Derivative Instructional Video Made With Edpuzzle
My first example of my best work is an EDpuzzle video. In our class, we had to create a mini instructional video. I created my video on WeVideo, and it covered the derivative rules: sum rule, product rule and quotient rule. After I created this video we were assigned to use our mini instructional video for our EDppuzzle video. Since WeVideo was not compatable with EDpuzzle, I used another tool we had learned about in class, called Screencast. Screen cast is a tool where teachers can record basically any size version of their computer screen that they want to show their students and whatever they do on the screen is what the students see in the final video presentation. Teachers use screencast to show students new websites, give lectures, etc. Once I had made a copy of my mini instructional video through screencast I uploaded it to EDpuzzle. EDpuzzle is also a very engaging tool becuase it allows teachers select any video they want from a large selection of choice and implement questions into the video. This tool is really effective because it forces students to be paying attention becuase they never know when a question will be coming, and teachers are able to see who answered what and who didn't watch the video at all. I'm very proud of this piece of work because I combined three different tools when creating it for my future classroom. I believe that all three of these tools can be very useful for the classrooom and can be easiy implemented. If you want to visit this video on the EDpuzzle website, click on "Derivative Instructional Video" in the title and if you want to visit the home page for the EDpuzzle website, click on "EDpuzzle" in the title.
Infographic On Classroom Rules Created With Piktochart
This infographic was an assignment we had in class to show our students what is accepted in the classroom concerning technology devices. I created this infographic with Piktochart. Piktochart is an easy drag and drop inforgraphic that any student could learn to use. It has all the tools of a high level designing computer program with the difficulty level of a elementary school game. I used Piktochart for multiple assignments throughout my W200 and I can say it is a tool I would like to use in my future class. Throughout the W200 class, we had Class Preps due at the begining of every week that covered the main topic that we would be discussing in depth that week. The week I created this infographic was when we were discussing the value of technology and how we can make sure that students take them just as seriously as we do. When creating this tool, I remembered that we had just recently learned how to create memes and use them in different tools. I also knew that memes are really popular among students, and if I can make my poster more comical and appealling to the student eye then I was going to make sure I implemented a couple memes into my important rules on technology. I know that with the different memes, the students will read the infographic and be compltely aware of the rules in the class. If you want to visit the flyer in a different page click on "Inforgraphic On Classroom Rules" in the title and if you want to visit the Piktochart site click on "Piktochart" in the title.
Personal Learning Network Display Created With Storify
This is a display of my PLN, personal learning network, that I created with the help of Storify. Storify is a tool that can combine any story you want from Twitter by finding them through hashtags, codes, etc. Storify then can put all your material from twitter in one slide. I think this is a cool tool becuase it has the entire world of twitter in one place for students or teachers to get updated on the latest news. We learned about PLNs in our class preps at the begining of the week. Twitter connects people from all over the world in a giant electronic community. Teachers can use Twitter to gather resources, grants, websites, lesson plan ideas and the list goes on and on. Teachers can communicate with other experts around the world and see how they're solving their standards. Teachers are always learning, and if Twitter can help them stay on top of all the latest news in education I would recommend using it in schools across the nation. If you want to visit the site Storify, click on "Storify" in the title and if you want to visit my specific personal learning network on Storify, click on "Personal Learning Network" in the title.
Mortgage Vocabulary Quiz Created With Quizlet
I created this mortgage vocabulary set list on a tool called Quizlet. Quizlet is a very engaging and enhancing tool that should be implemented in schools across the nation. Students can look up a set of terms or create their own, and quiz themselves on the material using the different games the website provides for the students. I created this tool as a part of my service learning project. Mr. McGee, a calculus teacher at Crown Point High School, gave us one of his lesson plans, and asked us to make it more technology inclusive. The lesson was over exponential growth in the real world application of mortgages. I wanted to take his lesson and make it a blended learning experience so students wouldn't get too overwhelmed. This creation was one of the artifacts that I incorporated into my lesson plan for Mr. McGee. This set of cards contains most of the background information that students will need to know about mortgages to understand the real world applications and of course some of the math formulas that they will need to know to solve the problems they will get concerning this topic. If you want to visit the Quizlet site, click on "Quizlet" in the title and if you wan to visit this specific Quizlet list, click on "Mortgage Vocabulary Quiz" in the title.
Welcome To Calculus Flyer Created With Smore
I created this flyer welcoming my future class to calculus with a program called Smore. This tool is very universal and connects people from all over the globe together. Not only do I have the ability to send out this flyer to all my future students, parents and anyone else involved with this class, but other people can follow my profile and get notifications when I post a new flyer. This tool allows me to connect with other people and for people to connect with me when they want to. I can use this tool to follow people who post flyers that connern educators, like me, and give updated material constantly. There are tons of templates to work from so there is a creative outlet that comes when someone is using this flyer in a mathematics classroom. I think this is a great tool to incorporate in the classroom becuase it allows students to make safe connections and they are able to get information to their profiles in instants. If you want to visit the Smore website, click "Smore" in the title and if you want to visit my flyer specifically, click "Welcome To Calculus Flyer" in the title.
Hour of Code:
This is my certificate for the hour of code. The hour of code is a global movement by the Computer Science Education Week and code.org that is reaching thousands of schools across the globe and is introducing very basic computer science and computer programming skills through different games. I, personally, have always thought of computer programming and computer science to be very hard and something I thought I would never see myself doing. But, I played several games and I came to realize that coding isn't as impossible as I thought. I know these games are not the hardest level of coding, but I know now that I have a very basic base for coding and could go into that field of teaching if I wanted. If you want to visit the site with all the games for the hour of code, click the title at the top.