ILP #2 "Design": Edmodo

For my second ILP I created an Edmodo classroom. Since I want to teach high school English, I created an online classroom for a fictitious 11th grade English class. Some of the assignments I posted were a vocabulary quiz, grammar practice worksheet, and essay prompt. I also included links to online resources such as a video recap of Macbeth and a guide on MLA formatting for essays.

I particularly liked how easy  it was to create quizzes on Edmodo and how clean the format looks. I think that I will use Edmodo for my classroom in the future.

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Post #10

A paragraph about how you think you will use Data Collection tools as a teacher. Be specific about your subject matter area and the grade level. · A paragraph on topics you found most interesting from reviewing your classmates’ blogs. · A paragraph on what technology-related skill you would most like to learn next, and why. · A paragraph on ways in which you might achieve your future educational technology-related goals

Data Collection Tools

I think that data collection tools can be useful for any subject or grade level because surveys let you as the educator know what your students think about the way that you teach. They can be a good way to get feedback on your lessons and help you plan for the future. Surveys can also be a fun way to determine how well your students understand a topic or just gather their opinion on an issue. I think that as a high school English teacher I could definitely use surveys to ask my students if they feel that they understand the chapter of a book we just read. 

Blogs

The thing I found the most interesting about reading everyone else's blogs was seeing how they plan to use technology for their specific age group and subject. There was a diverse mix of majors in our class, and I enjoyed hearing about the ways that my peers going into completely different subjects would use the same technology that I talked about in my blog. 

New Skills

 I think that I would like to learn more about HTML next. Learning a little more about basic coding would be useful for making web pages and blog posts look cool on almost any website. There are lots of websites with courses on the subject, such as Codecademy.

Tech Goals

I think that my biggest challenge with continuing to learn about education technology will be keeping up with all the new things that are constantly coming out. I think that this class gave me some good resources to start with, but being a teacher means that we will constantly have to learn new technology to keep up with the times. Maybe keeping the Twitter I made for this class can help me stay up to date.