Assignment 3

High school Personal Finance
http://www.frugalfanatic.com/budgeting-for-beginners/

Even though this website is not specifically educational it does have a lot of valuable information that can be useful when teaching teenagers about personal finance.

Currency: even though this specific page of the website is not the newest thing on there, the website is frequently updated. The author has frequent blog posts and all the links on her site work.

Relevance: This site is a guide for beginners. It is relevant to the course and easy to understand.

Authority: The woman that runs this website and created the page is widely respected and has a coaching business on personal finance. She also has many free resources for people to take advantage of.

Accuracy: Her website is up to date and uses widely accepted financial tips

Purpose: This website gives the exact beginner information for this age group. It also provides easy to use budgeting tools for students to print and use.


High school photography
https://digital-photography-school.com/megapost-learning-how-to-use-your-first-dslr/

This website is a great tool for letting kids learn how to use a DSLR on their own. This process is best to learn by doing so it is better to give kids the space and resources to teach themselves through doing.

Currency: This original post is about 4 years old but it has been updated. It has many links to pinterest that all work.

relevance: this website gives a step by step guide on the best way to use a DSLR. This is often the main topic of an intro to photo class.

Authority: This is a well respected website in the photo community. They provide a lot of guides on equipment and they offer more in depth courses for more experienced artists.

Accuracy: the advice on this website is accurate from my experience. Everything on there applies to all DSLR cameras and all mediums that students could be shooting.

Purpose: this website serves the exact purpose of what students would be learning in the course. It is a great resource for students to look at when they are struggling or missing a step.




Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

blog post 8

Image
Adaptive technologies can support many diverse learners. The main point of adaptive technologies are to translate information into a medium that makes it accessible to someone. This could mean a voice to text machine for a student who has a hearing impairment. Another example of an adaptive technology would be descriptions of photos/graphics for students with visual impairments. One of the main challenges of using adaptive technologies is funding. As a teacher you might have a student who needs a certain piece of technology but you do not have the funding to provide that technology to them. http://edtechteacher.org/tools/  is a great site for staying up to date on technology used in the classroom. They provide some free tools to teachers, create professional development, and organize conferences for educators.
Read more

ILP #2

Image
For my independent learning project I created a "meet your teacher day" flyer in photoshop. I used creative commons images from bing for the graphics and created the text on my own. I used a different different lay for each section of text so that I could manipulate the spacing, font size, font, and colors.
Read more

blog post 9

Image
I think the flipped classroom can be a good idea in a few circumstances but it usually does not work. It is very difficult to engage students outside of the classroom. I think teachers often use the flipped classroom to save time but if a flipped classroom is done correctly, the lesson planning should take longer than the average lesson. https://www.ted.com/talks/salman_khan_let_s_use_video_to_reinvent_education this ted talk gives a good perspective on flipped classroom I really liked the powerpoint assignments. I did not realize how easy it was to add audio into a powerpoint. I really liked this feature because it made my powerpoint more effective because I could explain myself more.
Read more