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ILP #2

For my second ILP, I decided to create an InfoGraphic. I created this from the website found  here . The website was very complicated to use, but the InfoGraphic is a great way for visual learners to receive information. https://create.piktochart.com/output/29720792-new-piktochart

Blog Post #10

Our seventh assignment utilized two wonderful skills that would benefit almost any teacher. One of those tools was Microsoft Excel which we used to record the data that we collected. As we have discussed in class, Excel can be used to record data for the classroom such as grades or maybe a time schedule. Excel has a wonderful system that allows averages, minimums, maximums, and sums to be easily calculated, as well as other numerical values. Charts and graphs can easily be created from the data that is entered. All of these tools would be beneficial for any teacher to assist with grading and keeping up with students' grades. Surveys would also be an asset for teachers to assess the feelings of their students and the parents. Excel can be used at any stage during education to record grades. Surveys can be used at any time as well, but I think surveys would be very useful for a high school student studying statistics because of the survey information that is discussed in statistics...

Blog Post #9

The "Flipped Classroom" is basically all that the name suggests. The order in which things are done in the classroom is reversed, meaning that the outside of class work that is required is done before attending the class as well as the instruction. In class, activities and interaction is performed with classmates. Vanderbilt University's website suggests that flipping the usual processes of the classroom allows for lower cognitive processing to occur outside of the classroom and this allows for the higher level cognitive processing to occur in the classroom. The website provides a lot of useful information on the "Flipped Classroom".  The podcast detailed the terms Open Education, Open Source, and Open Content. First, Open Education refers to making educational material accessible to a vast amount of people. When I think of this, I think of the articles that are published on the FSU Libraries website for all FSU students to access. Next, Open Source is free...