Module Reflection #6

Starting off, I have never used Twitter. I have other social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube, Pinterest, Tumblr, Reddit, and Quora. I was never interested in Twitter because I did not think people would want to follow me and hear my thoughts and opinions, and that is why I never got into it. After looking at the resources like this and this, I see how using social media in the classroom could be beneficial. Using Twitter for the first time during this class opened my eyes to see how easy the platform is to engage in. For my three posts, I did a regular post, a poll post, and a video post. I did not mean to post them all around the same time, but the assignment is due today. When I have my own classroom, I would definitely incorporate Twitter to make easy and fast polls for students and parents to easily vote for and showcase student writing or artworks. 

For my lesson plan presentation, I opted to use Google Slides because I am most familiar with it. Before Google Slides, I used to use Microsoft PowerPoint and Prezi. I feel like in high school, I used Prezi a ton because it was not linear, and it provided a different look to a general rectangle slide. If I was teaching online, I would opt for Nearpod or Peardeck, and if I was teaching history, I would totally use Storyboard That. All in all, making this PowerPoint was not bad... I just had to make sure I had enough and accurate information about my topic.