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Blog Journal #10

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     From the 5th assignment on PowerPoint I learned to utilize the button features that allow for fast travel between slides, something that I had never understood before now. I liked being able to create an interactive lesson that I could share with others in the form of a playable game! I wasn't a huge fan of how my PowerPoint refused to sync up between devices, so I ended up needing to re-create the whole thing, but that just goes to show that computers are not infallible. I think next time I would stick to only working on one device so that I could spend more time working on one project rather than re-creating the same one.     The most likely way that I would use data collection tools would be as a quick, easy way to take math tests, or to gauge opinions on how much my students like my class. In teaching kindergarten I don't see a whole lot of ways to utilize the technology side of education in my classroom. Most students will be around 4-5, too young to r...
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Bitmoji Classroom

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Professional Development

 I found a resource for professional development for teachers that includes resources like help with overcoming barriers, instructional excellence, and leadership! It can be found here: https://tinyurl.com/2hfk9wxs
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Blog Journal #9

      My experiences with distance learning in K-12 were mostly limited to Zoom and Canvas, besides the two classes that I took online in middle school. They were pretty effective, and allowed me to get my work done relatively well, at least Zoom and Canvas have. In my experience the less said about the online schooling, the better. The only experience that I have has with a PowerPoint for distance learning was thein we did for this class that is beyond the K-12 level, but I would not mind doing another one or seeing more of them in the future! I enjoy the fact that it caters to all learning types by providing images, sound, and text that can be read by the students.     Open educational resources (OERs) are schooling resources that allow students access to a wide variety of information on different subjects that they can find and learn about at their own pace. They are made to be a stand alone way to learn, and are available online, so almost anybody can access...
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Blog Journal #8

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      While working on our web design project I got to incorporate some of the skills that we were introduced to like color-coordination and contrast, and repetition within the color scheme and alignment of the text and text fonts. The color coordination was mostly found in the headers for each section that we kept the same golden color form FSU's color pallet, something that contrasts nicely with the plain black text that was used in the rest of the website. Again, the repetition is mostly found in the similar colors that we used and in the fonts that remained the same across all of the different pages we created. I mostly see myself using these skills to create appealing newsletters for parents or little posters for advertisement for school events around campus, otherwise they will be used for making a little 'about me' page that new students and their parents can read to get to know a bit more about me before they meet me in person for the first time.     QR ...
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Blog Journal #7

     The class pages for Pattie Elementary School  are small, simply designed, and all link to a video of some kind that is designed to introduce the incoming students to their teacher. The main welcome page also features their school list of items that each student is expected to bring, and a list of wanted items if any parents have things they are willing to donate on that list as well! Alongside a translation in Spanish for any non-native English speakers so that they can know what to bring too! A couple of the teachers have their email or Twitter that the parents can contact them at, while the others seem to want to wait to share that information until the child is officially enrolled in the class so they don't get any spam notifications.     To effectively get all of my duties done and establish easy, open communication I will likely use ClassDojo. ClassDojo is an educational technology company that not only allows for communication between parents and...
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Blog Post #6

      Blogging is a new (to me), interesting way to share thoughts and feelings. I  like that I can ramble on about all of my thoughts without anybody telling me to shut up or getting annoyed at my thoughts and opinions. If someone doesn't want to hear them, they just stop reading, and I like the freedom of voicing what I believe matters. I'm not a huge fan of having to manually type what I'm thinking, but it's not as bad as it could be, so I don't have much to complain about. I have learned that nobody interacts with my blog, likely because I don't interact with anyone else's but my point still stands. Blogging is not as active of a site as it used to be in its prime.     I will most definitely use YouTube as web 2.0 tool in my classroom! I could easily create educational videos for my students, and they can communicate in the comments amongst themselves, as well as being able to ask me for help with anything the find too confusing. I also love the fact t...
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