Module Reflection #7

30 of The Most Popular Trends in Education

The resources under the new directions were really helpful. I could see myself bringing these technology resources into the classroom. I was pretty surprised to see growth mindset as the most popular trend in education. The first time I heard about this was in high school when my AP Psych teacher had us learn about 'GRIT'. I enjoyed reading the top resources of Maker Learning. With many people wanting to switch their classroom into Project-Based Learning, these resources (Card Game, Unique Ideas, Maker Movement) give teachers ideas of what to do. 

      

I have actually used multiple different audio recorders before. My church used to use Audacity to record sermons and so I got a taste of that. On QuickTime player, they also have an option to create new movie/audio/screen recording. During the pandemic, in my last credential class, my professor always sent us audio recordings through Vocaroo and it was easy to use. Lastly, I've been playing around with GarageBand on the Mac to make music and it is also a great audio recorder. I would say Audacity and GarageBand are similar because you can cut stuff out easily whereas, in QuickTime and Vocaroo, you would have to start the entire recording over if you messed up. My favorite teacher quote is also the same as the professors! "Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime." When I interviewed my older sister for a class, that was the quote she left me with. I recorded this assignment with QuickTime and my issue with that was having to convert it to mp3 since it was an m4a file before turning it in. 

The YouTube Closed Captioning assignment was really fun! It was a lot of work to pause and type and rewatch, but the end result was really rewarding. It was only a one-minute and 46-second video and it took me a while to complete. I cannot imagine those who close caption longer videos. I suppose there is Google's auto-transcription but to have to go back and fix Google's mistakes is hard work!

For my Screencast Assignment, I used QuickTime Player because I have used it before, and works really well for me. Since I messed up a couple of times, I was able to put the video through iMovie and cut out unwanted parts. The tricky thing is to line up the video correctly or else it would have awkward splicing. I had to splice three different areas of the video but I think I did a pretty good job at connecting it.