Blog Number 10

• I will definitely use excel when I am teaching. Excel is useful in many different ways. I will you it for charts in my classroom. I will use this to keep track of students grades, putting there name, then their grades, and then getting the average. I could also use the pie chart to teach simple math lessons. The most useful way will be keeping track of their grades
• I found it interesting how different technology is useful for different people, but a lot are also the same. I feel like everyone finds powerpoint very useful which I agree. Every since I started school a powerpoint was in the classroom and it was being used somehow. Now, we are just developing more and more skills with powerpoint that can help us when we teach.
• I have always struggled with excel so I am glad that it was we are doing now. I hope to feel comfortable with excel after this lesson on it. I know it always gets brought up and can also be useful in the classroom. I think if I feel comfortable with excel it will help me in the long run.

•  A flipped classroom is an instructional strategy and a type of blended learning that reverses the traditional learning environment by delivering instructional content, often online, outside of the classroom. It is good because it increases student-teacher interaction. It allows teachers to know their student better. It is nice because it enable student to learn about the information before class, it will help them feel more comfortable in the classroom and be more prepared. 

• Open educational resources are resources that anyone can use. These resources are allowed to be copied, sent around, used over again, and it is completely legal and open for everyone.  One OER that I found is called librarian chick. It includes everything from books to quizzes and videos. It includes directories on open source and open educational resources. The link is blow

• http://librarianchick.com/mediawiki/index.php?title=Main_Page
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• I learned a lot of new skills from the PowerPoints. I learned how to add the shapes and make them lead from one slide to the next. I knew how to add transitions, but I always enjoy adding those. I learned how to add pictures from the internet right onto the powerpoint. I learned how to add a hyperlink to the powerpoint as well. I personally do not think there is a need to disable the powerpoint from going to the next slide. Next time I won't have any trouble figuring out how to do these things because I was able to learn through the powerpoints I just created. 

Blog Journal 8

• I really enjoyed using diigo in this class. At first diigo confused me because it has to be downloaded each time to different computers. I think it is very useful being if I have a topic I want to research I am able to annotate it using diigo and go back and look at what I highlighting within each site. This can be useful in my classroom because I can highlight websites before I teach the lessons the next day and it will assist me. With team members this is good because you can all put your input into one topic. We can share the website with each other and all highlight it. For any professional effort it is easy to find sites and highlight them to help you in any profession.

• Powerpoint could be used to support student learning at each level of Bloom's Taxonomy. It includes creating, evaluating, analyzing, applying, understanding, and remembering. You create a powerpoint, designing and planning it. You evaluate it by deciding what to involve in the power point for student learning. You analyze it by categorizing it and creating different slides to separate the information. Applying by illustrating what needs to be incorporated. Understanding by discussing information in the slides that pertain to the information being portrayed. Remembering by describing the information in th PowerPoints and recalling the facts and basic concepts. 

• It is very important for teachers to stay aware and updated with new technology updates. Technology is incorporated in the classroom in many different ways so it is very important to be aware of this. Even powerpoint updates, because that is something that is used in a normal classroom everyday. There are different websites that can help stay informed on these upcoming relevant technology trends. One website is:

•   https://www.lifehack.org/articles/technology/10-must-read-tech-sites-stay-updated.html

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I decided to do an interview for the ILP #2. I interviewed my middle school teacher. I did this through twitter messenger. I reached out to her and asked it I could interview her on technology in the classroom and did so! Here are screenshots of our interview:

Blog Journal 7

• When I was in highschool twitter was a very popular social media platform. We used to it communicate with our friends, post everything, and follow funny or relatable accounts. Once I got to college I stopped using twitter. For this class we used it in a very useful way and I enjoyed it. I learned that there is a lot of pages on twitter that are informational, not just for fun. It is perfect for teachers because we can get ideas on lessons and different things in the classroom. It is also helpful to keep up with teacher information.I have not experienced any issues, twitter is very easy to understand and use.

• I used weebly to create my web design. I like weebly and I did not like weebly. I like that it gave me a outline. It helped me because I did not have to start from scratch in creating a whole website. I did not like it because it was difficult moving things around from the way it was originally set up. I like that I learned the skills of creating my own website. I will improve on this and finding ways to move things around the way I like. I will definitely use this in the future to share with my students' parents in the classroom. link to website: https://osd17eme.weebly.com/

• Assistive technology is any device, software, or equipment that helps people work around their challenges. Some examples of assistive technology are text-to-speech and word prediction. Assistive technology includes low-tech tools, too, like pencil grips. Adaptive technology refers to special versions of already existing technologies or tools that provide enhancements or different ways of interacting with the technology. The adaptation helps individuals with a disability or impairment accomplish a specific task. I have used assistive technologies. An example is an audio book rather than reading a book to help me get through it. Challenges can be added when using adaptive technologies in the classroom because it might distract some students and it might make the students using these feel uncomfortable because they are doing something different from the rest. 

Blog Journal 6

•  I decided to look on a teacher page for Valley View elementary school. I did so because this is the elementary school that I attended when I was in elementary school. Within this website they included a mission statement and many pictures of students. They have news and events, dates for school breaks. There is a mini letter to the teachers and videos about the school. They have links that go to all of the different departments in the school. Lastly, they have student highlights.
• https://www.montville.net/5/home

• I envision myself using technology to accomplish my professional responsibilities more efficiently and effectively in many different ways. To start, I will only use the technology that I am very comfortable with and I know I can use to benefit my classroom. I will use the smart board, most likely every day, to teach lessons. I will use Microsoft word as well for all of my lessons. I will now use diigo to be able to go back to websites that I thought were useful. I will use PowerPoint to share my information to my class as well.

• When I visited the sandbox the tool that was my favorite was the 3D crayons. These would be very useful in my classroom. This 3D crayon made a little drawing that I would normal do on a piece of paper, come to life, by actually creating an object in 3D. I created and flower and I heart. For my first grade class I could use this to teach them shapes. They could each 3D draw different shapes and pass them around to learn the different shapes. 

ILP

I created an infographic for my Independent Learning Project. I did so by using a tool called Piktochart. Within my piktochart I created a timeline of technology throughout the years and what technology may come about in the future. I think this is very prevalent to our class because we are learning about technology in the classroom and I researched the evolution of technology.
The link to my piktochart is below

https://create.piktochart.com/output/41490857-untitled-infographic

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