~W200 Completed Badges~
Badge # 1: Hour of Code
This tool allows students to explore the world of coding. Students are given a chance to see how their favorite games work and how those who made the game made it work. Students are able to be coders and do different activities to apply all of the lessons they have learned in each program. I would use this program as a way to teach my students about what code is and how it works. Because I think that it's good to allow students to understand how the games they play work. The coding skill is good to have because it opens a door to more curiosity of how the wed works and how each game's code is completely different.
Badge #2: Concept Map
The concept map helps teachers and students either write their lessons or it helps students make different projects. My concept map is the outline of my final porject lesson and I think it really helped make the lesson and even kept everything very nice and organized. I would use this in my classroom when I want to have my students do a project or whenever I want to show them different programs to use to make concept maps. This concept map helps students keep the knowledge they already know on a topic but also student are able to add new information to their maps. I think that these maps are good for the first layout for making lessons. You are able to keep everything clean and whenever someone would like to look over you lesson they are able to follow them easily.
LINK: app.popplet.com/#/p/6711459 Badge #3: Chatterpix
This app has students either use a picture of them I would use this in my classroom all the time. It's such a fun way to get you students excited about learning the topic of the lesson. I would either use it to introduce lessons or I would have my students create their own Chatterpix for any type of project. I think my students would love to explore this app and even make their own. The app makes it fun to do presentations and make them even more fun to make and do. My students would use this app to introduce themselves too. But I would use this app to introduce the topic of the day or even as a sample for a project that they will do. This given even more people a better chance to find out how to learn in a more fun and creative way.
Badge: #4: Quizizz
For this badge I decided to make a quizizz that I was able to use in my online lesson project. I think that this recourse is a good resource to have in the classroom because it has all you students engaged in the lesson and they have fun playing it. They also get a chance to practice the material in a fun way. Everyone would participate and would be having a fun time while learning the material given to them. The quizizz I made for my lesson is centered around character traits but also there are questions about what goes on in the story too. I myself enjoy quizizz because you are able to go at you own pace and so I believe my students would enjoy using this resource and continuing to learn and practice from it.
Badge #5: Content Exploration
I think all these tools are very helpful for a classroom environment. There's tools for all sorts of lessons and teachers can make their lessons around all the different tools. I would use the online white board all the time in my class. Because I think it is such a fun and engaging way to have your students involved with class and the lesson. It allows them to interact with anything that is on the board and they will be able to have a lot of fun with it too. All the math game resources are nice to have in a classroom too. They are a fun way to teach math and the students will feel like instead of just learning in a boring way they will be learning in a way that is fun to them. I would us a lot of these different resources all the time in my classroom. Because I think that is I was to use them, my students would enjoy being in class and would want to continue learning that way and enjoy coming to class everyday.
Badge #6: Pinterest
I think I would use Pinterest to find fun ideas to use in my own classroom. Just like the board I made I would try to use some of the aspects from those pins in my room. I would also try to find fun lesson ideas to use in my classroom. I feel like the resource has a lot of goof ideas for what to do in class or how to decorate your classroom. I would even use Pinterest in my lesson plans. Like for my online lesson we are working on settings so I would have my students use this resource to find aspects of a setting and they could use it for a part of my online lesson. But I think personally I would use it just to gain ideas for my classroom. Pinterest has a ton of opportunities for my students to use it for any project that I would give them,
Badge #7: Plagiarism and Copyright
For copyright you need to have permission to use the content that is provided to you. So when you use different resources you should look at what the rule of copyright for that site is before you use it. People should look at the copyright rules for a ton of the sites online and even music because if they want to use them they might have trouble with effective projects or works. I would try to give my students examples of copyright and who are the most affected by it. I would try to incorporate learning about copyright into my future classroom by doing different activities. I would try to make activities that focus on finding out if using a certain source would be okay according to the copyright rules that I would list on the assignment. I would have my students know how important it is to check if something is copyrighted or can be copyrighted so they know which source is a good one to use. For plagiarism I would try to teach them about the meaning of it while also explaining why it’s important to not copy someone else's work. While giving this explanation I would give them examples of what plagiarism could look like online and even try to give them in person examples. I would tell my students that copying word for word from a source of information is a form of plagiarism. Then I would try to do different activities to help them understand how to not copy someone's work. I would try to teach them how to paraphrase in an easy way or even try to teach them to include the writer or producer of the source. Along with paraphrasing I would also try to teach my students about citing their sources and make sure that they know that citing their sources is very important and will help them in the future with the different papers they need to write.
Badge #8: QR Code
This tool creates QR codes for whatever websites that you could want a QR code for. The QR code makes it easier to access websites that need to have a quick access for. I would use this resource all the time in my classroom. Because this would make it very fun for my students to get to these different websites. It also is faster than having to type out the entire web URL. I would try to link a lot of my most used websites to QR codes just so it is easier for my students to access them at home or even in the classroom. I would also make these for other teachers too who are wanting to make their classroom easier and accessible to the students. I would also have QR codes linked to different websites for my school events or calendars. I would also try to use QR codes for different assignments I would have for my classroom.
Badge #9: Google-EDU (Digital Citizenship & Safety)
This resource helps give background information on how to keep you and even your students safe when accessing the internet and making accounts for different websites. The internet now is full of people who want nothing more than to do bad things online. It's important that the students know how to protect themselves. They need to know how to keep their personal information off of the internet or if it need to be on there to keep it safe and protected from anyone who would want to take it. I would try to teach my students how to make good and easy to remember passwords for all their different accounts. I would also try to tech them to remember to write the passwords down and put it somewhere they will remember. The internet now is very dangerous so I would also have my students know that it's important to keep all personal information protected and not let anyone know any of your passwords.
Badge #10: Interactive Image
This is a great resource to use in the classroom. In my example I had created an interactive image that help students identify three-dimensional shapes from a single picture. This source helps you create a practice or review source for your students by having one image that students can interact with. I would try to use this resource for history topics to help the students recognize those concepts. I think this helps the students practice and recognize topics a lot more than just reviewing them over and over in class. This resource provides a fun and new way to learn new topics as an introduction to a new lesson.
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~Technology skills Assessment~
BeginningMy Strengths:
I think that my three strengths when using technology are using Office 360, using mobile technology, and navigating through any web browser. I believe these are my three strengths because through the years I have taken many classes over office 360 and have navigated through many web browsers. I have used mobile technology through my whole life so I know about a good amount of information and know how to fix some problems that might arise.
Areas for Improvement:
I could improve on using different websites to help teach my students, working with programs like photoshop and iMovie, and using smart boards. In the past I haven't had much practice with using different websites or using smart boards. My schools had used computers but not as much as using normal pencil and paper. I've used photoshop but not so much to be called a pro at it. So over all I could improve majorly with these three things.
My professional Goals:
I think I would set the goal of making sure my students get the most out of learning off the screen and also I would set the goal of making sure that the sites the students go to are appropriate and useful websites instead of the ones that give them false information. I believe that it's important for my students to fully understand what they are learning off the screen. So I want my students to make sure to get the full amount of information from learning online. It's also important for student to know and understand what website are good to use and those websites that are not good at all.
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EndMy Improvement and My Professional Goals:
I think I improved tremendously over the semester. As you can see my chart is very full compared to the beginning of the semester. With all the things I needed to improve on I began to become better at it each day I work on the skills. I also did a very good job at making it easy for students to learn online. I think in my lesson I include very valuable information and I provide the very best activities for them to learn everything I am trying to teach them. I think from my lesson students will be able to get to most out of it.
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