#10 reflection and tech in the classroom

I would like to be teaching art to high schoolers, and I think that I could use both data collection and reporting in my classroom. Excel would be a great tool to help me organize my grades for individual assignments, keep records of student progress, see trends in grades over all and on individual assignments, as well as make it easy to calculate final grades. I would like to use data collection after assignments to evaluate students feelings on them, which would allow me to make changes or improvements for the next school year.

The blogs that I found most interesting reviewing were the ILPs. These assignments showed the creativity of my classmates and allowed me to be exposed to new forms of technology and new ideas that I could use in my classroom. The posts were really well written and often included programs I had never heard of before or thought to use in an educational setting.

The next tech skill that I would like to learn would be a better understanding of Photoshop. As a future art teacher, I think that this is a pretty basic program that can be used in many different ways in the classroom. I would like to be able to teach this to my students and incorporate technology in my curriculum. I could work on developing this skill by taking on the lynda classes that fsu offers for free to students as well as just going into the program and exploring the tools.

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#9 Flipped Classroom and Powerpoint

The flipped classroom inverts traditional teaching models to provide greater in class interaction for students. The traditional model of in class lecture by a teacher with concept understanding through homework at home is reversed. Teachers can use technology such as video lectures to have their students to the instructional, lecture style learning at home. This then allows teachers to use class time to do activities and check/develop a deeper understanding of the material. One website that provides video lectures to students is Khan Academy.

Through the Information Dissemination project, I think I learned the most about powerpoint. I learned how to use master slides, which is a tool that I cannot believe I did not know about before. There have been so many times that I got frustrated by slide formatting and this would have been a solution. I also learned how to create audio narration for a powerpoint in this project and this could be useful to me for online materials for my class. I liked that I was able to create something similar to a class material but I found the recording process a bit frustrating.

Through the Interaction assignment, I learned about including audio clips into animations in a powerpoint, which could be useful to add to a class powerpoint. In this assignment I really enjoyed creating a game and if I were to do it again, I think I would just like to have done something a little more complex.

Reflection of diigo

As a tool, I think DIIGO does a really good job of organizing one's personal information and findings as well as connection someone to the ideas and articles of other people. I liked the ability to bookmark an article on a separate website, because it allowed for transfer to other computers besides a personal laptop. I also really enjoyed the tagging as a means of organizing the articles, so ideas do not get lost, and the ability to highlight and comment, so you can easily return to specific ideas on a website. Both of these features make it much simpler to recall the information on a specific site that you are wanting to remember.

I think that I will use social bookmarking in the future, specifically the bookmarking of websites and the groups. I will be able to use the bookmarking for both personal and professional usage, and the tags will give me the ability to separate these two while remaining on the same platform. I think that I will also use the DIIGO groups as a source of professional development, allowing me to connect with other educators and get new ideas for the classroom.

ILP Design- Prezi

For my Independent Learning Project, I used Prezi to create a presentation about watercolor techniques. Prezi is a presentation tool that exists online and allows the user to create an interactive presentation building off a present template. It allows the user to insert content such as images or PowerPoint slides within the prezi itself. Prezi functions on movement as the program pans from one slide to another, creating visual interest.

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#8 Technology Trends

Last week we visited a lab that helps accommodate students with disabilities. It offered a wide range of technology that would make it easier for students to perform daily educational tasks. My favorite technology that was introduced was the LiveScribe pen, and this could have broad applications in schools for students with and without disabilities. The pen records a lecture and then can match the timing in the recording to notes that are written down by the student. This could be helpful for students who are reviewing for tests, to connect the teachers actual words to their notes, or for students that have difficulty processing all the information during a lecture, they would have chance to go back and hear the content again.

Bloom's taxonomy is six major categories that divide up educational goals. The main categories are: remember, understand, apply, analyze, evaluate, and create. Powerpoint can be used to help achieve these educational goals in a lesson. For example, a history lesson on the civil war may use PowerPoint to present information to the class. For remember, the teacher might list terminology and definitions onto the PowerPoint slide for the student to memorize. For understand, the teacher might include a bulleted list of questions for the students to answer aloud in class. For applying, the students might use a line tool to edit a photo of the US. The could draw a line that shows where the country was divided, in between the North and South. For analyzing, the teacher might insert a chart into the slide and have the students help them fill out a cause and effect chart for the causes of the war and their impending effects. For evaluating, a teacher might embed a video of a historian discussing his opinion on the reasons behind the south leaving the union. This could cause a class discussion where students either need to defend or argue against the historian's viewpoint. For create, the students could be divided up into groups and have to create their PowerPoints on a specific civil war battle which they will need to present to the class.

The Huffington Post Tech is a division of the main Huffington Post, a news website that posts daily updates on current events and trends, that deals specifically with technology. The site includes daily updated content on trends in technology from a variety of authors and technological fields.

DIIGO #4

This week, I learned that there are a lot more solutions to students with disabilities using technology than I had originally thought. There are increasing solutions for students with disabilities such as dyslexia, with programs that are not only helpful but also can be fun and inspire learning for students.