EME2040 Alexander Amenta Blog

As a teacher, I could see excel being very useful for keeping a virtual grade book. I could even use the equation functions to find the average of the students test grades and homework grades. As a future high school English teacher, I will undoubtedly have a fair amount of various quiz grades between vocabulary quizzes, essay grades, pop quizzes, participation will all need to be tracked in separate excel pages. I couldn't imagine keeping a manual grade book that would be nearly as organized as a digital one created in excel.  It was particularly interesting to see what my fellow classmates found as far as what websites there were available for students to practice online learning that was mostly free. Also, some of my fellow classmate's blogs looked really nice and well put together. One, in particular, was very intricate with multiple pages of content, and it had a unique professional tone that also very effeminate like the maker of the blog. The next technology skill I

The flipped classroom is a new concept where the students go over the learning materials, and resources before class and then come to class prepared to discuss what they understood or didn't about the content. With this approach, it allows more time for the teacher to instruct students because class time isn't being expended to teach the assignment. Also with expanding class sizes, it allows the students to ask the questions that they don't know individually and the teacher can accommodate class time to do so because they didn't have to spend class time going over it. This process is all a part of making learners more active in teaching themselves the content. To read more about this Check out this site: https://www.cte.cornell.edu/teaching-ideas/designing-your-course/flipping-the-classroom.html. Open education is a revolutionary movement to make high-quality educational resources open for students and educators to interact with, in an accessible and malleable manner.