ILP "Design" - TinkerCad - Free 3D printer software

 Approximately a month and a half ago, we visited the Tech Sandbox on campus. I got to see a 3D printer in action. I used TinkerCad to design the mathematical symbols that I could use in my special education class to help teach my students what these symbols look like. I can also use them to help teach my students the order of operations. TinkerCad made it very easy to create these different things.

Blog 10: A Little of Everything

1.  Data Collection: How the heck am I going to use this? Well, in a special education class, no matter what grade, I am 100% sure that I will figure out how to use it. I can use it to decide what animal the next day should revolve around. One of the teachers who taught only disabled kids at my high school would make each week about a different type of animal. The kids would learn a different fact each day. I can also use data collection to teach the kids how to make graphs out of data that we have collected.
2.  All the blogs are so cool. I loved seeing how different people layed out their blog posts. I enjoyed seeing people's suggestions on assistive technologies that we can use in the classroom. I thought it was interesting seeing everyone's educational technology involvement before this class. I also thought it was great that we had to include pictures or embeded files in our blogs to show our work.
3.  I want to learn how to use drawing programs so that I can draw things out for my students without them questioning what I am trying to draw. I think that a lot of teachers need these types of programs because many teachers can't draw to save our lives. There are many drawing programs online that are free. I will probably try different programs and follow the instructions and then decide which one I like the best.

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What exactly does the term "Flipped Classroom" mean? According to our textbook, Teaching and Learning with Technology, the flipped classroom is an innovative blended delivery model that currently has a following in K-12 and post secondary education. Now what the heck does that mean? This means that the teacher of the classroom would previously record their lectures and have the students listen to them prior to coming to class so that the instructor has more time to work with the students during class on the actual content that was covered in the vodcast. This is considered the "flip" of classrooms. Joe Hirsch flipped his classroom and uses Office Mix to display his lectures. Check it out: JoeHirsch's Videos.

Open education is all about making educational experiences available to a wide audience of learners. According to opensource.com, open education is a philosophy about the way people should produce, share, and build on knowledge. The podcast says that open content is what teachers can and cannot do with the downloadable instructional materials that they find online. According to www.opencontent.org/definition/, the term "open content" describes copyrightable work that is licensed in a manner that provides users with free and perpetual permission to engage in the 5R activities.

• retain: the right to make, own and control copies of the content
• reuse: the right to use the content in a wide range of ways
• revise: the right to adapt, adjust, modify, or alter the content itself
• remix: the right to combine the original or revised content with other material to create something new
• redistribute: the right

Open source is a term that means that it is a software whose source code is open to anyone anywhere. According to 

https://opensource.com/resources/what-open-source, "open soure” refers to something people can modify and share because it’s design is publicly accessible. https://www.oercommons.org/ is an example of open education.

Working on the PowerPoint for Information project, I learned that I get frustrated very easily over small things. I figured out that you can put several different animations on the same object within a slide. I loved creating a game using PowerPoint and I never realized that there are so many templates that are premade for us by other people. If I were to do this again, I would choose another template. I can use this in my classroom to teach my students simple math.

How To Become... LORD OF THE SLIDES

How To Become... LORD OF THE SLIDES from Paul Brown

Most of these slides have very few words which helps the viewers really understand the reason of the slide. This SlideShare really helps explain how to create amazing slideshows that people will actually want to look at.

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     When we  went to the Sports Psych Lab we saw many different types of technologies I could use the Thought Technology’s biofeedback in my classroom to measure student's physiological functions. For example, I will be able to measure and analyze my students' physiological variables such as: Skin Conductance Response, Heart Rate Variability, Electroencephalogram, and Electromyography to understand what is going on within the students. Especially for students who can't talk or express their emotions and feelings, this could really help me and other teachers understand their children better.
     According to 
http://www.bloomstaxonomy.org/Blooms%20Taxonomy%20questions.pdf, Bloom’s Taxonomy provides an important framework for teachers to use to focus on higher order thinking. By providing a hierarchy of levels, this taxonomy can assist teachers in designing performance tasks, crafting questions for conferring with students, and providing feedback on student work. A teacher needs to plan a lesson, including a variety of activities and questions, making each student think & function at each level of the taxonomy. This allows teachers to be creative. When discussing the topic of animals: 

• Level I: Knowledge: Create a slide that reviews the information that the students have learned about animals.
• Level II: Comprehension: On the next slide create a chart that compares and contrasts the animals (eg. venn diagram: one circle for dogs and another for cats). Relate the similarities and differences of the animals in the venn diagrams to larger animals. For example, talk about the differences between domesticated cats and tigers, cheetas, and lions. 
• Level III: Application: Have students interview class guests who own pets. On the next slide help the students create a survey about what pets people in the class and the class guests and record it on the slide. Have the students construct a collage all about animals.
• Level IV: Analysis: Compare and contrast the number of different kinds of pets from the survey with the students. On a new slide make a chart comparing the different number of two types of the animals such as the number of cat and dog owners.
• Level V: Synthesis: Develop a list based on the relationship between the type of animal that gets the highest number (ex: dog) and a child.
• Level VI: Evaluation: Lead a discussion on the different number of each type pet. Ask the students how they would evaluate the data.

     This is a website that has outlined 10 technology trends that will shape higher education in the coming years. These trends are adaptive learning, predictive analytics, CRM, exostructure, open microcredentials, digital assessment, smart machines, OER Ecosystem, listening and sensing technology, and collaboration technology.

#7 Haha!!! I Know How to Use This Blog in my Class!!!!

• According to the Adaptive Tech  podcast, adaptive or assistive technologies are those that help people with disabilities more effectively use computing equipment. It goes on to list out ways that people with physical disabilities and learning disabilities can use adaptive technologies such as voice recognition software instead of typing, use text-to-speech software that will read the text to them, talking spelling checkers, speech recognition software, and computer based organizers that help keep students's assignments organized. According to the book, word prediction software can be used to assist students who are phisically impaired by reducing the number of keystrokes it takes to express a thought. Students can use alternative keyboards such as expanded keyboards, one-handed keyboards, and on-screen keyboards. The students can use these to make it easier to type. I personally have used a voice recognition software called Dragon Dictation to write out my papers because it took hours to type out my paper whereas I could say it in about 5 minutes. As a future special needs teacher, I assume that I will be using many different types of adaptive technology in my classroom to help my students learn the best that they can. I think that, as our society becomes more digitalized, there will need to be more assistive technologies that will help those with special needs so that they can learn too.
• Doing the Web Page Design assignment, I learned how to make a properly functioning website that other people can see. I liked the design aspect of the project but I did not like the fact that I couldn't make that website perfect in how I wanted it to look. I think that the forum of Weebly is great, once you truly learn how to use it. I can definately cleanliness as to how everything comes together and is overall presented. In my future career, I could see myself using a similar if not the same program to make a class website.

• In using Diigo these past few weeks, I have learned that we can annotate websites, create a list of resources, obtain a professional network where I can get new resources from other instructors, and how to organize my websites so that I know where things are when I need them. In my classroom, I can annotate websites on the board as we are going over the article. I will also be able to share new documents/websites with my collegues and other professionals.