[EME2040-Fall 2019] Casey Higgins

   Data collection and surveys will be a great addition to my classroom. I aspire to be a special education teacher in the future and, while I am not sure which grade I will be teaching yet, I will be able to utilize this technology with students of all ages. A large portion of teaching students with special needs involves teaching them life skills so I could theoretically use this technology to teach my more advanced students how to take surveys. The survey aspect may not be as useful for teaching my younger students, but that is where data collection plays a roll. I will collect data on my students with Excel and organize it into tables to track the progress of my students of all ages.    In reviewing some of the blog posts of my fellow classmates, I have learned a great deal of information. Of the blogs that I reviewed, Alyssa DePury's post on Piktochart really drew my attention. In this post she speaks of a program that she used in the process of creating her fi...

    I think that Flipped Classrooms are great and are very beneficial to students that are enrolled in them. They provide students with more opportunities to learn both in and out of the classroom. Additionally, they are a great way to continue to hold discussions and share ideas when situations prevent actual class from being held. An example of this is when our teacher was at a conference for a week and, instead of cancelling class, we participated in a number of online activities that still taught us. I will be likely to recommend flipped classrooms to friends.    OER resources? More like OER you ready to learn?!?! hahaha. Get it? Because it sounds like "are"... and you're learning... funny stuff! Anyways, Open Education Resources are really useful. They provide educators with a plethora of free resources to be used in the educational instruction of their students. As many people know, teaching is not an extremely lucrative career in a financial sense so having t...