ILP #2
For this design ILP I wanted to do an infographic, and due to what we were discussing in class I decided to make a concept map style timeline of the stages of the first French Revolution for a possible history class.
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Additional ILP in place of COE Research Pool
I used Adobe Photoshop to create this poster advertising Plutarch's Life of Alexander the Great, something that I'm doing research on in another class. This could be used in a classroom setting as something to decorate a room with and pique student interest in the subject.
Blog Post #10
I think what excel can most be used for in the way of data collection will be reporting grades. It can also be used to have an online sign up sheet or general data collection for students, but I think grades are what it is mostly used for. Im not particularly planning on becoming a teacher, but if I did teach history it could be a good way to record dates or statistics for certain time periods. I think the topic that I found most interesting when viewing my classmates blogs are the developments in educational technologies like what we saw in the tech sandbox, and how everyone thinks they can put those technologies to use in their classrooms. I also have like reading how everyone thinks social media can be used in an educational setting, because its not something you talk about very much and its such a big part of all of our lives. I would maybe like to learn some low level coding or software programing, because I think its a very useful and highly marketable skill in pretty
Blog Post #9
“The Flipped Classroom” has been described as “online instruction at home that frees class time for learning”. I think that this style of learning has some great advantages: people who aren’t able to attend class due to a bunch of different reasons; disability, transportation issues, or other responsibilities can still get a great education. It could lead to some issues such as an influx of internet based cheating, but I think the advantages far outweigh the disadvantages. Here is a link with more information. The three main open terms used in this podcast are “open education”, “open source” and “open content”. The general advantage to these things are the reduced costs of education, something that is very important due to the insanely increased costs of textbooks and other resources for the classroom, such as E-clickers. It is emphasized to make sure that when you use open content and sources you remember the five “R’s”- reuse, revise, remix, redistribute, retain. This article