Blog Journal #4
My first experience with online learning was in high school. I took my health/P.E. course online with Florida Virtual School. The program was mostly synchronous; I was able to get live feedback instantly from my professor and the class would engage in chatrooms together. I have also taken quite a few online courses at FSU but they have been mostly asynchronous. The platforms that all of my online classes at FSU have used are Blackboard and now Canvas. In my opinion, online learning is a great advancement that has been made in the education system. It allows many students to learn from any location and it is usually cheaper than traditional education. Although I think it's a convenient and great opportunity, I still believe that classroom learning will produce the most benefit for the students. I think being able to see the teacher and speak to classmates in person can be really beneficial to many students. I also think the structure that classroom learning offers is beneficial to both students and teachers.
Open educational resources (OER) are openly licensed resources that can be used in a classroom. For example, textbooks, exams, instructional videos, etc. I found an article that talks about what OER is and how it can be used in the classroom. The article features 2 lists of great sites to get OER from and they are divided by K-12 and higher education. The article also talks about when to use OER vs when to use your own material. Finally, it features a checklist to use to evaluate the OER that you have found to make sure it's appropriate for your classroom/lesson.
OER Article: Open Educational Resources
While working on the newsletter design, I learned many new skills in MS word. I learned how to add columns to the text and more about how to use word art. I enjoyed learning new skills on word, but it was difficult to try and come up with a topic to write the newsletter. I did not love that part so much. Once I had my topic and figured out my outline, it was much easier. To improve next time, I can play around more with the themes and color schemes to make it more colorful and appealing to the eye. These skills can be used in my future career as a way to send out information to a group of people. I hope to be a nurse so I may one day be leading a team of other nurses and I can use these skills to distribute information in a formal way. I did my newsletter design for my old school back home and I wrote it on technology in the classroom.
- I commented on Olivia and Edda's blogs this week!
Open educational resources (OER) are openly licensed resources that can be used in a classroom. For example, textbooks, exams, instructional videos, etc. I found an article that talks about what OER is and how it can be used in the classroom. The article features 2 lists of great sites to get OER from and they are divided by K-12 and higher education. The article also talks about when to use OER vs when to use your own material. Finally, it features a checklist to use to evaluate the OER that you have found to make sure it's appropriate for your classroom/lesson.
OER Article: Open Educational Resources
While working on the newsletter design, I learned many new skills in MS word. I learned how to add columns to the text and more about how to use word art. I enjoyed learning new skills on word, but it was difficult to try and come up with a topic to write the newsletter. I did not love that part so much. Once I had my topic and figured out my outline, it was much easier. To improve next time, I can play around more with the themes and color schemes to make it more colorful and appealing to the eye. These skills can be used in my future career as a way to send out information to a group of people. I hope to be a nurse so I may one day be leading a team of other nurses and I can use these skills to distribute information in a formal way. I did my newsletter design for my old school back home and I wrote it on technology in the classroom.
- I commented on Olivia and Edda's blogs this week!
I agree with you that being able to see the teacher and speak to classmates in person can be really beneficial to many students.
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