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EME Pinterest Website
Monday, November 28, 2016
ILP "Design" - Pinterest
I have chosen to do Pinterest boards as my Independent Learning Project #2. Pinterest is one of my favorite websites to work with for my personal life, so I thought it would be fun to search for Educational Technology posts that I could also possibly use in the future. I will be hopefully teaching Kindergarten, so these boards are based on a Kindergarten classroom with posts for technology, lesson plans, holiday activities, and ways to help me as a teacher become more current with new technology. I will continue to post new "pins" as I see ones that seem beneficial. Pinterest is great for decorating ideas, but I have now realized how beneficial it is for teachers to use for websites that have helped other teachers or parents from their past students. Each of the five albums have different technology websites that could be beneficial to that specific topic.
Below are three screenshots of my Pinterest account:
EME Pinterest Website
Below are three screenshots of my Pinterest account:
EME Pinterest Website
Monday, November 21, 2016
#10 Blog
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Since I will be teaching elementary, specifically kindergarten or 1st grade, Data Collection tools are not as essential as if I were a high school teacher. Although I will be an elementary teacher, I will use Data collection tools for keeping track of grades on mathematic, science, and reading tests, along with other miscellaneous assignments that will be given throughout the year. I will use these tools to determine my students' progress in these subject areas throughout the year and see which areas the majority of my students are struggling with, so I have the opportunity to review that area again.
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After reviewing my classmates' blogs, I have gained more information and ways to look at certain topics for education. I haven't had one particular favorite blog each week, but rather different bloggers have entertained me and informed me on different things. One particular topic that I found most interesting was seeing the different projects that we have worked on throughout the semester, specifically the PowerPoint and the Weebly. I loved seeing how people used such different designs and what they found difficult while trying to complete this task.
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The next technology-related skill I would like to learn is more about the SmartBoard. Although we saw a little bit while visiting the Tech Sandbox, I would like to go visit again and go into more detail about what exactly this could provide me for my future classroom. While mentoring at a local elementary school, I have gained some skills just watching the teacher use it for her kindergarten class with mathematic games. The teacher has expressed how helpful the SmartBoard can be for student learning, but it is only helpful since she knows how to use it.
Since I will be teaching elementary, specifically kindergarten or 1st grade, Data Collection tools are not as essential as if I were a high school teacher. Although I will be an elementary teacher, I will use Data collection tools for keeping track of grades on mathematic, science, and reading tests, along with other miscellaneous assignments that will be given throughout the year. I will use these tools to determine my students' progress in these subject areas throughout the year and see which areas the majority of my students are struggling with, so I have the opportunity to review that area again.
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After reviewing my classmates' blogs, I have gained more information and ways to look at certain topics for education. I haven't had one particular favorite blog each week, but rather different bloggers have entertained me and informed me on different things. One particular topic that I found most interesting was seeing the different projects that we have worked on throughout the semester, specifically the PowerPoint and the Weebly. I loved seeing how people used such different designs and what they found difficult while trying to complete this task.
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The next technology-related skill I would like to learn is more about the SmartBoard. Although we saw a little bit while visiting the Tech Sandbox, I would like to go visit again and go into more detail about what exactly this could provide me for my future classroom. While mentoring at a local elementary school, I have gained some skills just watching the teacher use it for her kindergarten class with mathematic games. The teacher has expressed how helpful the SmartBoard can be for student learning, but it is only helpful since she knows how to use it.
Tuesday, November 15, 2016
#9 Blog
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"The Flipped Classroom" is "an innovative blended delivery model that currently has a following in K-12 and postsecondary education." This model is used for students to come prepared to class with the information given to them from pre-lecture videos. This type of model helps students not fall behind on topics, but rather get them ahead, so teachers can analyze the topic in more depth during class time. An example of educational videos is: Khan Academy.
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The podcast for this week talks about "open" education, "open" content, and "open" source. There is so much information and so many materials for teachers to use from the internet that are "open" and readily available. Teachers just must be aware of the material that they are taking because of the copyright information placed on the material from the original owner. I do not know if this is a website for "open" resources, but I have had one teacher use this in the past: LearnZillion. The teacher first must create an account and then the students are able to join. They have different activities and lectures for a multitude of information and different subjects that other teachers have produced.
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There were many skills that I gained through the PowerPoint for Information Dissemination assignment. I never fully realized how much PowerPoint can do until this assignment. I learned about taking out the background of pictures, how to make audio clips for each slide, how to change the Master slide, and how to add the same picture to every slide in my PowerPoint. I liked this assignment because I was constantly learning new skills through the Internet's help. It was also a trial-and-error assignment, in which I was having a lot of trouble with not adding too much information on each slide. On the other hand, I did not like how difficult it was to make sure all of the animations came in, while being synched to the audio voice over. I can definitely improve the audio voice over for next time and add a small game for students to interact more. PowerPoints will be used in my classroom for history and science lessons to grab my students' attention and still make it interactive.
"The Flipped Classroom" is "an innovative blended delivery model that currently has a following in K-12 and postsecondary education." This model is used for students to come prepared to class with the information given to them from pre-lecture videos. This type of model helps students not fall behind on topics, but rather get them ahead, so teachers can analyze the topic in more depth during class time. An example of educational videos is: Khan Academy.
The podcast for this week talks about "open" education, "open" content, and "open" source. There is so much information and so many materials for teachers to use from the internet that are "open" and readily available. Teachers just must be aware of the material that they are taking because of the copyright information placed on the material from the original owner. I do not know if this is a website for "open" resources, but I have had one teacher use this in the past: LearnZillion. The teacher first must create an account and then the students are able to join. They have different activities and lectures for a multitude of information and different subjects that other teachers have produced.
