Danielle's EME2040 Blog

For my second ILP I chose to create a Prezi. It's interesting because as often as I've seen this program used to create presentations I had never actually used it myself. Since I was new to the site, I experimented with a few different layouts and formatting. But after about 15 minutes or so of playing around with Prezi, I actually began to put together a presentation. As I've mentioned, I want to teach elementary, so I thought I'd create a presentation on how to read clocks and tell time. In my presentation you'll see I have a practice slide with different clocks on there. While I was searching for inspiration, I stumbled upon a site called Math-Aids.com which is able to create entire worksheets. I checked to ensure I could incorporate their work into my presentation, and since their copyright allowed reuse for educational purposes, I was able to add aspects of their worksheet into my slides. Below is a link to my Prezi, enjoy! https://prezi.com/view/d8Ssf25

As a teacher, since I'd like to teach 1st or 2nd grade, I'd probably use surveys with their parents. This might be to see how long the students take on their homework at home, to vote on field trips, plan classroom parties, etc. I just foresee using it to communicate with the students parents more than the students themselves. However, I could see maybe using surveys to ask students what things they'd like to learn about. For example, if in science we were learning about insects, I could ask "Which insect would you like to learn more about, butterflies or honeybees?" As for Excel, I'd use this to keep a record of the students grades. I think it'd be important to have a record of the grades outside of the actual school system in case the system glitches or isn't working. The most interesting topics I've found from reading my classmates' blog has been the different Independent Learning Projects. I like seeing the different topics and technolog

A flipped classroom is a teaching style in which the teacher assigns students lectures at home and helps them work through practice problems in class. It allows for a more interactive and involved classroom, but it does have some disadvantages. I had one class in high school that was flipped, and often students would put off the lectures so they didn't reap the benefits of this teaching style because they were not listening to the assigned lectures and fulling engaging in the class. For those who do watch the lectures and take notes, flipped classrooms can be a great advantage because it allows the students to think about concepts and have time to think of helpful questions for the teacher. This in turn provides a deeper level of understanding for the students. My highschool chemistry teacher used YouTube to post her videos. A link to her channel can be found here . But I've always found Khan Academy to have the most helpful videos in any subject I've studied. A link to Kha