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. Through personal experience with high school classrooms, I really only see myself using data collection to conduct surveys like an end-of-the-year survey to see if students enjoyed being in my class and liked or disliked the assignments I provided, or a survey to see which book(s) my students would prefer to read since I would like to teach English and will probably have many books that my students will read throughout the year. I could see many more applications for data collection and/or reporting schools for younger age levels. . Since most of mine and my classmates' blogs are on similar topics, I found it interesting to see their different opinions on the same topics. It was also interesting to see fellow classmates who desired to be teachers talk about the technologies we have learned about and how their applications differed from mine. Although I desire to teach high school, I have been exposed to the inner workings of elementary school classrooms which is an area a lot o

. The flipped classroom is an educational design in where instead of coming to class, listening to a lecture, and then doing homework on the lecture, the lectures are provided beforehand and students are able to come to class as "active learners engaged in exploration and discovery within the content's framework." The students are able to participate in group or individual activities to clarify information about the lecture instead of asking questions as the lecture is going on in class which can disrupt other students' learning. Teachers are using a variety of methods to make their lectures available such as sharing them on a closed network or website, writing them as blogs, and/or posting videos to YouTube. . Open education is about making educational experiences to a wide audience. Essentially it is education that is not confined by any specific are like geography, academic level, etc.  The Great Courses Plus (https://www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/special-offer?&am

. The definition of adaptive technologies is in the name, it is technology that changes over time. Since learning and the way certain students learn changes over time, adaptive technologies come into play to meet the changing demands of student learning. For example, while blogging has been around for a while, teachers 20 years ago wouldn't have been able to use Twitter the same way it is used in education today. I use Twitter on a daily basis for both personal and educational use and I know teachers that have used the platform as inspiration for class assignments and as a part of assignments themselves. A challenge I see with using adaptive technologies is that they sometimes can fall behind due to the rapid changes in student learning. . I would use PowerPoint to support the cognitive and affective domains by making a presentation that relates the concepts I am teaching at that particular time with concepts that my students are familiar with. This association would promote reme

. I have not learned much from using Twitter for this class because I have been active on Twitter for years prior. Twitter is a great social platform to express ideas and interact with others. I personally have met and talked with a variety of people using the app. The only issue I have been having with keeping up with the class Twitter is coming up with ideas for the tweets itself. Sometimes it's hard and often the tweets come out sounding awkward at first. . I learned a lot from the web page design and I had no idea how easy it was to make a published web page. Since I aspire to be a teacher, I felt it was a fitting assignment and enjoyed writing the content for it, even though most of it was fictional. I also liked how we were not limited to what website creating platform we could use so I was able to use one I was already comfortable with. I don't really see any ways the assignment can be approved, I think it is fine the way it is. https://elisespiller20.wixsite.com/e

. This is the page for the Creative Writing class at my previous high school, Lakewood Ranch High School. I took Creative Writing my senior year and was around for when the page was created. It features posts about events involving Ms. Hargen, the teacher, and her class like the annual poetry slam, and how to submit to the school's literary magazine (I had the privilege of being published in it the first time it was made available online). It also features resources from Ms. Hargen's class for students who have missed or want to refamiliarize themselves with the material discussed in class. https://lrhscreativewriting.wordpress.com . I envision myself using technology a lot in my classroom but mainly for grading. As a high school English teacher I will probably have 100-200 students a day and that involves grading their papers. The rubric technology mentioned in the podcast would seem extremely helpful for me when grading papers and for students to see the feedback I have

Here is a Prezi I made that talks about some of the tips and tricks I have learned over the past couple years about switching from Macs to PC's https://prezi.com/view/Fs0elcevIRwhVrMN4MKg/