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Blog Journal #10

With data collection surveys, or excel tools as a teacher for many reasons. As a 6th grade math teacher, by having data collection surveys which gathers information on certain topics. Usually by having information provided on a data collection survey it is easier to comprehend. It is also more organized which allows students to also have a better understanding. Excel is also very useful because it provides many calculations for math problems in each category. Excel is often useful for for a math teacher by looking at numbers provided. I found that there were many interesting topics from reviewing my classmates blogs. Most of the blogs had to do with many similar subjects that helps people relate and have a better understanding of it. Some topics i found interesting all had to do with todays technology. This is very important with todays society with the large amount of technology use. A technology-related skill that I would like to learn next would be computer security. I feel li...

Blog Journal #9

The flipped classroom is used for having a better teaching experience. This is also described as a instructional strategy that changes the traditional learning environment by giving instructional content and instruction outside of the classroom. This instructional design has more activities which results in more people trying to i=engage in it and become more interested. These activities are usually more hands on and requires people to be more creative rather than having homework in the classroom. Open educational resources are different teaching and learning materials. These materials can be digital or any other kind that people allows people to have limited restrictions. These resources provides text, media and other digital assets that are useful fo teaching and learning majority groups of different people. Certain examples of OER includes full university courses, digital textbooks and interactive mini-lessons. Khan academy provides online practice exercise and instructional vide...

Blog Journal #8

When working with Diigo, I learned many new skills that I obtained while working. Diigo is basically a social bookmarking website that allows users to bookmark webpage. It is also a powerful research tool that is used by a wide variety of people. In my opinion, this is a good way to develop better reading and research strategies. This application can be useful in my classroom with team members and for my individual professional efforts in many ways. As a whole, it is very useful by having it be a knowledge-sharing community. As an individual, this would be useful because it can keep me organized with all of my information and my students information. I would use powerpoint to support student learning at each level of Blooms Taxonomy for many reasons. It would be useful because the Blooms Taxonomy classifies educational learning objectives into specific levels. It has cognitive affective and sensory domains yet, the cognitive domain list has been more effective and used more for edu...