Tuesday, November 29, 2016

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

Tuesday, November 15, 2016

Vacation like a Pro Survey

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# 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.

Tuesday, November 1, 2016

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.