The Story

Out of the skills we have learned this semester, I am most excited to use my Excel and survey skills as a teacher. With the data collection tools that we learned in class, I already knew a little bit about surveys and Qualtrics because I had made some in the past. What was the most interesting, however, was the way that it interacted with Excel. I had no idea that a CSV file was translated into a spreadsheet, and I was even more surprised and grateful to learn about the different formula functions that I could do with the data. Specifically, I think that being able to find averages and percents will be the most helpful for me as a teacher, and I will not have to input it by hand. For example, I plan to teach the second grade, so I could create surveys for parents to fill out about the level of difficulty of the homework, how they feel the year is going, etc., and then move the data to excel t...

For my design ILP, I chose to create a class in Class Dojo. I wanted to work on this website because in a classroom that I observe, the teacher uses Dojo every day. It looked like a vital tool, so I wanted to get acquainted with the website and all the features it encompasses. For the purpose of this project, I dabbled with the point system, the group system, and the class "tweets," which I think will really help increase and streamline parent-teacher communication. Overall, this ILP let me get familiar with the tools of Class Dojo, and I am positive that I will use it in my career as a teacher. My VoiceThread Link can be found here . My Class Dojo can be found here ; however, you can only see the class when I am logged in (if you would like to see it, comment your email, and I can add you as a co-teacher!). Here is a screenshot instead! Disclaimer: I am sick, so my voice is really scratchy!

I created a five question survey about the days of the week. It can be found here . This survey is a mix of multiple choice questions and fill in the blank. Thank you for taking the time to fill it out!

The flipped classroom is exactly what it sounds like: a classroom that is completely backwards. In a flipped classroom, the learning is at home. Students get instructional resources where they learn new information. For example, the resources might be an interactive lesson plan, a video from the teacher, or a written lecture. The students do the learning at home, and then they come to school for reinforcement with worksheets, games, and other methods that help to reinforce information and smooth out any misconceptions of the information. Therefore, where a traditional classroom has students learning in school and practicing their skills at home, the students now are flipping that method with learning at home and practicing at school.  Open educational resources are resources that teachers can use, usually found on the internet. With OERs, teachers can take information from other lesson pl...