ILP Participation -- Lynda.com tutorial

For my second ILP, I again chose to watch a Lynda.com tutorial because I found that resource to be really helpful the first time and wanted more experience. This time, I chose to watch a video on Google Forms because I have some prior experience with creating surveys for some political science classes and wanted to learn more about how to control and use them. The video was essentially an introduction to creating a form on Google Forms and collecting and analyzing that data later. I had no specific experience with Google Forms since my prior poli sci work has been with Qualtrics and it was really fascinating seeing all the options one was presented with by Google. Before watching the tutorial, I had no idea that it could be used to create in-depth surveys as well as applications and even tests and quizzes. I can appreciate the versatility of Forms as well as the way it is integrated into the rest of Google's products. I especially appreciated how the tool seems very user-friendly and is designed in a way that encourages anyone to become familiar with it after just a short period of use.

Included below are screenshots of the tutorial at various points throughout the video. Just like last time, I chose to write my notes by hand rather than using the built-in note taker because I find information easier to retain that way. That being said, if I was a teacher using Lynda.com at regular intervals, I probably would consider saving my notes to the note tab because they are automatically synced to your Google Drive.

Blog Journal 9

The "flipped classroom" in this context refers to the practice of "flipping" classroom and home-learning activities. Under this routine, classroom activities focus more on using and applying knowledge learned by the students through watching lectures online on their own time. This allows more class time to be spent discussing rather than reviewing or introducing the material. It also grants students more independence and agency since they must learn on their own.

Open Educational Resources (OER) are resources with a range of permissions that typically grant a user a degree of freedom. These freedoms can range from the freedom to share the OER with anyone to freedom to edit and share, to freedom to even remix the content with other materials. The original content creator has the choice of whether or not to extend the range of options to the general public and anyone who uses OERs must credit the creator. This ensures that there is a wealth of knowledge and tools for virtually anyone to use so long as they respect the original creator and responsibly use the content.

Assignment 4: PowerPoint Information Dissemination

Assignment 5: PowerPoint Interaction

I learned a LOT from using PowerPoint for assignments 4 and 5. Before A4, my experience with PowerPoint was limited to creating basic slideshows with basic transitions and whatnot. I was really delighted at all of the skills I learned when constructing my PowerPoint on the importance of voting, such as the minutiae of the animations and transitions. For A5, I decided to create a "choose your own adventure" type of game focusing on three explorers of the New World. During this assignment, I used some of my knowledge I gained from A4 although I had to expand my range of skills. I enjoyed creating a nonlinear PowerPoint because I had never done that before and I can totally see myself using that skill in the future in my own classroom.