Blog Post 10

If I ever decide to become an educator in the future, I feel that I would use data collection and reporting (Excel) tools for grading. Our last skill check along with examples we completed in class the past couple weeks has shown me that Excel can be used in order for teachers to complete grade books. Especially since we learned how to come up with the averages, medians, modes, maximums, and minimums in Excel. This would make it easier for educators to come up with grades and the class averages for tests. I have never used Excel prior to this course and learning the functions was very interesting and fun! I think that surveys would also be helpful in order for teachers to note which subject areas the students might be struggling in through anonymous survey responses and this can help them know what material to review.

I found powerpoint presentations along with the website design to be interesting. It was fun to go over our classmates projects and gain ideas from them. I also thought that the newsletters were fun as well and seeing everyone else's designs on their blog posts was neat. Overall, developing these assignments/projects was difficult and draining but seeing the results was worth it and I realized we all learned many things from this course that we can apply to our future careers.

I feel that throughout this course we spent time going over so many different technological skills. I personally would like to learn more about citations and different formats regarding papers just because I have never fully learned how to properly cite or format papers on Word. I think this is something I need to use often as well so learning more about this would be very helpful throughout college and my future career. This is a topic we spent maybe one class discussing but would be nice to learn more about. I plan on doing further research to teach myself.