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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.

I think excel would be most useful in tracking grades. It is a great tool to visual data and see trends in students' grades throughout the course. The topic I have found most interesting in my class mate's blogs is seeing how similar our public school educations have been. Despite the fact that I'm not from florida it seems like we all learned similar things and used similar techniques. I would like to learn more about excel and get more comfortable using it. I think this skill would be most useful moving forward because excel is a widely used software. I can achieve this goal through watching lynda videos and other online tutorials.

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.