Blog Journal 10

 

After my time here at Florida State, I aspire to be a second-grade teacher. I would use data collection tools to gauge my students' understanding. I remember being in school and my teachers would use a learning scale with a range of 1 to 5. 1 would be the lowest score meaning I did not understand completely. 5 would be the highest score meaning that I understood completely. This is useful because students can reflect on the lessons. Then my students can individually let me know what they need help with. 

The topics that I found most interesting on my classmates’ blogs are the website design and the newsletter design. I think that everyone did a pretty good job on these two topics. There was a lot of creativity and good designs and layouts. I also really enjoyed reading introductions and meeting my classmates there. One last topic that I found interesting is the privacy issue. Privacy is a very real and relatable issue in our world of technology today. 

Technology-related skills are important to have especially now during the pandemic. A skill that I would like to learn next is design. I would like to use design in my classroom to create my lesson plans and manage my class website. I think that this would help me to have more interactive and engine lessons because I desire to teach elementary school. I will achieve this goal by using YouTube, Wix, and Canva. I have experience using these tools and they are easy to use. I think with a lot of practice I can learn how to make interactive and engaging lessons. 

Blog Journal 9

Now that I have become a distance learner I have lost some of my motivation for learning. I think that meeting after meeting without physical interaction can get boring. I dislike how everything has become more of a burden than an experience. For example, completing half of your assignment and then your internet goes out or your computer crashes. Now you have to wait for these issues to be resolved, the assignment takes longer and becomes less interesting. To improve the experience of my future students I think do things that are more interactive and ensuring that if possible most work of the homework can be done effectively. 

Open Education Resources is just what it sounds like. Educational resources that are open and available to anyone to use. Teachers can use these resources as long as they provide the proper credit to the owner when using or reproducing these resources. Not only can teachers access these resources but students can as well. Here is a link to a blog about Open Educational Resources: https://blog.tcea.org/tag/open-education-resources/

The new skills that I have acquired from the Powerpoint assignment is learning how to audibly present and save that file. I also learned the difference between a linear and a non-linear PowerPoint. I liked how the First PowerPoint looked after I completed everything. I did not like adding the shapes and transitions to the non-linear Powerpoint so far. If I were to do this assignment again, I would focus more of the logistics of the powerpoint instead of the designs. Down below is some of my work for these two assignments.

Blog 8 Journal

 The Web Design was an interesting assignment to complete. I learned how to create a web page frozen. I also learned how to add images and apps on the Wix platform. I liked how the website came with a template, weebly was pretty hard to use because it had no set templates. This assignment can be used to create a teacher website for myself. I can see myself using this website to post information for my students and their parents. I linked my website down below:  

https://victoriad289.wixsite.com/deeelms

Using Diigo I learned how to annotate and bookmark websites. This application can be useful for myself in the classroom by creating a treasure chest of tools to use in my classroom. Team members can use this tool to find useful resources for their teams. In my individual professional efforts I can use Diigo to find websites that will be useful to me in my classroom and save resources for myself. 

Technology is very embedded in our society and it is constantly changing. A part of being successful is being proficient in technology. Today teachers need to be highly proficient with technology. As a teacher a website that I could use to stay informed of technology trends in education is elearningindustry.com. This website has articles trends, learning systems, design and development, instructional design, best practices, free resources for learning how to use technology. On the websites there are also events and seminars. What I like about this website is the vast amount of information that is available. 

I linked the website down below: 

https://elearningindustry.com/subjects/elearning-articles/elearning-trends