Claudia's EME2040 Blog

For my second Individual Learning Project, I decided to play around with Prezi. I have only used it once before so I did not have much experience with it, but using it for this project has been interesting. I am used to using Google Slides and PowerPoint so using something a little different than those two software was weird. It was like a simplified version of the two with a lot more unique options to choose from for templates and ways to present content. I found that a lot of the templates matched well with many of the topics people present on, which made creating a presentation of Freud's Iceberg of Personalities more interesting. For this project, I wanted to create a presentation on something that interested me and was not related so much to education, like my last project. In using Prezi, I was able to create a presentation with a background that matched the topic that I had searched. I experimented with the types of slides for the content I put in and the colors used for t...

As a kindergarten or first grade teacher, I will need to use tools like Microsoft Excel to keep track of the students grades. Using an online spreadsheet would be more effective than a physical grade-book. With an online spreadsheet, corrections can be easily made and saved, information would not have to be completely erased to be fixed, and can be accessed anywhere. It can be used for more information than just grades. I would be able to use it keep track of student and parent contact information. This way I will be able to store important things without worrying about losing them easily. ClassDojo is another reporting tool that I found many teachers use in their classrooms. With ClassDojo, teachers can create their own classroom rules and give or take away points on a students behavior. Parents are able to see these changes on their phones using the ClassDojo app. This is a quick and easy way for parents to see how their child is doing in class and can see the feedback the teacher is...

In a flipped classroom, instead of the traditional scene where the student sits and listens to a lecture then goes home to do homework, the student watches a prerecorded video lecture for homework the day before. The concept of a flipped classroom began with lectures being recorded for absent students and expanded from there. Since the students have already listened to the lecture, when they get to the classroom, they are able to become active learners and do hands-on work. This will help them understand and learn in a way that is more modern and a lot less boring than just listening to a teacher speak for a really long time. I think that flipped classrooms are a really cool but I think there could be some downsides to them. Knowing students, they would be too lazy to listen to the lecture and would not know what to do the next day which would cause that individual to be behind. Other than that, I see no problem with having a flipped classroom.  "Open" terms mentioned ...