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The surveys through Qualtrics are one of my favorite things we've learned to do so far. I love how applicable that skill is to all professions and activities. I will use surveys in my classroom in the future as a way to poll my students. This will allow me to see how well my students feel they grasp a concept before moving on, and it will allow me to get feedback from my students on how they feel I am doing throughout the year when it comes to meeting their needs both academically and creatively. I hope that in the future being able to get feedback from my students will give me the opportunity to grow even more as a teacher. I would like to teach elementary English., and I am unsure of the grade level yet, but I would tailor my surveys to be easily done by whichever grade I end up teaching. I could even get ratings on how much my English students enjoy the books they are reading.

My favorite topic that we did was FlipGrid. I thought it was fun getting to watch the facial expressions and hear the voice fluctuations of my classmates when watching them discuss a flipped classroom. I feel like it allowed us to convey more emotion than just a text blog allows us to. It also allowed us to learn a new form of technology while discussing a topic, and I feel that this is very cool because that blog topic acted as a dual learning method. I also just enjoyed hearing people talk about a flipped classroom in general because it is such a hot topic these days, and everyone had similar views but different reasons on why they did or did not like a flipped classroom.

I really want to learn how to use photoshop next. I feel that it is a skill that can be applied across so many fields both personal and professional. I can achieve this by taking a class, watching online tutorials, or exploring the technology myself. I will definitely look further into how I can learn to use photoshop, and I will explore the ways I can apply it to the field of teaching. 

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https://www.oercommons.org This is a link to a website of Open Education Resources. This site allows you to find educational resources that are open for public use to help you improve your curriculum. And, this site is fitting for OER because an OER is simply a resource that helps to improve teaching skills, curriculum, or professional development and is open for public use. I really like how this site allowed you to search for resources specifically related to your subject and grade as well as whether or not this material needs to fall under Common Core or state specific standards.

I learned a lot of new skills when doing the PowerPoint assignments. I liked the second assignment more than the first one. It was more fun and allowed me to be more creative with it rather than just making a lesson. I learned how to voice record on PowerPoint as well as how to disable linear navigation. I thought this was cool since I had never done it before. I think if I had to improve anything, it would be having more of a color scheme set or a colored background. Overall, I am very happy with how my projects turned out.