#10 - Data Collection, Blogs, and Future Skills

I plan to use data collection tools very frequently in the future as a teacher. For example, I could use Excel to chart students' grades on tests, homework, projects, other assignments, and overall grades/averages. This will be very helpful to be able to see the class as a whole, and also each individual student's achievements. Also, I could use data collection tools for tracking students' achievement for each standard I teach. I think after teaching a lesson, I could track how each student thinks he/she did, then seeing how they actually did on the test or corresponding assignment. This would give me a (mental) green light when they understand everything, a yellow light when I may need to have a review, and a red light when I need to completely reteach the lesson. Tools to collect data, such as Excel, will definitely help both me and my students in the future.

When reading my classmates' blogs, I absolutely loved being able to see their ideas and opinions. Every time I read a blog post, I learned something new that I never would have thought of on my own. I am so glad we had these blogs in EME 2040 and were able to read everyone else's thoughts, too!

Earlier, I was thinking that in the future, I would really love to learn how to use Microsoft OneNote and the cool things you can do with it. I take my notes in lecture classes with paper and pen, but I think it would be so much more productive for me to take them on an app like this! But because we learned so much about the three main tools in Microsoft Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel) this semester, I will probably be able to translate what we learned there and use it in OneNote.