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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 minimalist idea of technology in the classroom, but reading other blogs showed me ways that I could expand beyond that. 

A technology-related skill I would like to learn next is how to effectively use softwares like Focus, for I will be using those extensively in the future. I'm sure I can figure out how to use it pretty quickly, but I would like to be able to use it well and to work through the problems I will likely face with it. I can watch videos, either on a MOOC or YouTube, about the basics of the software, and joining a MOOC on the subject would give me more in-depth knowledge. I can also ask a teacher back home or at FSUS if they can show me the teacher side of it, which would give me hands-on experience. 

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