EME2040 Blog

  After learning all of the vast types of data one can gather as a teacher to improve the classroom, I would definitely make surveys to gather it if I was a teacher. Analyzing data is important for teachers to do regardless of grade-level, but I would want to in a high school environment, so the type of data gathered might be a little bit different than lower-grade levels. For one, students generally have more autonomy, so most of the datum would be about the students’ preferences and performance instead of parents. If I was a high school math teacher, I would create a survey to find out how students feel about the format of exams and quizzes. I would probably use Google Forms to create a survey to make students take during class with school computers. I’d put some multiple-choice questions about different parts of the assessment so that students can rate them on a scale of 1-5. The answers to these questions can be gathered automatically by the software, so they’ll make it easier ...

     Distance learning has definitely been a roller coaster. Especially when most of us have been doing it now for over a year, without having done it before. It's almost as if I'm used to it at this point, but that's not to say that I enjoy it. This time last year, when this was just going to be an extended Spring Break, it was inconvenient yet exciting because it was new, but now it's as if I forgot what it was like to actually go to school. As things have changed over this one-year period, the challenges have changed too. On top of the fact that there's a Pandemic, I was completely new to being an online student, so accomodating the future of my academic career within a 13-15 inch laptop was challenging. Taking tests turning in assignments turned out to be harder than I thought, especially with the use of Honorlock and the formats of the assignments changing. Everyone was experimenting to see what worked, and the inconsistency made it difficult for students and t...

    When I was at school a lot of my teachers had Weebly websites. I don't know why this made me believe that I would innately know how to use Weebly, but it did, and I was surprised to make an account and realize that it is not as easy as it seems. It was really fun to discover the endless amounts of features that could all make the coolest website, I learned a lot. The assignment itself was challenging, however, it was pretty fun to experiment around, and also all of the requirements allowed for a finished web page with a lot of information. If we didn't have to do all of those things I would have never seen the cool features that Weebly had to offer, and finding out how to do certain things makes me feel like I have a shot at making a decent teacher website in the future. Especially when I look back at it now, I can reference a webpage and all the components we had to add in, stuff which I would have never done unless the assignment challenged me to. The assignment also mad...