- A paragraph about how you think you will use data collection (surveys) and/or reporting (Excel) tools as a teacher. Be specific about your subject matter area and the grade level.
- A paragraph on topics you found most interesting from reviewing your classmates’ blogs.
- A paragraph on what technology-related skill you would like to learn next, why, and how you will achieve this goal.
Thursday, April 25, 2019
Blog #10
Thursday, April 11, 2019
ILP "Participation" - Lynda Tutorials
Hello Earthlings! Only a couple more weeks of school left, so buckle down and hang in there, I believe in you!
This project was my first time using Lynda, a website that hosts thousands of courses on a wide variety of topics. I'm really surprised I haven't taken advantage of this resource sooner, there are some seriously cool topics covered. I decided to watch a video on the basics of video production to get my feet wet in the art. I'm wanting to make music videos of some of my recorded song arrangements so I can share them on YouTube and get my work published! Take a look at my experience by clicking HERE to look at my VoiceThread.
This project was my first time using Lynda, a website that hosts thousands of courses on a wide variety of topics. I'm really surprised I haven't taken advantage of this resource sooner, there are some seriously cool topics covered. I decided to watch a video on the basics of video production to get my feet wet in the art. I'm wanting to make music videos of some of my recorded song arrangements so I can share them on YouTube and get my work published! Take a look at my experience by clicking HERE to look at my VoiceThread.
Thursday, April 4, 2019
Blog #9
Happy Thursday! I just got back from seeing my friend Josephina Guzman give a riveting perform the Sibelius Violin Concerto with the University Philharmonia. If you haven't heard it, I suggest you listen to the first movement to get started, it's truly a moving work of music.
Moving on, we will start by talking about open educational resources, or OER for short. Put simply, they are teaching, learning, and research materials in any medium that are published in the public domain. That's right, that means no copyrights, so you can keep them, reuse them, and remix them with no restrictions. That is wonderful news for us teachers! As the popularity of OER increase, we will have access to so many resources without restriction, allowing our lessons to become more complex and refined. I found this article about OER that talks about the potential to lower the cost and possibly even replace textbooks one day. Resources can range from textbooks to entire courses online that students could access for free. It's worth looking into if you're about that! It's linked HERE.
I have become even more efficient with Powerpoint after pumping out these assignments back-to-back. I have gotten the hang of some of the more advanced features of Powerpoint. I created a fairly basic presentation for a mock-AP Music Theory classroom on chromatic chords and that one was pretty tame. I am, however, a big fan of the non-linear powerpoint, because the possibilities are vast. I looked online and saw people who made entirely programmed mini games with Powerpoint alone! I would have liked to do an adventure RPG where the player chooses a path that offers multiple endings, but I didn't have the time so I created a Jeopardy game. I am happy I finally got to learn how teachers do those things! There's so much that can go into the design, it's truly fascinating. Because my topic was The Office, I designed mine around the aesthetics of the show's logo. Check out some screenshots of my works below. If you'd like to play The Office Trivia Game, leave a comment and I'll post it!
Moving on, we will start by talking about open educational resources, or OER for short. Put simply, they are teaching, learning, and research materials in any medium that are published in the public domain. That's right, that means no copyrights, so you can keep them, reuse them, and remix them with no restrictions. That is wonderful news for us teachers! As the popularity of OER increase, we will have access to so many resources without restriction, allowing our lessons to become more complex and refined. I found this article about OER that talks about the potential to lower the cost and possibly even replace textbooks one day. Resources can range from textbooks to entire courses online that students could access for free. It's worth looking into if you're about that! It's linked HERE.
I have become even more efficient with Powerpoint after pumping out these assignments back-to-back. I have gotten the hang of some of the more advanced features of Powerpoint. I created a fairly basic presentation for a mock-AP Music Theory classroom on chromatic chords and that one was pretty tame. I am, however, a big fan of the non-linear powerpoint, because the possibilities are vast. I looked online and saw people who made entirely programmed mini games with Powerpoint alone! I would have liked to do an adventure RPG where the player chooses a path that offers multiple endings, but I didn't have the time so I created a Jeopardy game. I am happy I finally got to learn how teachers do those things! There's so much that can go into the design, it's truly fascinating. Because my topic was The Office, I designed mine around the aesthetics of the show's logo. Check out some screenshots of my works below. If you'd like to play The Office Trivia Game, leave a comment and I'll post it!
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