Blog Journal - November 12th Edition
☺WELCOME TO MY BLOG JOURNAL #9 ☺
- A paragraph about your experience as a distance learner. Have you experienced distance learning (including Emergency Remote Learning during Covid-19)? What do you like about your distance learning experience? What do you dislike about your distance learning experience? When you are a teacher, what is something you can do to help improve the experience of distance learners?
Prior to this class, I was a distance learner when the pandemic started and we went to distance learning. When I was a distance learner, I liked that things were more lax in terms of how assignments were set up and how they accommodated exams that were traditionally only in-person to be online friendly. However, I disliked that we weren't really able to interact with my peers the same way I used to. I also realized that I didn't grasp key concepts as well as I did when I was actually in class, I wasn't very motivated like I was during brick-and-mortar classes, and overall I was a different student virtually than I was in person. As the teacher in this situation, I would for one want my students to be able to interact outside of just the chat, and I would want them to have fun with interacting. Additionally, I think instead of doing random breakout rooms for group work, I would either do something like open discussions in the main chatroom(?) or students can pick which breakroom they go into based off of something like which students understand the lesson the best go together, or those who are confused can bounce ideas off of eachother to figure out what's happening, etc.
- A paragraph about open educational resources (OER). Describe these resources in your own words. Find an online resource (blog post about OER, examples of OER materials, an article about OER, etc.), provide a brief synopsis, and post the link to your blog.
From my understanding, open educational resources (OER) are educational materials that are usually protected under Creative Commons, so you can pretty much make the resource your own so long as you acknowledge the person who created the original idea/item that you either flipped into your own content or used as a building block for your instruction. My online source on OER comes from Harvard, and it essentially gives the same description as the one on Canvas about OERs but it's a bit more vague, however, it gives some decent tips for finding OERs and how to use them, as well as gives the contact of the OER librarian at Harvard for those who might need her assistance.
- A paragraph on new skills you acquired from working on the two PowerPoint assignments. Reflect on what you like/don’t like about each and how you can improve it next time. Post a screenshot of both assignments.
- Note: If you have not yet started working on the second PowerPoint assignment, you can reflect only on the first PowerPoint assignment (Assignment 4: PowerPoint for Information Dissemination).
At the time of this blog's writing, I haven't done Assignment 4 yet but I did Assignment 5, so that's the assignment I'm going to reflect on for the time being. I don't necessarily have anything I dislike about Assignment 5 aside from the fact that doing it through PowerPoint made it feel a bit more strenuous and confusing than it actually was. Disregarding that, I loved being able to make my Jeopardy game, and even with that while I did wish there was more transition options and sound effect options I still enjoyed making it and I can see myself doing Jeopardy games with my own students. The only improvements I could say were needed was maybe the topics, since I wanted the game to connect to my major I didn't really have as much flexibility like if I did something more fun and lighthearted like the solar system or something of that nature. Either way, this is the screenshots from my game!
My Vis. Dis. Jeopardy Game:
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