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Question #3: Select the five distance-learning technologies that you would prefer to use if you were teaching a distance-education or blended course. Reflect on your teaching style and your students’ learning styles and how each of the selected technologies would be received, depending on the students’ learning styles. (Two students can answer this question) My Top Five As an educator there are a few criterion that are musts for a technology that I use in-class or for distance learning. The first is that the tech needs to be free. The second is that it needs to be easy. The final thing is that the technology needs to be easily applied to both in-class instruction and distance learning. The following list was created with these three criterion in mind.
I feel that these technologies integrate well within my teaching style. I have always used a lot of technology in my classroom. I currently use Google Classroom as my LMS. This allows students to know when assignments are due, as well as have access to all my course materials 24 hours a day. Note might get lost, but there is another set waiting to be printed on Classroom. I also have used Khan Academy a great deal for their articles as a supplement to the textbook and class lectures. Khan Academy fully integrates with Google Classroom and makes for easy assignment transfer between the platforms. I imagine that I will use Loom a lot more this year than I have in the past. I usually use Loom to teach make-up lessons that students request. I teach the lecture portion of the class using the picture-in-picture function on Loom, and then post the URL link for the student(s) in Google Classroom. New additions to my teaching tech repertoire for this year will be Poll Everywhere and Edpuzzle. During the coursework for ITD 645 I discovered Poll Everywhere and was able to use it to create a Slides presentation with integrated formative assessments. I plan on using this feature nearly every day this upcoming year. Currently I will be teaching some students on campus and some online simultaneously. Poll Everywhere will allow me to pull online students into the classroom experience by allowing them to interact in the class in real time. Additionally, Edpuzzle will allow me to create supplemental videos that contain that similar formative assessment piece. I feel the two technologies will improve both the in-class experience, as well as the distance learning experience. Group Reflection for Week 6 This week flowed really smoothly like last week. Early in the week, Melissa scheduled a Microsoft Teams meeting where we discussed the group projects for the week, as well as the weekly blog questions. We discussed our group member's strengths and weaknesses pertaining to the week's agenda, and then we split up the assignments based on our strengths. This week I worked on creating an Edpuzzle video for the group and also contributed to the resources page on our group's website. The week was very productive, stress free, and I learned a great new technology that I want to use in my class this next year. Week 6 Projects Project 6 Movie Story - Life in the New England Colonies Project 7 Edpuzzle Video - Life in Colonial America - Access Code: girehke Project 8 Course Site - The 13 Colonies Project 9 Padlet - 13 Colonies
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7/12/2020 06:51:05 pm
I really appreciate your comment about the tech being free. In our society today, I find that teachers that are placed on pedestals are those who spend money on fancy tech and classroom decorations. As a new teacher who is on a very tight budget, this always makes me feel as though I am inferior. However, I think it is very possible to find simple, effective tools to use online, especially when it comes to distance learning.
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7/12/2020 07:00:54 pm
Hello, Derrick
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