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There were many skills that I gained through the PowerPoint for Information Dissemination assignment. I never fully realized how much PowerPoint can do until this assignment. I learned about taking out the background of pictures, how to make audio clips for each slide, how to change the Master slide, and how to add the same picture to every slide in my PowerPoint. I liked this assignment because I was constantly learning new skills through the Internet's help. It was also a trial-and-error assignment, in which I was having a lot of trouble with not adding too much information on each slide. On the other hand, I did not like how difficult it was to make sure all of the animations came in, while being synched to the audio voice over. I can definitely improve the audio voice over for next time and add a small game for students to interact more. PowerPoints will be used in my classroom for history and science lessons to grab my students' attention and still make it interactive.
Tuesday, November 1, 2016
Slideshare: 17 Ways to Design a Presentation People Want to View
This SlideShare Presentation gives the presenter ways to keep everyone engaged in the topic. Slide 6 perfectly describes that everyone has created at least one presentation that no one is engaged in, so in order to engage people, design is a great tool. Design, First Impressions, The Cover, and Visual Theme are the main ideas for a great presentation.
Monday, October 31, 2016
#8 Blog
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The technology that stood out to me the most at the Sports Psychology lab are the glasses. This could be very beneficial for an elementary school to invest in to gain results as to what certain students look at during a lecture and if it relates to their success in the classroom. With this type of technology, teachers would possibly be able to place students that have wandering eyes in certain parts of the classroom to help them focus more.
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According to Vanderbilt University: Center For Teaching, there are six categories of Blooms Taxonomy: knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation. Through these six categories, Powerpoint presentations can support student learning. These presentations give students the knowledge and topics needed for each lesson, and making sure they can recall information of that given topic. With Powerpoint, students are able to comprehend the information given and possibly go back to make sure they comprehended all of the material. These teachers can use presentations to make the students apply the information to "abstractions" through activities. I will be able to analyze their comprehension results of the information through the activities given and possible quizzes. I, as the teacher, will use open-ended questions within my presentations to make these students think outside the box and use the synthesis technique to build on their prior knowledge. Lastly, I will evaluate the student's learning at the end of each presentation with a graded assignment that directly related to the presentation.
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The website I believe will be most helpful for me to stay informed of technology trends is The Association of Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD). The "Educational Leadership" tab has tons of resources and has monthly articles on ways to stay informed on technology trends. This month's article talks about how to make a lesson plan more interactive through technology and change it from a "lesson plan" to a "learning plan."
The technology that stood out to me the most at the Sports Psychology lab are the glasses. This could be very beneficial for an elementary school to invest in to gain results as to what certain students look at during a lecture and if it relates to their success in the classroom. With this type of technology, teachers would possibly be able to place students that have wandering eyes in certain parts of the classroom to help them focus more.
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According to Vanderbilt University: Center For Teaching, there are six categories of Blooms Taxonomy: knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation. Through these six categories, Powerpoint presentations can support student learning. These presentations give students the knowledge and topics needed for each lesson, and making sure they can recall information of that given topic. With Powerpoint, students are able to comprehend the information given and possibly go back to make sure they comprehended all of the material. These teachers can use presentations to make the students apply the information to "abstractions" through activities. I will be able to analyze their comprehension results of the information through the activities given and possible quizzes. I, as the teacher, will use open-ended questions within my presentations to make these students think outside the box and use the synthesis technique to build on their prior knowledge. Lastly, I will evaluate the student's learning at the end of each presentation with a graded assignment that directly related to the presentation.
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The website I believe will be most helpful for me to stay informed of technology trends is The Association of Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD). The "Educational Leadership" tab has tons of resources and has monthly articles on ways to stay informed on technology trends. This month's article talks about how to make a lesson plan more interactive through technology and change it from a "lesson plan" to a "learning plan."
Tuesday, October 25, 2016
#7 Blog
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Assistive technology is "technology that help people with disabilities more effectively with computer equipment." There are alternate input and output devices for learners that cannot fully use the functioning computer equipment. A few examples of these assistive technologies are: a track stick instead of a mouse, a voice recognition, a magnified screen, reading text, or Brale keyboards. In the textbook, they mention writing technologies (people with cerebral palsy for example), reading equipment, text-to-speech software, Apple Touch devices, and many others. I have a friend that had a traumatic brain injury, so she uses an Apple Touch device to answer questions, talk, and play games that help her brain function. One game that she uses is a game that she touches a picture and it says the word. This helps her slowly process simple words again. In the classroom, adaptive technology might be hard because I would need to make sure all of the software for each student is up-to-date. Also, it will be hard for me to help each student on a different technology throughout the day.
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Weebly is a website I have heard of before, but had never worked with. It took me a good amount of time to figure out what needs to be put into the website and how I need to put it in there. It was very hard to learn how to put the calendar in, probably spending an hour because Tockify wouldn't let me load it and Google Calendar was giving me a lot of troubles. If I could improve for next time, I would like to change my home page a little. Also, a little more assistance would be very helpful. Otherwise, this was a great assignment to learn how to make a website for my future classroom. I will most likely be using a website to provide my students and their parents with all of the homework and announcements for the week.
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Diigo is a website that I had never heard of or used before. After using it for just a few weeks, I have learned so much. Finding sites and being able to post them somewhere with key words is great for teachers to interact quickly and find exactly what they are looking for. With a common "dictionary," it will be very easy for team members to post things and find similar sites easily. This is a great website for my future classroom and professional efforts to quickly be able to find the websites that I thought would be useful to my students.
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