Blog Journal #10

 

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 year, as well as the next unit going to be taught. These surveys would have numerical scales for students to mark their feelings, but it would also have a suggestion box for students to fill out if they wanted to give more information.

After reviewing my classmates’ blogs, the topic I found to be the most interesting was their opinions on Diigo. I found the majority of my classmates felt the same way I did about the tool. Not many of us had used it before, so this class was the first time for us. Most everyone thought it was a nice tool to share resources with annotations, but that the site itself was very out-dated. The interface is very old-looking and does not seem like something you would want to use in your classroom, unless you had a purpose for it. 

I have not been doing the tech-flex badges because I have been focusing on schoolwork that is actually due and because I am involved in many organizations, so I have had to manage my time. I think the badges are a good idea, but only if there is a purpose behind them. I am not someone who likes busy work, so I would have to get something useful out of doing the badges. Badges could be a good idea to implement in your classroom if they were related to what you were learning and there was actually a purpose to them.

The technology-related skill I want to learn next is how to better use Slack. Many of the organizations I am involved in now use this app and it is a bit confusing at times with the different groups and channels. It is also a more modern piece of technology in the sense that it is newer and being used more frequently. I think it is important to understand how to use these technologies because that is what the students are growing up using and knowing how to do. 


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  1. Jon's BlogApril 3, 2022 at 11:55 AM

    Hi Savannah,

    You have a very Indepth PowerPoint! It reminded me of School House Rock. The episode where the bill is sitting on capitol hill and tells the young boy what steps a bill goes through to become a law. I think you have a great way of teaching students how a bill becomes law. Honestly, there should be more programs like that that help students learn and prepare for test in a manner set up like this. It is much different than just reading the study guide (if there is one) over and over again until it is locked into memory.

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