I Love Paper, but I Guess Technology Is Okay

I think I will use surveys for learning about my students and their interests. It would be a good way to quickly compile information about their favorite subject, favorite book, extracurricular activities, and so on. I think I will use Excel to keep track of my students' grades. I like how Excel can give you the highest and lowest grade, the average, the median, and a chart with only a little work. Although almost all schools have online gradebooks now, I can get more information from Excel without having to worry about reliability  or messing up the official grades.  The topics I found most interesting from classmates' blogs were their experiences in the independent learning projects and their varying perspectives. Reviewing the ILP notes was a good way to determine which technologies I should check out in the future and which ones I should probably avoid. My favorite part about reading the blogs was finding out how the other people in my class thought. I have a very minim...

The Flipped Classroom is a classroom where students learn the information at home and do the homework in class. The teacher often creates videos for the students to watch at home and then works more one-on-one with the students during class. This classroom format can work well for history and English classes, which thrive with discussion and students asking about what they are confused on. It is significantly more difficult to do in classes that are not reading-based, like math and science. I think that in these classes, parts of the Flipped classroom should be used, but not all of them.  Open educational resources are materials that anyone can view without having to pay for them. This is especially helpful for college students who need to buy many textbooks they might not use later on. The California State University System created  MERLOT  , which contains thousands of materials for students to use. There are tutorials, simulations, journals, reference materials, an...

Voice Thread Video For this ILP, I participated in a LinkedIn Learning video on the different types of assessments. I generally enjoyed the experience, for the website was easy to use and the video was a good introduction to the topic of assessments. The main topic was on the difference between formative and summative assessments, and the teacher stressed the importance of using these assessments as a way of communication between the teacher and the student. Through their work, students communicate to the teacher what they do and do not know, and the teacher can communicate back through helpful feedback. I did not like how fast-paced the video was, and in the future I will look for videos that are longer and more focused. I will definitely use LinkedIn Learning again for my personal professional development. 

I liked using Diigo as a website annotating software and for collecting articles. Being able to annotate the articles are very helpful for me because it helps me collect my thoughts and figure out where else I want to go with the information. This will be useful in the classroom because students can collect data for group research projects and useful in my personal development because I can also collect articles that I want to use. I like using Twitter for this because I can add to the education web, but Twitter doesn't allow for the annotation of articles and having a personal area to look at everything.  PowerPoint can be used to support student learning at each level of Bloom's Taxonomy. At the remembering level, students are presented information they need to learn. At the understanding level, the information is just presented, and at the applying level, students can given examples of ways to apply it. For analyzing, evaluating, and creating, the powerpoint can give as...