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Final Reflection

A) I learned a lot from this course. I learned not to be afraid of using multimedia in my classroom to enhance my teaching. I feel like I met the ISTE goal of being a knowledge constructor because I used many tech resources to produce creative artifacts. I also became a global collaborator by joining the Twitter scene and being an active participant. B) One of the most useful tools I found was Screencastify. I believe this because it is an easy google extension to use. It also is a great user friendly way to record tutorials of how to navigate through a website or digital app. I plan on in the future using this tool to create tutorials of google classroom, our online textbook, and many other apps our district uses for both the parents and students to use to know how to better use the technology the district is giving them to guide their education. This would also help parents know how to navigate through their student's work when they need help at home since they are not using th...
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Curriculum Video

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Blog Post Review

 I spent some time on "Free Technology for Teachers" blog, https://www.freetech4teachers.com/, and ran into some really cool ideas for teachers. First off I like how when you log onto the blog it is outlined with the most recent post at the top and then the top posts of the week after that. One of the resources that I thought was neat was on how to utilize cardboard boxes within the classroom (https://www.freetech4teachers.com/2021/03/a-fun-and-educational-use-of-cardboard.html). I teach science so this is something that I could see my students getting into. Richard Byrne also blogs about resources teachers can use to enhance their technology within the classroom with easy to follow videos. One of the videos I enjoyed was about how to add free hand drawing to google slides (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4R3kPpTgys). This would help in adding free hand diagrams and info easily into the science presentations we prepare for students.  I believe that I could create a blog ...
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Screencastify

Screencastify is something I could easily incorporate into my daily lessons. Currently I could use it to post examples of our chemistry equations that students are struggling with. The short tutorials would allow them to go back and view an example as they practice on their own outside of class. These short clips would be easy to upload to their google classroom pages as references to use!  Find it on Youtube: https://youtu.be/49-6hGgIHqk
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Animoto Curriculum Video

The video I have created using Animoto I plan to use to introduce my students to the rules of lab and lab safety. Throughout the year as we do labs I will also reshow this video to give my students a refresher about expectations. I like how easy it was to create and the fact that I can upload the media into google classroom so that my students have it as another resource in their collection. Animoto is a tool that could easily be used by both the teacher and students in a classroom. Students could create their own videos about what they know about a topic at the start of a unit. They could also create videos as summative assessments to show what they have learned over the course of a unit. This would also be a good tool for students to use at the beginning of the year to create 'get to know me' presentations. Teachers can use Animoto for a ton of different things as well. They can use it to create content videos for a flipped classroom. It could also be used to make reviews of ...
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Web-Based Tool Reflection

The web-based tool I chose to investigate was Canva. I really like all of the options of resources that are available through this site. They have so many resource templates for an individual to work with across the topics of social media, events, marketing, documents, order prints, education, personal, and video. The section I focused my time on was the resources found in education. Canva offers templates for lesson plans, schedules, infographics, posters, brochures, and more in this section. You pick what you want to design and are set to go. The site is easy to use with so many free tools and more tools available if you chose to get a subscription.  This resource can be used in the classroom in multiple ways. Teachers can print off stylized class schedules to hang up in their room. They can also create their own posters for topic within a unit. The lesson planning templates are cute and would be easy to use and leave for a substitute teacher. Students could even use this tool to...
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Blended Learning Article Reflection

I agree with the findings of this article. Blended learning can do so much to enhance a classroom for students. It is a way that students can be challenged to reach standards but in their own personally guided way. This type of differentiation is what teachers strive to do for all students but when it is just them face to face with students it is a lot harder to reach all of the different needs of all of the students at one time. When students work on an online curriculum they are offered this differentiation in their own personal areas. They get to learn the material at their own pace but at the end of the day every student has been able to reach the same outcome of the lesson. When blended learning has been used in a study of a 6th grade math class this type of learning has proven to show overall growth of content for all students within the subject. It even allowed students who were behind to get caught up to grade level concepts. This type of learning could impact all subject class...
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