Monday, April 17, 2017
ILP “Design” - Prezi
I decided to do my second ILP on the design tool Prezi. I designed a Prezi about the 1990's and the key event that took place during this time period. My experience with this tool was very pleasant and entertaining. It was a fun new way to present information and I hope you enjoy it. http://prezi.com/ryz1jrmv_yw3/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy
Sunday, April 9, 2017
Blog Post #10
I think for the field I intend to teach in, High School History, I think that data collection and reporting will be a valuable tool for lessons and classroom. I would utilize surveys for planning lessons and finding out a class stance on certain lessons. For example, I would construct surveys to see which style of lesson the students would like to learn that week. By doing this, I'd not only be giving the students a say but giving them an opportunity to choose the way they learn the material for the week. I'd also construct surveys that would let me know what information the students have the most and least knowledge on and which material they feel the most comfortable talking about. By doing this, I'd make the classroom a more comfortable place to learn and express one's opinion. I would utilize reporting by incorporating it into lessons. For example, I could have a paper with the stats of certain economical events like the great depression or the industrial revolution. I would have the students put the stats through excel, have them find the median, mean, and average, and have them pull the graph so that they can themselves see the dramatic changes happening during these time periods.
Looking through other's blogs, one topic that I saw expressed was a disagreement of the Flipped Classroom. I found that I was not the only one who felt the Flipped Classroom was a flawed method. Other's also felt that the use of the method was more harmful to students then helpful. When looking at the other blogs, it was clear that we all shared a common reasoning for our displeasure for this method. We all feel that this method actually discourages student participation, especially with the use of videos that the students would have to watch at home. We all seemed to think that a student would be lazy and unlikely to watch the video especially if it's for school. Another topic I've found interesting is the other's praise of Diigo. Most of us, including me, have found Diigo to be a blessing in disguise. There was obviously a type of skepticism when first using it at first but when we got used to it, it became a part of our college life. I think the best part about it is that whenever I see other's blog posts or tweets, there's always one or two people shouting out the app. I think that this is one app that is gonna be used by all of us throughout the rest of college and into our careers.
The next technology-related skill I would like to learn next is probably the use of another Microsoft office tool like Publisher or OneNote. I would like to know this for future reference. I feel that having a full understanding of the Microsoft Office tools could help me not only job opportunity wise but also teaching wise. For example, I could get hired for a specific education job because of my understanding of the educational technology being utilized by that class material. I could also be a key influence in a students use of education tech if I showed a full understanding of the tech and help them use it appropriately and beneficially. I will achieve this goal most likely by trying to find instructions or videos on the internet explaining the use of these material, but if those do not work I would most likely go to the campus library and maybe look for opportunities, instructors, or material that would help gain a greater understanding of the material.
This concludes my final blog post. Thank you Taehyeong for the helping gain a greater understanding of technology and making class enjoyable. And thank you to the rest of guys for being great classmates and great people. Hopefully I see you all outside of class and become friends with you all. I hope you guys enjoyed my blogs and I hope we all finish the class with A's.
Looking through other's blogs, one topic that I saw expressed was a disagreement of the Flipped Classroom. I found that I was not the only one who felt the Flipped Classroom was a flawed method. Other's also felt that the use of the method was more harmful to students then helpful. When looking at the other blogs, it was clear that we all shared a common reasoning for our displeasure for this method. We all feel that this method actually discourages student participation, especially with the use of videos that the students would have to watch at home. We all seemed to think that a student would be lazy and unlikely to watch the video especially if it's for school. Another topic I've found interesting is the other's praise of Diigo. Most of us, including me, have found Diigo to be a blessing in disguise. There was obviously a type of skepticism when first using it at first but when we got used to it, it became a part of our college life. I think the best part about it is that whenever I see other's blog posts or tweets, there's always one or two people shouting out the app. I think that this is one app that is gonna be used by all of us throughout the rest of college and into our careers.
The next technology-related skill I would like to learn next is probably the use of another Microsoft office tool like Publisher or OneNote. I would like to know this for future reference. I feel that having a full understanding of the Microsoft Office tools could help me not only job opportunity wise but also teaching wise. For example, I could get hired for a specific education job because of my understanding of the educational technology being utilized by that class material. I could also be a key influence in a students use of education tech if I showed a full understanding of the tech and help them use it appropriately and beneficially. I will achieve this goal most likely by trying to find instructions or videos on the internet explaining the use of these material, but if those do not work I would most likely go to the campus library and maybe look for opportunities, instructors, or material that would help gain a greater understanding of the material.
This concludes my final blog post. Thank you Taehyeong for the helping gain a greater understanding of technology and making class enjoyable. And thank you to the rest of guys for being great classmates and great people. Hopefully I see you all outside of class and become friends with you all. I hope you guys enjoyed my blogs and I hope we all finish the class with A's.
