November 18, 2014 Blog 10

Hello everyone! This is our last and final blog post of the semester. I wasn't sure on what to expect when I first signed up for this class. I knew that it was required to get into the teaching program but I also love to learn the newest ways of technology in order to teach myself as well as my students one day. I was not expecting to learn as much as I did in this class. Starting from the first day of class up to now there has been a huge amount of information jammed in my brain. It has been a long and stressful semester but I would have to say that this class has been very interesting and I am so glad that I took this class regardless if it was required or not. My favorite parts of this class I would say was learning about gamification. Every week we would have different levels to complete and in those levels was where we learned about different techniques and ways to teach children. For example, Jing, learning about the Flipped Classroom, and the content curation. To start off Jing is a free screen casting program that allows you to take pictures and screenshots of the computer while recording your voice in order to make a lesson plan or in order for the students to learn while getting to see visuals as well as listening to what was recorded. For my Jing presentation I decided to do one through Pinterest I found interesting pins that I found was connected to the topic we had to write about and then I would take screen shots as well as scroll down on the page as I was recording myself. Also learning about the Flipped Classroom I found was very interesting and something that I would consider doing myself when having my own classroom because it gives the students a different way of learning rather than being lectured everyday about the same old boring stuff. Lastly, learning about the content curation I found was very interesting and will be useful in the future. This is because it pretty much gives you the chance to not be disorganized and have little sticky notes all over the place and be able to have all of your information in a certain place. For example you can have a certain study that you want the students to learn about and have a whole bunch of information there together for them to see. I am excited to see what the future will have for myself in the next couple of years and hope to teach my students and others all of the information that I have learned in class this semester!