EME2040 Blog

Excel has been a very interesting tool to use this semester. I originally had my doubts about its usefulness, but now I feel much more comfortable. As an elementary school teacher, I will use it for attendance, grades, and for other documentation, like survey results. For me, the most interesting thing that I found from my classmates' blogs is website evaluation. I saw so many reliable websites that will be easy to use in my classroom. In addition, I had a chance to look at some of my peers' ILP assignments, and it was very cool to see how creative everyone got. Although we generally covered exceptional student education (ESE) or English as a second language (ESL) technology, I would like to look more into specific devices and programs. In a world with a growing diverse population, I feel like I should be more educated when it comes to these technologies. I would like to be helpful to my students in whatever way I can. Before I begin teaching, I will be sure to attend va

Essentially, The Flipped Classroom is where students do the lecture at home by watching videos, reading a textbook, etc., and the activities in class, which is the opposite of a traditional classroom. It allows students to have access to the course material outside of school and to come to class prepared with questions. Here is a great video on the Flipped Classroom:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCIxikOq73Q , where the narrator describes why and how to flip a classroom, what it looks like, and some extra tips. The podcast discussed "all things open," which included open education, open content, and open source. When I searched these terms online, I found that open education is defined as free and easily accessible education, with free textbooks and other quality materials ( https://sparcopen.org/open-education/ ). This website also gave thorough reasons as to why we should have open education. Open content goes hand in hand with open education. Open content is free edu