Blog 10

     Using the data collection and Excel are both very interesting tools. Doing the Data collection in class was the first time I have created a survey using a website. I had so much fun learning how to do this. These tools could be a good way to learn about your students.  A way I could use data collections from my students would be through mini quizzes about the subject matter. This lets you know as a teacher what your students are excelling at and are struggling with. With Excel, it is so easy to keep track of class grades, average, minimums and maximums. We learned how to do this in class and it was very informative.  For example, If I was a math teacher for high school students I would have them learn my lesson through class materials and every week create a data collection survey to see what the students need more help with so we could go over that material more. Then after their grades are sent through, I could import all this data into excel to track the average score of the class and the minimum grades to see if the material was not absorbed thoroughly.

     A few topics I found interesting while reading my classmates blogs are flipped classroom and Powerpoint interaction. The reason I found these two topics interesting was because they were the two subjects I found most interesting and it was nice to read other peoples interests in the same topics. For example, flipped classrooms have a range of opinions. Some of the blogs I read believe that a flipped classroom is not the way you should run a classroom environment. On the other hand, some classmates blogged that a flipped classroom helps students be more creative and get more socially involved with their classmates. As for powerpoint there were also a range of opinions. Some of my classmates wrote about powerpoint as not so exciting and they already knew how to use powerpoint. On the other hand there were so many of my classmates who had a similar opinion as me. I thought that powerpoint could do so much more than we knew how to do previously. A lot of my classmates described how much they enjoyed the lessons about powerpoint and could see themselves using powerpoint in their future career as an educator. 

      I think a technological skill that I would like to learn and become better at is Excel. Excel is a great tool to use in education as a student and a teacher. Excel could also be used in any business industry to handle money and information. I would like to get more educated on all the things that Excel can do. Excel can easily put together any information given to you and analyze things quickly and efficiently. I think that using Lynda would be a great way to learn more about Excel and all the things it can do. Our generation is full of amazing technology and resources that provide help on how to use them.