects and how each of us had our own creative spin on projects that were assigned to us in class.
3. I would really like to learn how to properly use Excel. I think it has so many functions that can be so helpful to teachers. However, I have no idea how to use it. I hope to learn some ways that I can take advantage of Excel. I will do this by listening in class as well as watching youtube videos on how to use functions in Excel. If I need it for something specific in the future I will look up a tutorial on it.
2. From reviewing my classmate's blogs, I was able to learn additional information on the lessons we had in class and other assignments. This was very helpful at times for me if I did not quite understand something, through reading my classmate's posts I was able to reiterate what it was that I was learning. In addition to this, I found it very interesting to read other people's opinions on things we did in class throughout the year. Also, how they did some of their projects and how each of us had our own creative spin on projects that were assigned to us in class.
3. I would really like to learn how to properly use Excel. I think it has so many functions that can be so helpful to teachers. However, I have no idea how to use it. I hope to learn some ways that I can take advantage of Excel. I will do this by listening in class as well as watching youtube videos on how to use functions in Excel. If I need it for something specific in the future I will look up a tutorial on it.
Thursday, November 16, 2017
Blog Journal 9
1. The flipped classroom is basically changing the way classrooms function to help students deepen their content understanding. An example of this is a teacher recording their lecture and having students watch the lecture for homework, rather than teaching it in class. This way, when the students come to class, they can do other activities, group work, individual work, and discussions about the lesson they watched for homework. This also gives the student better access to the information that they need, they can access their teachers actual lesson!
-Below I have linked an example of a flipped classroom lesson. This is my Psychology teacher from high school, we were given a week to watch this lesson, then the next week in class we did discussions, games, and other activities in relation to the lesson we watched at home.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUnH1D5hbqQ
2. I think something that is really awesome is Open Education. This is making education available to anyone. One thing the podcast mentioned was MIT's Open Education program where they have lectures online so anyone can view them. I think this is pretty amazing to be able to view lessons to one of the most prestigious schools in the country for free! No matter if you get a grade for the knowledge you acquire, you are still learning and that is all that matters.
-Below I have linked the website to MIT's information that they have available to the public. Here they have many different topics and subtopics that users can explore and look for specific topics or choose more general information.
https://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm
3. I acquired many skills on powerpoint through doing these two projects. The main thing that I learned is how to record my voice and put it over a powerpoint, I have never done this before. I think my first time was okay, however I think there are ways to edit your audio and make it have cleaner cuts. In addition to this, I learned how awesome the use of animations are! They can really make a powerpoint more fun and interesting especially for younger students.
-Below I have linked an example of a flipped classroom lesson. This is my Psychology teacher from high school, we were given a week to watch this lesson, then the next week in class we did discussions, games, and other activities in relation to the lesson we watched at home.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUnH1D5hbqQ
2. I think something that is really awesome is Open Education. This is making education available to anyone. One thing the podcast mentioned was MIT's Open Education program where they have lectures online so anyone can view them. I think this is pretty amazing to be able to view lessons to one of the most prestigious schools in the country for free! No matter if you get a grade for the knowledge you acquire, you are still learning and that is all that matters.
-Below I have linked the website to MIT's information that they have available to the public. Here they have many different topics and subtopics that users can explore and look for specific topics or choose more general information.
https://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm
3. I acquired many skills on powerpoint through doing these two projects. The main thing that I learned is how to record my voice and put it over a powerpoint, I have never done this before. I think my first time was okay, however I think there are ways to edit your audio and make it have cleaner cuts. In addition to this, I learned how awesome the use of animations are! They can really make a powerpoint more fun and interesting especially for younger students.
Tuesday, October 31, 2017
Technology and Teacher Professional Development
1. What did you learn today through your individual efforts?
- I learned about the extent to which Diigo can be used for professional development. It really is a great resource, I think all teachers should even be required to set up an account and join their schools group. It really helps teachers communicate with each other and share anything they want!
2. What did you learn today viewing the bookmarks and annotations of others?
-Through someone's post they shared on Diigo, again Diigo is awesome, I learned about an educational forum. Here, teachers can post to each other in general, and the forum even gets broken down into subject, so you could use whichever subject you need!
- I learned about the extent to which Diigo can be used for professional development. It really is a great resource, I think all teachers should even be required to set up an account and join their schools group. It really helps teachers communicate with each other and share anything they want!
2. What did you learn today viewing the bookmarks and annotations of others?
-Through someone's post they shared on Diigo, again Diigo is awesome, I learned about an educational forum. Here, teachers can post to each other in general, and the forum even gets broken down into subject, so you could use whichever subject you need!
Monday, October 30, 2017
Blog Journal 8
1. Adaptive technologies are a great tool to use in the classroom. They can range from very technologically advanced things, such as a language translator. Or it can be something very simple, such as a screen reader. Both of these technologies help benefit students in the classroom. They help it so every child has an equal opportunity to learn, as well as enabling every child to be challenged in the classroom and help them get a better education. These technologies can help a regular student, a special needs student, and even gifted students!
2. Bloom's Taxonomy is categorizing the different levels of learning and understanding of a given subject. It is something that is very important for teachers to be aware of and use to help their students learn to the best of their ability. One way to teach using Bloom's Taxonomy is through Powerpoint. For example, in a class of around 20 students, there is going to be some variety of which level of Bloom's Taxonomy each student is at. To utilize Powerpoint, I would include a variety of questions on each slide ranging from easy-hard. For students who already understand the hard questions, I could maybe have them explain how they got their answer, therefor helping to explain to other students as well as further understanding the subject themselves.
3. http://www.edtechroundup.org/
This website is a great place for teachers to stay up to date with the latest technology trends. In facts, this is exactly what this website was made for! It has tons of links to educational technology and the home page features what is new in the world of educational technology today.
2. Bloom's Taxonomy is categorizing the different levels of learning and understanding of a given subject. It is something that is very important for teachers to be aware of and use to help their students learn to the best of their ability. One way to teach using Bloom's Taxonomy is through Powerpoint. For example, in a class of around 20 students, there is going to be some variety of which level of Bloom's Taxonomy each student is at. To utilize Powerpoint, I would include a variety of questions on each slide ranging from easy-hard. For students who already understand the hard questions, I could maybe have them explain how they got their answer, therefor helping to explain to other students as well as further understanding the subject themselves.
3. http://www.edtechroundup.org/
Monday, October 23, 2017
Journal 7
1. So far, twitter has shown me that there is a whole different side to twitter that I did not even know existed. I follow a lot of educational accounts and pages like NASA, that post interesting facts and new scientific information. From these, I have seen posts from teachers about interesting things that they are doing in their classroom as well as some of their student's work. From just the general education pages, I see posts about interesting tools teacher's can use in their classroom. This includes programs like Edmodo and Kahoot as well as updates to these applications and ways to maximize the usage of these programs. The benefit of using Twitter is that it is so up to date on everything. Nowadays, pretty much every company has a twitter account that posts about their product. In addition to this, teachers post and share with each other their experiences and things they are doing in their classroom; from these they are able to interact with each other.
2. I do not have much yet to my webpage, however, I am happy with what I have at the moment. I made sure everything that I put into my webpage is going to be useful for students and their parents. Another important element of my webpage is the design and layout of everything. I wanted to make it super user-friendly so everything could easily be found.
www.lindseycallahanEME.weebly.com
3. From working on Diigo in class I have actually downloaded it for my own personal use. It is such a useful tool and I use it to bookmark things for some of my classes and it has really helped me to stay on top of my work. I know when I start teaching it is something that can be super useful for me. I think it would be even more beneficial in the future because I can organize all of my lesson plans and pages that I found useful, as well as seeing other teacher's saved pages.
2. I do not have much yet to my webpage, however, I am happy with what I have at the moment. I made sure everything that I put into my webpage is going to be useful for students and their parents. Another important element of my webpage is the design and layout of everything. I wanted to make it super user-friendly so everything could easily be found.
www.lindseycallahanEME.weebly.com
3. From working on Diigo in class I have actually downloaded it for my own personal use. It is such a useful tool and I use it to bookmark things for some of my classes and it has really helped me to stay on top of my work. I know when I start teaching it is something that can be super useful for me. I think it would be even more beneficial in the future because I can organize all of my lesson plans and pages that I found useful, as well as seeing other teacher's saved pages.
Friday, October 20, 2017
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