Blog #10

     For this last blog, I'm going to start out by discussing data collection surveys, and how they can be used in class. As a future educator, I often find myself wanting to be in a younger classroom - elementary school, 1st through 5th grade ideally. These data collection tools can be very helpful for younger students, specifically to get an idea of how they learn well, and what types of lessons they like the most. The students will be interested to answer the questions if they know it will affect the classroom and how they learn, and I think it's very important to design lessons around the students. It's impossible to do that without survey tools.

    While reading my classmate's blogs, what I found most interesting was everyone's different experiences with distance learning and COVID-19! Everyone has their own unique experience regarding distance learning, and it was really interesting to read about the different technologies that schools used and different ways that students had to adjust to remote lessons. Another thing that was very useful were the links and resources I found while reviewing my classmate's blogs. They all had put down different sites/resources than me, and it was cool to check out the different helpful sites (for example, with Blog #9, some classmates had interesting resources on staying up to date on educational technology)! I think having each other's blogs to look at is a great way to build our learning network!

    As for my next technology venture, I'd say my next goal is to get better at the other Microsoft applications that we don't cover in this class, mainly Excel. This is only because Microsoft is so widely used today, and along with Word and PowerPoint, it's important to know the rest. In Excel, there are several functions that also allow for easy graphing and taking data, which can make science or math classes much easier. Learning Excel will definitely help me as a future educator - and after that, I hope to learn more online platforms that could be potentially used in a classroom.

    

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