Hey everybody, I think I can use data collection and reporting as a history teacher as a way to check my students' knowledge about topics so I can better know what I should teach and what I can skip over. I could let them do a survey at the beginning of the year or semester, asking how well they know certain historical topics and ask them what they want to learn. This would help me better refine my lesson plan and make it a better fit for my class so I am not going over things they either already know or something they are not interested in. With data reporting, I think I would use it as a way to better visualize certain things for them to understand. I love visualizations, as seen in my two ILPS, therefore I would use excel to make some simple graphs and charts to show them a new way to look at the numbers/data. My favorite thing when I was looking at other peoples blogs was looking at there assignments that we had to post about. Seeing every bodies website, PowerPoint and ILP...
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Hey Everybody, The concept of a Flipped Classroom is very intriguing to me, in the concept, the time in the classroom is not devoted to a lecture where the teacher talks to the students but a time for the students to work on assignments and projects together with the supervision of the teacher. That then means that the student will learn the materiel or the lesson before the class through online lectures and should be prepared. I think this kind of classroom structure could work with many subjects, though, a total switch to this system might not be the best move. A gradual transition would be needed to able the students the ability to get accustomed to because it is not the traditional way to teach. OERs are for me resources(that include lesson plans, texts, assignments, and other things) that teachers can use, that are in the public domain and do not need to be bought. They are free to use for anyone and their were created by a person or a group of people for that very reason...
Hey everyone, Diigo has been very interesting to work with these through the last GICAs that we did. It was a program that I never knew about or even heard of. Diigo for me is great cause allows for a group to crowd source resources and articles. This would allow teachers to use crowd sourcing in their career more with both students and other teachers. I can see apply what we use Diigo for in our GICAs in a regular classroom with whatever topic we are working on, so they can see how to use the program and how they can work together to retrieve and annotate possible sources for a project or paper. The ability to comment on others annotations is also a really good way students to work together and talk about sources. Bloom's Taxonomy in lesson creation can be boosted through technology, to prove this, I will go over how PowerPoint can help at each level of the Taxonomy chart. Create: PowerPoint assignment are a great way to put the students in the shoes of the teachers and gi...
Hey everybody, https://voicethread.com/myvoice/thread/13191825/79734998 For my ILP #2 I used the data visualization software known as Tableau to create a story through data That I can use in a classroom setting. Tableau is a great product becasue it offers a lot of ways to create visuals than other programs like excel can offer. The project I created through Tableau was a simple visual story about Cuban sugar production and its political implications. It is linked below. https://public.tableau.com/profile/elias.g.larralde#!/vizhome/CubanSugarSampleStory/Story1
Hey everybody, Twitter is something else. I never had one before this class because I did not what I would do with it because I was just use to Instagram. But when I had to make one for this course, I made sure to make one for my general academic self and not just for this course. After following and using twitter for a little bit I realized that is a great way to communicate fast and to a wide audience. For example, as I mentioned in previous blog post, the use of twitter by historians (by using #twitterstorians) was so immense that it straight up shocked me. It was probably because I never had an image of a historian or professor using twitter as a social media platform bur it seems to be their favorite. To be honest though, I am not an active twitter user when it comes to making original posts, i mostly just like or retweet things that I like or find interesting. I have to challenge myself to be a more active twitter user with the community in order to develop my PLN and exp...
Hey everybody, This blog is talking the importance of having a personal websites as a teacher or for your own class and about my experiences at the Tech Sandbox. Teachers websites are not a thing I have encounter in my middle school or high school. I researched my schools and saw that they just followed the same template given to them by the Palm Beach School County. This meant that there was no teacher website that I could look at that came from one of my past schools. To be fair to them, most of that was done on Edline, which was our version of Canvas or Blackboard. Therefore I choose to pick ones that I found online. I found some teachers pages from Fairview Elementry School ( http://csdcomets.sharpschool.net/schools/fairview_elementary_school/teacher_classroom_pages ) The first page I was directed to was an overview of all the teachers in this school. The overall look is okay, it isn't as engaging as i want it to do but it is not as bad as some others that I saw before l...
