ILP "Design"

For my second ILP I decided to do the design choice and for that I would like to talk about my Pearl Harbor Prezi that I made to teach kids about the attack, why it happened, and the consequences of it afterwards. I wanted to do Prezi because PowerPoint is a really one dimensional tool that can only go one way while Prezi has the ability to zoom in and do much more and be more creative with how you can teach the information. I decided to keep zooming in on my Prezi because what I did was go more into the event and zooming in just kinda felt right for the fact that I just kept going more and more into the topic. If you want to look at my Prezi here is the link it is open to the public, so please leave a comment on what you thought of my first attempt at a Prezi.
http://prezi.com/6stnnh1xfhpe/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy

Blog Post #10

    If I were to become a history teacher data collection and surveying tools would be an important aspect to my teaching and how I would prepare. First of all I would use data collection to keep track of grades, this way the grading will take less time and be more accurate. I would use the surveying tools to create daily questions that could be used to judge how the kids learned and I could also use the tools to ask students what they feel needs to be reviewed before test out of certain units or if they feel like they need to review from the day before. This would be helpful for high school because at that age they would have easy access to internet and computers and so the ease of doing this would make it more effective, if necessary I could make it worth homework but that wouldn't be necessary.

    While reviewing my classmates blogs the topics I found the most interesting were the ones that included the personal life touch because in these posts and options always differed from mine. These included the flipped classroom discussion. I bring this up because I am personally a fan of this method because my school used it and I liked it a lot but then reading through Bella's blog and her option of it not being a good idea because of her experience of kids not doing their homework did help me see the other side to this argument. I also liked the discussion we all had after out trip to the sand box and how different the experience was depending on what you did while there and how everybody seemed to like another piece of tech I didn't see.

    For my next tech skill I would like to learn more about Excel actually. Right now I don't like the program because I don't know all of it's secrets and tricks which would make it more user friendly and Chip friendly. So I think if I learned more about it I would actually like to use Excel and use it more often.

Blog Post #9

    The flipped classroom concept is one that attempts to switch the usual roles of teacher and students inside and outside the classroom. With this concept the teacher will not lecture inside of class but instead pre-records lectures and assigns them for homework. This way once the students come into class they already know the material and they can practice with different problems inside the class instead of for homework. This type of classroom model has been gaining traction inside the K-12 schooling world after it was developed by two Woodland High School teacher and is becoming huge around the country with many of my younger brothers classes doing this now in Middle School. A good example of this type of learning would be the crash course series put together by John and Hank Green with my teachers actually showing us these videos and assigning homework with them included.
https://www.youtube.com/user/crashcourse
 
    The term open is in itself very open and broad so when I searched the term open I got a lot of results but eventually I narrowed that down to open software and Open-office. Open-office is a free, Microsoft office compatible tool that, like all other open content has its code open for change by the person using it. This means that for the more tech savoy they can change that they can change things in the code they may not like or even fix bugs that developers may not have caught. This not only breeds competition between the different software to see who truly has the best one but between the people to see who can create the best individual software.
https://www.openoffice.org/

    The two PowerPoint assignment were actually pretty fun for me to create. I had a blast because I already knew how to use the software and the material so I just had to put it together to make something awesome. In the end I actually did have to learn how to lay out a Jeopardy game and how to turn shapes into buttons that all lead someplace else. I do think I can improve my Jeopardy game next time, I think next time I'll add a wrong answer slide for every wrong answer so that every hyperlink doesn't go bad after one wrong answer but that would also just keep adding slides I really don't want to put into my already huge PowerPoint.