Savannah B.

  For Assignment 5: PowerPoint Interaction, I made a “Choose your own path: How a Bill Becomes a Law” interactive game. Viewers of this game could click different options to see if their proposed bill would make it to law. A skill I learned from this activity was how to link one slide in the PowerPoint to another slide, even if they were not next to each other. To improve the assignment next time, I could add more appealing graphics or make the game more story-like to be more engaging to the viewer. One thing that I did not like about this assignment was having to incorporate so many slides because it was personally hard for me to think of a topic that could reach that many slides.  If I were to become a teacher, I would use surveys to collect feedback about how topics were taught. I would teach Social Studies in high school, preferably only juniors or seniors. After teaching a unit, I could give a survey about students’ feelings on it in order to improve the lesson the next y...

I took an asynchronous section of the EME2040 class. One thing I have liked about this class is being able to work on the material at my own pace because I can make my own schedule for when to do the readings and assignments. One thing I have disliked is the grading scale being either a 0, 70, or 100 on assignments. I think it is very unfair and does not adequately reflect the work put into the assignment. As a teacher, I would grade assignments better because it is very discouraging as a student to receive a 70 on an assignment when you have only missed one part of it. In reality, that grade should be more like a 90. Having a grading scale that adequately reflects the student’s work as a teacher could help create a more positive classroom environment and make students more motivated to complete their work. Open educational resources (OER) are instructional materials that are freely available to the public. They can be used to help teach or learn material by students or teachers. An ex...

Making the web design was overall a pretty fun assignment. It was cool to make a website from scratch because that is something I had not done before. I liked having the flexibility to make it pretty much my own, following the assignment guidelines. At first it was a little confusing to figure out because it was not something I was used to, but then it was fine once I got the hang of it. I can use these skills in the future if I decide to ever make another website because now I have a foundation of creating a website. Here is a link to my website if you want to check it out! Diigo was also another site I had not used before this class. Using this site allowed me to learn some skills of finding articles related to specific content and publishing them to the site. I liked how I was able to annotate and make comments on what I found to be important in the article and that I could share that with others. This site can be used in the future with a team because if we are trying to find info...