#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.