EME 2040 Blog

For my second independent learning project, I chose to do another Lynda tutorial on the educational technology software, Keynote.  Keynote is similar to powerpoint in that teachers can use it for presentations during lessons.  Keynote is specific to MacBook products, and since Macs are the most popular up and coming type of computer, using Keynote makes creating presentations easier to create on them since Macs do not automatically come with Microsoft PowerPoint installed. This tutorial talks about the use of Keynote in traditional versus modern day classrooms, and how it helps in a flipped classroom setting.  It also talks about how you can use Keynote to create engaging, simulating lessons as opposed to students falling asleep while trying to listen and keep up with a traditional lecture.  He also details how to use Keynote as a way to create an engaging flipped classroom, where teachers can create a presentation and then voice over the presentation as you can do...

I think that in my future career as a teacher, I will definitely use Excel.  For one thing, if I am teaching in a school that does not have automatic online attendance, I will be able to use an excel spreadsheet to do it.  I could also use data collection surveys as a way to see which topics my students would like to discuss or take surveys on ideas for a holiday party.  I could also use Excel to create a budget to present to the administration of the school for a field trip or event.  One topic that I found the most interesting out of the rest when reading the blogs of my classmates was the topic of Twitter.  It was very interesting to me to read about their opinions because many of them were different from my own.  I personally did not like using Twitter, but it was also new to me.  It was interesting to see that my classmates did like it and were comfortable using it because they used it regularly in their personal lives. A new technology relate...

A flipped classroom is a class that has students learn and apply knowledge in a different way than a traditional classroom.  A flipped classroom has most of the actual learning content online, where students can either watch videos or online lectures to learn and gain the information or knowledge at home.  When the students come to class the next day, they are able to participate in activities or hands-on things where they apply the skills or knowledge that they learned online the night before.  This not only allows students to learn something on their own time, but it is also considered by some to allow for time in the classroom to be spent more effectively. Open educational resources are resources that are readily and freely available to teachers or learners, and can be used for researching purposes as well.  Khan Academy is an example of an open educational resource.  You have to first make a free account, but after that you choose between being a teacher a...

The first tool that teachers could use is Instagram.  Through this PLN tool, teachers can post homework updates, announcements, and other information specific to their class.  Because it is a social media outlet, students are more likely to check their feed on Instagram more often than a teacher's blog or website.  This also allows students to post specific things to their Instagram accounts as assignments, and enables them to easily get in contact with their teacher and classmates.  Link to Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ Another PLN tool that teachers can use is Edmodo.  This tool can help teachers in many of the same ways as Instagram.  Teachers can upload homework assignments and easily communicate with their class.  Similarly, students, and even their parents, can interact through Edmodo, making communication all around easy and at their fingertips.  Edmodo also allows teachers to create a page for each individual class that th...