Callie in Tally

DATA COLLECTION In my future high school English classroom, I could see myself using data collection to get feedback about certain subjects, topics, and lessons learned in class. How much did my students like the Shakespeare group project in our most recent unit? What are their thoughts about the most recent essay? I think student feedback is very important. As for data reporting, I think that having that data in an accessible space is important, and it also makes averaging and seeing trends easier. BLOGS This semester, I enjoyed seeing what other students’ wanted for their future classrooms, especially on how they’d integrate the technology we learned about in class (if at all!). I think it’s valuable to have others to share ideas with, and this was very helpful for me. I was able to develop new ideas for my class because of it. I also liked seeing all of the websites that people made and how they interpreted the assignments given. UP NEXT I would really like to learn how...

Hey y’all! I’m back with another ILP! For this project, I chose to do a Lynda.com tutorial, and I actually chose one about creating interactive PowerPoints to supplement my learning a little bit. If you’d like to see the Lynda tutorial I watched, I’ve linked it here ! As someone who doesn’t necessarily enjoy learning from videos, I was pleasantly surprised by Lynda.com! It was pretty engaging, and I thought the step-by-step walkthrough was helpful. If you want to here more of my opinions and experience, check out my VoiceThread . That’s all for this week! I’ll see you guys soon. This work is licensed under a  Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License .

Flipped Classrooms I am not the biggest fan of the flipped classroom concept, and while I feel many others share my opinion, I really admire teachers who make it work in their classrooms! Check out my Flipgrid video to see why I don’t like flipped classrooms. Open Educational Resources (OERs) Open Educational Resources are really cool, and as a hopeful teacher and current student, I appreciate them greatly! OERs are learning, teaching, and research materials that have been made available for educators and students to use freely! They are free, adaptable, and able to be distributed without limit. That’s right— one day, college students could have OER textbooks!  One website I found that discusses Open Educational Resources is this one , a page by the United Nations. It gives a lot of important information about how to develop an OER, why they’re important, and discuss important declarations about OERs! I would strongly encourage you to check it out! PowerPoin...