Hey everybody, We are starting to work more with Diigo in class with GICAs and in class activities. In the beginning of the semester I had no idea what it was or what even "social bookmarking" meant. Know that we have had sometime to use the program, its a cool concept that I did not know was out there that people and educators can use. I like the idea of crowd sourcing through annotated websites or articles cause allows more groundwork to be cover when researching a topic in a group because more people are finding relevant resources for you to explore. The interface and how the program works can be fixed in my opinion. The program feels a bit clunky at times when I am trying to annotate it and that makes it feel like I cannot annotate it the way I want to. Overall I think social bookmarking is something I want to explored more in my career. Blogging is something I thought I would not like to do because to be honest, I never saw myself having a blog ever in my life. Thoug...
Hey everybody! Twitter. This semester I learned that this website and app can be used more than just a social media platform but a way to develop your resources and network with people in your field. When I started my twitter I wanted to follow some historians and museum workers to see what they are thinking and how they use to platform in their career. I was worried that I was not going to find anybody to follow and that it was not a thing for historians to use twitter, in general. Oh boy, I was so wrong. Historians love Twitter to an extent that I did not expect at all . It was really surprising and inspiring that all these historians where actively talking about their work and reaching out to other historians. The main way I saw all this was through #twitterstorians which took me to historians and history professors talking about their research, work, job openings, how to teach a class and many more topics. One thing I saw a lot was people asking for help either on finding boo...
HI everybody! Above is the link to my first ILP in which I took an online course through LinkedIn Learning. I went through a data visualization course which was very interesting because it is something I want to use more in the future when I present my research data to the public. I wne over my experience with LinkedIn learning online and the course in general. The next stage is learning how to use a specific data visualization software called Tableau in an educational and research setting in my ILP #2, so look out for that in the coming weeks! I hope you enjoy. https://voicethread.com/share/13047992/ Elias
With our goal to create a more technology inclusive classroom for the 21st century, there are many questions and discussions we need to have in utilizing ethical implementation of tech. We can create a lot in education using technology, the biggest example would be the creation of Microsoft Office and its now ubiquitous usage in creating documents and information. For most of my educational life,starting around middle school, MS word has been what I have used for many assignments and papers if I was not told it was suppose to be paper. The interface was something I got accustomed to as just a part of my life as a student and will probably be for the rest of my school and career life. My teachers used MS word to create my assignments and documents to give to my parents to sign or show. The program has expedited our ability to create and share documents and should be used in the educational setting always to get students use to the program. However, a layer t...
The 21st century classroom needs technology in order to better suit the 21st century student. Education and the classroom should not be a place that is behind the times but a place that mimics the same technological environment that the students are accustomed to at their homes. This will also allow students to see the capability of technology in the educational context. The ability to search for knowledge and data has been expedited and revolutionized because of tech therefore we have to evolve our curriculum to talk about and use this in the formal setting of the classroom. The International Society of Technology in Education is a a steward in allowing this evolution to happen in the classroom. There standards for both students and educators allows a guideline of how one can integrate and use tech in education. For me personally, the role for educators to be collaborators is very important to tech success in education. The development of resources for both students and educat...
Hello everybody! My name is Eli and this is my blog that I will use for my Introduction to Educational Technology course at FSU. I am a third year student majoring in History and minoring in Museum Studies. I am planning to going to graduate school after I graduate from FSU in order to become a professor in Ethnomusicology, which is the study of the social and cultural importance of music around the world. Personally I have a particular interest in Latin America and the Caribbean music and its evolution throughout history. My prior experience with using tech in an educational setting was first having computer lab in elementary school. I remember the whole point of the class was to get us to type faster through programs but us kids were more excited to play games after we completed our tasks for the day. Then in middle school, most of my teachers had Smart boards which was really cool to see because they could do a lot of things with that in their class. However, when I went to h...