Kasey- EME2040 Blog

 My new Personal Learning Network incorporates more specific technologies than the old one I made at the beginning of the semester. My previous one included "The Internet" without much elaboration. Now my "The Internet" section includes things like Blogger and Reddit. My therapist and past teachers are included in both PLNs because they will forever be helpful resources to me. I will use data collection to ask students (high school level) how they felt about previous assignments. I'll ask them if there is anything they would have liked to have done differently as well. This way I can use it for future classes as well to better my learning environment. My goal is to have my students learn in the best way possible and data collection would be a huge help. I'd like to further my skills using other web-design tools. I did not enjoy using Weebly and would like to experience other tools to make a class website. To accomplish this goal I will watch tutorial videos ...

 In K-12, I didn't experience a whole lot of distance learning. I had used Canvas since early high school, however I never really dealt with distance learning. COVID hit during the last quarter of my senior year, so teachers still weren't sure how things worked yet. There were no Zoom meetings, and all assignments were on Canvas. Granted, some assignments were altered (my guitar teacher obviously couldn't listen to us play, so he assigned us music theory worksheets) but for the most part things weren't that different yet. Open Educational Resources (OERs) are public domain materials that teachers can access and use for their classrooms without needing permission from the original creator. According to University of Maryland Global Campus , usage of OERs come with both pros and cons. The pros include things such as the resources allowing modification to your own personal standards, they can increase student interaction, and they can enhance an otherwise great course. How...

  I learned a lot of new skills with the previous assignment. For example I wanted to have a consistent blue font color to match the aquatic theme I was going for but since the pictures I chose for the banners were also blue, I had to learn how to use the photo editor within Weebly to darken the photos so the text would be legible. I wasn't a big fan of how restricting Weebly felt. Sometimes I had an idea of something that I wanted to do but the website's features were fairly limited and made some of my design choices impossible. I definitely want to make a class website in the future to have a central hub for all of my students to view assignments and announcements. In a classroom, I might use QR codes to make a fun and engaging activity for my students. I'd hide various QR codes around an outdoor area for a treasure hunt and they'd contain links to different quiz questions. Whoever finds all of the QR codes and correctly answers the questions first would get a prize. ...