Journal Post #10
In my future career, I hope to be a first-grade teacher so I will be teaching all general subject areas. That said, I see a plethora of ways that I could use Excel and other reporting tools in the classroom. For example, I could use an Excel spreadsheet to keep a record of grades in a specific subject and track students' progress throughout the year. This would allow me to see if there are certain topics where multiple students are having issues or if a student is not progressing as they should be so I can focus in with these students to work towards improvement. Also, I could keep track of student attendance and see if there are any troubling trends. Although many schools have software that already keeps attendance records, I still think that it will be helpful to do it in my future classroom in case there is ever an error in the system. One could also use spreadsheets to report the captured information to supervisors or parents to help you formulate a plan for the student future in the classroom.
After viewing my peers' blogs, I found some information to be extremely useful and fascinating. I was looking through posts about ILPs, because I found the project to be rather fun and I wanted to see what other students did, and I found a fantastic presentation on EdModo. I have heard about EdModo before, but I did not understand its application or how it functioned; however, after viewing the presentation, I learned a lot about how I could use it in my future classroom. Also, I read about a Lynda.com tutorial about how to persuade people. Although they're talking more about how to do so in the business spheres, I found out different ways I could apply this information in a classroom help work with parents and colleagues. In addition to ILPs, I looked through posts that talked about topics we discussed in class that I did not fully understand. For example, I went through how other people applied CRAP to websites we made and looked at. It really helped me to understand the various ways these principles could be applied and changed for improvement.
In the future, I want to improve my skills in using different Adobe products, specifically In-Design and Premiere. These applications have a lot to offer for my future classrooms, like creating more interesting multi-media presentations and worksheets. Also, In-Design can be used to make flyers that could be given to parents for reminders or to make posters that could be hung in the classroom. Premiere offers fun tools to make interesting video presentation the could be used in the classroom or to make helpful podcasts that could be viewed at home for homework or to communicate with parents. To learn more about these products, I could either attend a MOOC that discusses how to use these applications or complete a Lynda.com tutorial n the subject. I will likely complete the tutorial because I am more familiar with how they work and how to keep track of y progress, thanks to y first ILP. I am not opposed to using MOOCs, but I nervous that I will spend more time learning to navigate the MOOC than learning about how to use the application.
After viewing my peers' blogs, I found some information to be extremely useful and fascinating. I was looking through posts about ILPs, because I found the project to be rather fun and I wanted to see what other students did, and I found a fantastic presentation on EdModo. I have heard about EdModo before, but I did not understand its application or how it functioned; however, after viewing the presentation, I learned a lot about how I could use it in my future classroom. Also, I read about a Lynda.com tutorial about how to persuade people. Although they're talking more about how to do so in the business spheres, I found out different ways I could apply this information in a classroom help work with parents and colleagues. In addition to ILPs, I looked through posts that talked about topics we discussed in class that I did not fully understand. For example, I went through how other people applied CRAP to websites we made and looked at. It really helped me to understand the various ways these principles could be applied and changed for improvement.
In the future, I want to improve my skills in using different Adobe products, specifically In-Design and Premiere. These applications have a lot to offer for my future classrooms, like creating more interesting multi-media presentations and worksheets. Also, In-Design can be used to make flyers that could be given to parents for reminders or to make posters that could be hung in the classroom. Premiere offers fun tools to make interesting video presentation the could be used in the classroom or to make helpful podcasts that could be viewed at home for homework or to communicate with parents. To learn more about these products, I could either attend a MOOC that discusses how to use these applications or complete a Lynda.com tutorial n the subject. I will likely complete the tutorial because I am more familiar with how they work and how to keep track of y progress, thanks to y first ILP. I am not opposed to using MOOCs, but I nervous that I will spend more time learning to navigate the MOOC than learning about how to use the application.
Using MOOCs is a great way to improve and add to your skills!
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