Experiences in EME 2040
I very much enjoyed my experience in this class with my classmates and professor, as it is quite different from my other classes that I've had thus far at Florida State University. I like that there as a lot of freedom to create what we wanted how we desired for our future classrooms and to learn in our desired subjects and age range where possible. We regularly collaborated with classmates and I enjoyed getting to know how others thought about my ideas and learning new things and perspectives that I would have never thought of. I did dislike that we used relatively complicated tools at times and that we sometimes were unable to the most creative due to guidelines on some assignments, cost of certain programs being an obstacle as well. for example, weekly not allowing full freedom on their free plan. To improve the classroom experience, I would choose to research new and free ways in which to introduce emerging technology and to allow for more fun tools in the learning environment to reach those who learn differently than the mainstream.
Open Educational Resources
Resources that are Open to all and in the realm of education are very important for the classroom as they help those who cannot afford certain resources and they are easier to communicate to parents and students who also may be unable to access resources due to cost. The link below is a website that describes what exactly open educational resources are and gives a brief overview of the importance of these resources in the classroom. the website is very clear in providing this information and makes it easy to use in order to explain these resources to those who may benefit from them. introducing these resources may be difficult as educational resources that aren't "open" are often preferred and given much more care and attention, but utilizing these resources needs to be the focus until such time that more resources become available without such restriction.
https://www.edutopia.org/open-educational-resources-guide
New Skills
Some things that I learned from working on Assignment 4, PowerPoint for Information Dissemination, were how to further utilize this Microsoft product that I've used previously quite often. I thought that I knew quite a lot about the program but I didn't even know how to properly link an image or icon, or how to record a video with a powerpoint without a separate app, or about the designer tool which helped tremendously. I did not like the recording portion of the assignment due to my personal discomfort in recording myself in general but it was quite easy and as long as I didn't fully listen to it and cringe, I was fine to submit as is. I loved creating the powerpoint and I chose a topic that is one of my favorites, though the time limit or suggestion didn't allow me to fully go into detail on the lesson so I used it as an overview and introduction for upcoming instruction and projects. To improve next time, I think that being better organized with a guideline for the powerpoint would be helpful for the student to utilize a lesson plan to get the point across in a timely manner and in an organized way - like suggesting objectives, key points to mention, and a conclusion and accompanying assignment of sorts or review.
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