ILP "Design" - Digital Audio Tools (Garage Band)

          I choose to use the digital audio tool garage band and make and audio podcast for a classroom. I found making the podcast was really fun and simple to do and I had a lot of fun making it. Since I love to talk this was one of the most perfect things I could imagine and don’t know why I don’t already have my own podcast where I could just rant my life away. This has also been so great because I finally know how to use Garage Band and may experiment with it more sometime soon. 
         History is one of my favorite things so I thought it might be fun to do a "Fun Facts Friday with Ms. Pate" for a late elementary or early middle school classroom. I thought it was very fun to research even though it did take a couple of takes to complete it was somewhat frustrating at times but still very fun. Overall the experience was really fun to create and I may just be in love with this now, be on the look out for a podcast from me...

Here is the podcast for Fun Facts Friday with Ms. Pate Fun Facts Friday

Vacation like a Pro Survey

https://fsu.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_24dAaUIYYbpK5nv

# 9 Flipping upsidedown

Through using the Flipped Classroom teachers can utilize their time in the classroom so ensure students understand the lesson and get help on their homework. Through children watching premade videos on the lesson before coming to class then they are able to ask questions about the lesson while in class and doing the homework. I know personally in the past my mom has done this type of system and it worked really well with her students because they came into class already knowing what they were learning and could come in and do the homework and ask questions. I know one website that my mother has used in the classroom a lot along with instructed me to use myself are Khan Academy videos. I have personally used these and find them very helpful for students of any age.

When I searched online for open sources discussed like in the podcast I found that open sources and content are software and or programs that can be modified and distributed for any purpose educational or otherwise. According to the website that I found an open source is licensed in a manner that provides users with free and perpetual permission to engage in the 5R activities: Retain, Reuse, Revise, Remix, Redistribute. https://www.opencontent.org/definition/

While working on the PowerPoint Information Dissemination assignment I have learned a lot about what I can do to use PowerPoint in the classroom to make things more fun. I learned how to make a master slide that I change myself which was very difficult but will be very useful in the future. I also learned how to hyperlink things into the same PowerPoint, which I used icons on a map to take you to the slide about the icon itself. I found it really fun to make it this interactive and feel I could use this a lot in the classroom in the future. I don’t think that I would use the sound aspect rather just go through it myself, but the lecture notes could come in handy if I have a sub or something someday. Finding an online template was actually very difficult because I couldn’t make up my mind and I had already started making one without an online template but it was very helpful and I really liked using it. I learned a lot in this project and had a lot of fun and will definitely use what I learned in the future.

Everything You're Doing Wrong With Your Pitch

Everything You're Doing Wrong With Your Pitch & How To Fix It de Clark Van Der Beken

There are 7 deadly sins of of pitching and these slides simply and easily explains what they are and how to stop doing them. Along with helpful tips on how to improve your pitch as a whole. This presentation is simple and very straight forward which is very helpful for anyone looking for good tips without all the fluff. 

# 8 Education in full Bloom

Last week we visited the Sports Psychology lab, which was really interesting and fun to learn about. One of the things that stood out to me specifically for the use in the classroom was the glasses that we were shown. I found it interesting how we were told that these had been used in the classroom to see the difference in new and experienced teachers in different situations. Along with reversing the situation and using it to see where students look and view. This can be helpful when you have children who are easily distracted so you can know what by and how to help that problem.

In Blooms Taxonomy is almost a guideline when it comes to educational goals, going along the lines of simple to concrete to abstract, the categories and subcategories go with skills and abilities that are considered necessary when it comes to educational goals. PowerPoint can be applied to all of the categories in Blooms Taxonomy in these ways...
Create: Students being able to create their own PowerPoint’s gives them the presentation abilities, creativity used to make it, public presentation along with often times collaboration.
Evaluate: A teacher may use PowerPoint’s to create games to see what level of comprehension the students are at on certain topics to evaluate where they are struggling and improve that.
Analyze: Classifying and or categorizing information or vocabulary words, along with true or false questions and having students compare and contrast topics being able to analyze them deeper.
Apply: One of the best things a teacher could effectively use in the classroom during presentations is the use of discussion questions to really get the students involved and can apply them to their own lives.
Understand: PowerPoint is really great when it comes too presenting great notes making it easy to understand the topic fully.
Remember: Doing short quizzes or random questions in the PowerPoint along with at the end of the presentation will help students remember the lesson.

http://www.edtechmagazine.com/higher/article/2015/12/5-tech-trends-could-supercharge-education-2016
This website shows trends in education that could energize the classroom in the future. This website as a whole is specifically about education and technology constantly coming out with new articles about the new trends in the classroom along with other things. This specific article talks about new technologies in the classroom such as the virtual reality, 3-D printers and wearable technology. These technologies are predicted to become very influential and highly used in the classroom in the future.

# 7 A Helping Hand

Assistive technologies can be very helpful in and outside of the classroom; one thing that I have learned about in the podcast was through the American with Disabilities Act. Along with how accommodations are required to be made for people with disabilities that need help in and outside of the classroom. Some examples include, voice recognition software, joysticks instead of mouse, braille printers and spelling checkers. I have never known someone who has had to use these devices but I have seen people with them before either around school or college. My mother actually had a student one year who was blind, so she received a braille printer from the school so she could print out his work. Some of the challenges I perceive using these adaptive technologies in my classroom is sometimes technologies do not work and it can be expensive and time consuming to fix. Along with as in the podcast says, it is important to match the right technology with the right person, not everyone can use anything and making sure people have the right thing is important. 

While working on the Web Page Design assignment I have learned a lot while using weebly. First of all I learned how to embed a Google calendar and edit it to actually put events with descriptions. I found placing the survey questions very helpful for if I was an actual teacher taking my kids on a field trip and needed to know specific information this would be great. The project was really fun to make and be creative on but next time I would change the theme and really have fun with the colors and fonts along with making it even more interactive.  http://abigailpateeme2040.weebly.com

Working with Diigo I have learned so much and I think it is really a cool and useful tool overall that I will get a lot of use out of. I think it is really useful if I find a good article that I would like to show the classroom where I can annotate on the sides for good points that I want to tell the classroom. Also I feel that this could be very helpful when collaborating with other professionals. Being able to share cool websites, articles and other things between teachers that could be helpful to read or use is a great idea.

ILP Design: Pinterest Profile on EdTech

I have chosen to create an educational Pinterest profile with different boards that have to do with either education, technology or both. I currently have five boards which are "New Technology, Educational Links, Trends in Education, Educational Quotes, and Ed Tech" which I feel that all can be very beneficial to new teachers. I am selective on exactly what I put in which boards along with annotating each with a description of what it is. Many of the pins are links too new helpful websites or they have the information on the pin itself. I plan to continue to pin more onto the boards along with making new boards when a new category seems fit. I am very excited about this and feel that I will be able to use this more and more in the future! https://www.pinterest.com/abbeypate31/