Hilary's Educational Technology Blog

Independent Learning Project #2 Design: Google Classroom April 9, 2019 For our ILP #2, I chose to design a Google Classroom. By putting back on my teacher hat, I created an online classroom for my 3rd grade English class that I've been "teaching" for this semester. Google classroom is similar to online classroom resources like Canvas and Blackboard, except that it can be created by anyone and for anyone. Check out my voice thread on how I created it and why it's so great: https://voicethread.com/share/12381940/ Link to my Google Classroom (code: u2ttjr) https://classroom.google.com/c/MzYwMzk3NTk3NDda

Blog Journal 9 4 April 2019 A flipped classroom is a teacher-created approach to leanring in a different enviroment than the traditional classroom that we all know. In this approach, students learn the material and are taught the lesson at home, through video and online homework lessons. Then, the in-class time is used to practice and do acitivies that would normally be sent home as homework. This can be a great change for those students who aren't able to really grasp new concepts in a classroom setting, and then have toruble practicing and doing homework at home without the teachers help. A big problem teachers see with this idea is that some students fail to do the at-home lesson, and come to class confused as to what the practice is on. Either way, I feel as if either of these approaches have their own issues. Open Educational Resources, or OER, are recourses that are available and accessable to anyone to use in a variety of ways. Most of them are posted online, so they c...

We're surveying the eating habits of students here at FSU. Click the following link to take my 5 question survey about student eating, and even vote for the next restaurant set to open on campus: https://fsu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0HyZ5AxdEm10lDL

Blog Journal 8 26 March 2019 Diigo is a service that you can add to your web browser to help you with your research or whatever you are doing online. Working with it in class, I learned I can use it for quick note taking, adding bookmarks to websites I want to visit later, and to annotate those bookmarks with little notes. I can use this in all of my future classes in college and for any research, I will be doing in my future career. It's helpful because it eliminates taking notes and keeping separate documents full of links to websites because you can simply just bookmark the websites and organize them by category. Using PowerPoint for Bloom's Taxonomy Create: Powerpoint could be used within itself by helping students create an original work using it.  A class could be taught on how to use powerpoint in future assignments, and students could be tested by having to create and design their very own powerpoint on their topic of choice. Evaluate: Powerpoint could ...

Blog Journal 7 7 March 2019 I've been a tweeter since I was a wee high-schooler, but since it's surfaced, Twitter has changed drastically. It's transformed into a professional, business communication tool from a silly, friendly social media. By using it in school, I've learned that it's a great way to combine the classroom with a comfortable online forum. We are able to keep it light and joke around while still connecting with our classmates and talking about topics related to whatever we're doing in class. Twitter is pretty easy to use with a very simple interface, so I haven't experienced any issues since it's not too difficult to navigate. This past week, we had to "put on our teacher hats" and create a website for whatever class we decided to teach. I used Wix to create mine, and I found this assignment super fun because I love incorporating creativity into school work and being able to put our own design and flare into projects. I ha...

Independent Learning Project 1: Participation How To Create Great First Impressions Watch my voice thread about what I learned on Lynda.com: https://voicethread.com/share/12205930/ https://voicethread.com/share/12205930/ Vanessa Van Edwards, a  Lead Investigator at Science of People, a human behavior research lab, gives  us some real tips and tricks on how to really sound and took confident, perfect a handshake, the best opening one-liners, and how to keep people engaged for the remainder of our time with them. Before this tutorial, I knew that first impressions were extremely important, but I had no idea how easy it was judge someone just based on small things like the tone of their voice, and not even what they’re saying.  I realized how much easier it is to really engage with someone and leave a lasting impression when you just work on perfecting those first 20 seconds.