EME2040 Blog: osd: November 2019

Thursday, November 14, 2019

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
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.

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: