EDM 310 Final Reflection

I learned so much throughout this course. At the beginning of the semester I knew very little about technology, and the things I could create with it. In just a few short weeks I learned how to successfully create a Free App trailer, EdPuzzle, and a interactive PowerPoint. My favorite project was creating the EdPuzzle activity. I think it is a great way to start of teaching a lesson to students, and also will give the teacher knowledge on how much her students know. My confidence level when it comes to technology is so much greater than it was at the beginning of the semester.
I will take the things that I learned from this course and apply it to my future classroom. I am already planning to use EdPuzzle to have an interactive lecture with the students. When you have more technology in the classroom, I feel like it will engage the students to learn and will keep their attention. I am very glad I had the opportunity to learn about the different ways I can use technology when planning a lesson. I look forward to using everything I learned from this class to one day benefit my future students.

Interactive PowerPoint

I learned a lot of things when creating the Interactive PowerPoint. Selecting what subject and how I wanted to go about deciding what I wanted to do was the easy part of the assignment. However, when it came down to actually putting it all together, I has a few difficulties. The main problem I had was figuring out how to make a certain object trigger with the other, and making it flow together. One I received help from the lab assistants, it seemed so much easier to do.
I enjoyed this project, because before this assignment I did not even know you could create small interactive games through PowerPoint. It can be time consuming if you are not familiar with how to do it, but I think next time I do this it will be a lot easier. I think this is a great way for students to have fun practicing the material they are learning. I definitely plan using something like this again for my future class.

ALEX Experience

ALEX is a great tool for teachers to use to prepare lesson plans. I enjoyed searching around on the website, and found it very helpful when deciding what subject I wanted to use for my interactive PowerPoint assignment. The website has so many different lesson ideas for all subjects.
I found it interesting that there was a tab titled "course of study" that shows what the Alabama standards are for each subject and grade level. The level I chose to do for the interactive lesson is first grade math using addition and subtraction. The lesson plan is titled "Number Carousel", and is a great activity for students to do in groups. Browsing around on the ALEX website was very helpful, and I will definitely use it when planning my own lessons one day.

Number Carousel Lesson Plan From ALEX