Monday, April 3, 2017
Blog Post 9
The flipped classroom is blended delivery model that is currently gaining a following in K-12 & postsecondary education. This model is an outgrowth of educational vodcasting, aka education video cast, of content. It was first promoted by teachers Aaron Sams and Jonathan Bergman of Woodlands Park High School in Woodland Park, Colorado. This method began by making lectures available online to students. From there it expanded to "flipping" the way students and teachers spend their time in the classroom. In this model, students listened to prerecorded video lectures for homework before coming into class the next day, changing it up from the usual lecture style lessons. This method caused students to work on group or individual activities in effort to gain a better understanding of the material. This method lead to the creation of various different methods that utilize educational technology in today's modern classroom. I think the best example of the kind of videos utilized for these classrooms are crash course. When ever I had a class that utilized this kind of method, these are the type of videos we used. https://www.youtube.com/crashcourse
Open Source is a term that basically refers to software, more specifically the programming or coding of the software is being referring by the word open. Open Source Software is software whose source code is made available for anyone to access, allowing software developers to modify programs for particular use or to add new features. The community of developers and users has grown around a lot of open source programs. People may turn to open source software when they are working with a limited budget because most Open Source Software is free. Open Source Software really gain grown with the rise of the internet, which lead to a massive retooling of computing source codes. The Open Source Software movement arose to clarify the environment that the new copyright, licensing, domain, and consumer issues created. When looking up this term, I found a lot of useful websites that might come into use in future teaching situation such as Azure and OpenOffice. Both website provided details of the open source material and the uses it has. http://download.openoffice.fm/get/openoffice.php?aid=controlinline&source=bing
I feel that the second power point assignment was a lot more helpful in developing my PowerPoint skills then the first one was. When I was doing the second assignment I was learning a lot more interesting skills to creating a PowerPoint like skipping out of order on slides, disabling the clicking/pressing the space bar, and the one I found to be the most interesting which was the mouse over feature. This feature basically makes it able to go to the next slide by moving the mouse over an object on the current slide. On the first assignment, I didn't really find anything to be new except for the recording the lecture feature. In fact, that's probably what I liked most about the first assignment, recording the PowerPoint. It really help me realize where I am public speaking wise. What I liked most about the second assignment was being able to make a create-your-own-adventure story through PowerPoint. I really liked this because it let me utilize the action feature that would allow me to skip to any slide I wanted. What I didn't like about both assignments was trying to involve 4 or more slide layouts. I found this to be very difficult since I had a strong idea of what I wanted to do for both assignment. What I would improve upon in the first assignment is vocal presentation. I felt like I stuttered and messed up a lot with my pronunciation. What I would improve up in the second assignment is the presentation. I wish I could used better imagery when creating my slides.
Open Source is a term that basically refers to software, more specifically the programming or coding of the software is being referring by the word open. Open Source Software is software whose source code is made available for anyone to access, allowing software developers to modify programs for particular use or to add new features. The community of developers and users has grown around a lot of open source programs. People may turn to open source software when they are working with a limited budget because most Open Source Software is free. Open Source Software really gain grown with the rise of the internet, which lead to a massive retooling of computing source codes. The Open Source Software movement arose to clarify the environment that the new copyright, licensing, domain, and consumer issues created. When looking up this term, I found a lot of useful websites that might come into use in future teaching situation such as Azure and OpenOffice. Both website provided details of the open source material and the uses it has. http://download.openoffice.fm/get/openoffice.php?aid=controlinline&source=bing
I feel that the second power point assignment was a lot more helpful in developing my PowerPoint skills then the first one was. When I was doing the second assignment I was learning a lot more interesting skills to creating a PowerPoint like skipping out of order on slides, disabling the clicking/pressing the space bar, and the one I found to be the most interesting which was the mouse over feature. This feature basically makes it able to go to the next slide by moving the mouse over an object on the current slide. On the first assignment, I didn't really find anything to be new except for the recording the lecture feature. In fact, that's probably what I liked most about the first assignment, recording the PowerPoint. It really help me realize where I am public speaking wise. What I liked most about the second assignment was being able to make a create-your-own-adventure story through PowerPoint. I really liked this because it let me utilize the action feature that would allow me to skip to any slide I wanted. What I didn't like about both assignments was trying to involve 4 or more slide layouts. I found this to be very difficult since I had a strong idea of what I wanted to do for both assignment. What I would improve upon in the first assignment is vocal presentation. I felt like I stuttered and messed up a lot with my pronunciation. What I would improve up in the second assignment is the presentation. I wish I could used better imagery when creating my slides.
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