Umm... Something About Jeopardy

     I thought the assignment went pretty well, PowerPoint is an excellent program and its pretty easy to make different things with it. I did have to redo a couple parts of it, I accidentally used animations instead of screen transitions and needed to set non-linear navigation, but those are simple fixes. I thought it would be a lot more difficult, but as I got used to the controls (especially the copy slide button), it became a lot easier. Overall, I enjoyed the assignment, as it was an excellent way to get familiar with PowerPoint in general. Picture of my PowerPoint below.

    Surveys are a great way to collect and sort mass information. Specifically, I could use surveys to receive feedback on assignments or tests. I could also use them to plan out projects with, asking students which one they prefer. For social studies specifically, if I'm doing a debate I could do a survey to let the students chose which topic to debate. Building on that, I could also use a survey to get feedback on the debate, asking who they thought did best.

    There are quite a number of interesting things on my peer's blogs. A lot of them look really great, which is certainly a testament to their abilities. There are some interesting topics they talk about too, I remember on from a few assignments ago talking about how he didn't want to be a teacher anymore after going to class this semester. Besides that, they add some pretty god personal stories which are interesting to peruse occasionally.

    I can't say I used the badges a lot, even this deep into the class. Even if I did, I'm on a spare computer so I couldn't share any of em'. The badges are interesting, but its not exactly anything I would save, its not like they're official certifications so there's not practical use for them. They're just nice to show off I suppose, so I doubt I will ever use any of them. 

    Tech skill wise, it would be nice to learn how to use Canvas, or something like it. All the additional technology we've learned is nice, but Canvas is something we are absolutely guaranteed  to use, as long as nothing crazy happens. Given that, it would be good to learn some of it, although I don't know how feasible it would be to do something like that. I imagine there is a canvas-like training program, or at least some training version of canvas which we could use to learn at least some of the features.