ILP "Design" - Prezi

https://prezi.com/jhhorgjozp0h/sskc21/ 

For the independent learning project #2 I chose to design a Prezi. I have never created a Prezi, but I saw a few students projects when we presented and I thought it was worth a try. My experience using Prezi was great. It looks very professional and is more interesting than a PowerPoint, but it was very simple to make. I used a template that was already on the website and I just had to add text (I also added a video). Overall, I loved Prezi and I know that as a teacher I will use it more than PowerPoint because it is easier to use and it is more attention-grabbing. I think that Prezi gets the information across while interesting the audience.

Dog Survey

https://fsu.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_2aao7ifnsPBHj4p 

10 - FINAL BLOG!!!

I plan on using data collection tools, such as surveys, very often in my classroom. As a kindergarten teacher, surveys will be most important for the parents to use. I want to use these surveys to obtain information on which parents are coming to open house, which parents are coming into my classroom for class parties and what they plan on bringing, etc. I can use surveys with my students regarding which movie they want to watch, which games we should play during free time, etc. I believe that surveys are very important for both the parents of kindergarten students and students themselves.

The topics I found most interesting in my classmates’ blogs were the independent learning projects. This topic was most interesting to me because most of the projects were different, not everyone wrote about the same project. I liked to see what my peers were interested in and how they plan on using the different devices and programs in their future career.

I think it would be really interesting to learn how to use a 3-D printer. I hope that one day these printers become very popular in schools. Students should be able to design things using up-to-date technology. If I learn how to use a 3-D printer, I could help students in the future.

I might achieve my future educational technology-related goals by reviewing what I learned in this technology class and applying it to my own class as a teacher. I want to be a teacher that is knowledgeable and up-to-date with technology. A teacher like this is quick and effective. All teacher should know about technology, especially in this day and age, and be able to use all different types of programs (especially the common Microsoft ones).

9 - Flipped Classroom, Poll Everywhere, and PowerPoint

“The Flipped Classroom is an innovative blended delivery model that currently has a following in K-12 and postsecondary education” (chapter 10). The idea of the flipped classroom allows for video casts to be made. These videos were first intended for students to use when they missed class. I do not think that this idea is very efficient. The whole point of school is for students to actually attend class and learn from their teacher. Most students are better off learning in the classroom environment. It is very hard to learn when students are at home (or even anywhere else for that matter) because of all of the possible distractions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0_TWQTrJ-k

An interesting web-based resource that I might use for professional development is Poll Everywhere. Poll Everywhere is “the world’s first audience response tool for mobile devices.” I used Poll Everywhere in my high school classes very often. We used this tool to take pop quizzes and just surveys to see how students felt about different topics.

https://www.polleverywhere.com/about

I learned a lot from this PowerPoint assignment. I did not know that you could download a PowerPoint template from the internet and it would open right in your PowerPoint application. I really liked this assignment because it is something I will definitely use when I become a teacher. Also, it was very fun to make. I think students really like games because they are learning while having fun at the same time.

8 - gesture based multi-touch, digital divide, PowerPoint assignment

I believe that gesture-based multi-touch displays hold the biggest promise for education. I especially think this because touch screen devices are so common now. This technology is used by more than three quarters of the people in the world. This technology is utilized in education, in the medical field, just for fun and so much more. Gesture-based technology can be used for almost anything. It is changing our world for the better and it is benefiting so many different people.

The digital divide is the gap between people who do and do not have access to technology. You would think that most people use technology…but some don’t have access and some people don’t have internet access. It benefits some students, but not others. I am on the side of the digital divide that uses technology daily. I think that this divide can run my classroom into some challenges. This is because some of my students will have access to internet and technology while others don’t. It will put some students at an advantage, while pushing the students who do not have access to the curb. I will have to take a survey and ask which students do and do not have access and then go from there. If there are students who do not have access to technology and the internet, then I will most likely hold hours after class for the students to work on classroom computers before they go home.

I learned a lot about PowerPoint that I didn’t already know. I thought I was pretty good at using PowerPoint but there were so many aspects that I had to research in order to figure out the assignment. I did not like the part where I had to make a slide master because there wasn’t anything that I wanted to have on every slide (not to mention how confusing it was trying to do it on a different PowerPoint at home).