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Blog Journal #10

As a teacher I believe I will use surveys and excel a lot to get back important information/storing that important information. Surveys are an awesome way to get quick feedback from your students. Since I want to teach second grade, I might use surveys by asking them about their knowledge on a topic before we start on it, that way I will know where everyone is at in the classroom. I would love to keep track of my students test grades using excel, so that I can see if they have excelled on a certain subject or have fallen behind. This will give me insight on what I should focus more on topic/subject wise. Over the blog posts that I have read from my classmates, I found everyone’s LIPs to be the most interesting. A lot of people did other things than me and it was cool to see how their experiences were different than mine. Another topic I found interesting was everyone’s thoughts on our PLN projects we did during this class. Such as, some thought Diigo was really helpful and great, w...
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ILP #2 "Design" WebQuest

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For my second Independent Learning Project, I wanted to create something that I am familiar with from learning in this class. I decided that making a WebQuest was the best thing for me to do. Out of all the assignments, I found creating a website the most valuable and fun way to make educational content. Since I am going into the field of teaching elementary school children, I wanted to create website that correlated with it. For my WebQuest, the information is on second grade word math problems. In another class we were asked to create a video of us teaching a group of people any lesson we wanted and this is what I did it on. I was accustomed to this lesson plan so I figured making a website on it would be the easiest for me. I go over the steps it takes for you to solve a word problem and the operations and key words you are required to know. I also leave sources that will help you solve the problem easily with strategies for it, as well as sources that I used to create this WebQuest...
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Blog Journal #9

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A flipped classroom is a way of teaching. The pedagogy of a flipped classroom is where students basically learn the material on their own and in the classroom, discuss what they learned. This can be beneficial on a certain degree, but not all classes thrive off of this method. For instance, I once had a calculus class in high school where the teacher uploaded videos online for us to watch and learn, and then in class, we did the homework, he didn't want to help us either. Math is just not a subject that you can do this method with, you have to teach them step by step and be there to help them. But, in classes where it’s just mainly reading things at home and then coming in to discuss them, this method might flourish. It honestly depends on the students preference of learning. Open educational resources are resources that are available to everyone and anyone. They are usually based online. Having open educational resources is very beneficial for students who are already spending...
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Blog Journal #8

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The new skills I learned from using Diigo are bookmarking, creating sticky notes, and interacting with others posts.. You can bookmark websites or articles you find useful and even create sticky notes to jot down thoughts you had about a specific sentence or column. You can also look at what others have bookmarked and their comments on the same thing as you. This gives you different perspectives on the same topic. Diigo can be useful in classrooms because you could give a website and have the students create sticky notes on things they thought were important or useful to the topic you’re discussing in class. It can be useful with team members if you are not able to meet up together but can still give your thoughts and see others at the same time. In your individual efforts it’s useful if you find an article you love and want to remember you can just quickly use Diigo to save it. I could use powerpoint as a supportive technology for student learning in for example, math. When you ma...
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Blog Journal #7

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My twitter experience has been quite fun. It’s cool to interact with those who have the same interests as me and to learn about things going on in education at the moment. I’ve learned a few things from being on twitter academically, one is that there is such a big community of educators using twitter for the good which is very surprising to me. I never really thought about how social media isn't just for fun, it can be used to learn as well. I haven't experienced any issues because twitter is such a positive environment when used this way. When used for fun, there is a lot of hate and awful things that are being spread online, but used academically, it has been really positive and everyone is helping each other. The benefits of using twitter like I mentioned before, is that you can interact with those who are interested in the same thing as you. It’s nice to relate and talk about those things. Some of the new skills I required from the Web Design assignment are learning h...
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ILP "Participation" Lynda.Com

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I wanted to pick something for my first ILP that I found interesting as well as useful for my future, so I chose a tutorial on Excel spreadsheets. It may not sound interesting to you, but for me, I’m intrigued on how to better my skills and learn something new. At first I thought this would be really boring, but it wasn't all that bad. It’s like taking an online course at home for free and a way shorter amount of time. Plus, no grades. I thought it was really cool how people can come together and use their knowledge to help others.  He begins with making us take a quiz on our previous knowledge and then goes into explaining shortcuts within Excel. After this he explained how to use Excel with your desktop, such as creating a new one or saving one to your desktop. Then he talks about collaborating with Excel; like how you can share your documents or even view and comment on others. Finally, he talks about charts in Excel and creating forms. For the charts, he just explains all the...
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Blog Journal #5

We first started using Diigo in class and honestly, I had a hard time. The site wasn't very easy to navigate and wasn't visually pleasing to me. After installing it onto chrome and using it to annotate a website, it wasn't too bad. But, when we had to comment on other posts, it was very confusing and I could barely find the button to comment due to the words being so small and hard to find. After more attempts, I am sure it will come easier, but, it shouldn't be this annoying to deal with in the first place. Blogging has been way nicer than I previously thought. Coming into it I figured it would just be a useless resource, but I actually enjoy it. It's a fun, new way to do assignments and we are able to design ours how we want, to give it some personalization. Another thing is how easy it is to navigate through the blogger website. I don't mind doing these every week and I would recommend it for other courses or just for fun in general. A Web 2.0 tool I migh...
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