Reflection

During this workshop I learned how to use anchor to create classroom podcast. I think making a classrooom podcast would be great, it could be used as a news letter or as a way to communicate daily things to parents. Podcast are a way for students to get involved without much teacher assistance. I think anchor is a great easy to use tool to help students and teacher create podcast. I have never used anchor before or made a podcast but anchor made it simple and easy to understand. I really enjoyed learning about anchor. I think students would have fun creating a classroom podcast and sharing it with their friedns and family. I think it could also be used great for class projects to share out stories and projects. Overall I really enjoyed learning about creating a podcast and I liked the anchor tool it was simple and easy to use. 

I am glad I learned how to use adobe spark post. It is very similar to Canva, but you can also use it on a desktop computer and I think that it is easier to customize the text and look using this app. This was the first time I participated in a webinar using the BlueJeans app. I did not realize everyone would be able to see each other, but I think that that was really cool and I could also see myself using BlueJeans to collaborate with my peers in the future for a group project or for work as a teacher. 

I learned how to use both apps fairly quickly and I can tell that I am getting better with technology since the beginning of this class. While I still don’t really like using technology like this all the time, participating in the webinar with my classmate tonight helped me see how useful apps like BlueJean can be in real world settings. If I needed to collaborate with peers, a video conference call with the ability to share screens is very helpful. Also, seeing how easy it was for me to make my recipe look professional was very motivational. I was already planning on putting recipes in my creativity project, but this will make them look much more professional and put together. 

This is relevant to my future classroom because it introduced me to different apps that I had not previously gotten to interact with. Many of the apps that we got the chance to learn about during this webinar were very applicable to Early Childhood Education. I especially liked the apps Zen Studio and Sock Puppets. I plan to use Zen Studio in my classroom as a calming tool for my students. There are many times in early childhood classrooms where students get overwhelmed and need a break. It is extremely important that there is a safe space for them in the classroom. These areas are typically called a "calm down corner". Students are free to go here when they need to take a break and calm down. I think having an iPad available with the Zen Studio app would be extremely beneficial to my students. This app is simple to use, has calming music, as well as an opportunity for creativity. This would allow students to work creatively, as well as have a distraction to help them calm down. I also feel as though the Sock Puppets app could be a beneficial addition to my future early childhood classroom. Retelling is a standard that is covered and learned in most early childhood grades. Having the Sock Puppets app would make learning and developing this skill more interactive and much more fun for the students. I chose the Educator as Designer ISTE standard for this reflection because I feel like using these apps helps me, as a future teacher, design more meaningful lessons and activities for my future students. 

This was a super helpful webinar in my opinion. We learned about five apps in total but I really found three to be super exiting and which I definitely plan on using in my classroom. The first was Kahn Academy. Most students are already pretty familiar with using Kahn for homework help videos on youtube but I actually did not know that they had an app as well. There are a bunch of helpful test prep areas on the app as well as some great opportunities for students to practice computer science. I also really loved the BBC app Civilisations. I plan on using this to enhance any of my lessons that might engage with some of the ancient materials on the app. I know that as a student I would have been floored by having VR in my classroom. This is a great opportunity to really engage students. The final app that I wanted to talk about that I really could see myself using in the classroom is Haiku Deck. This app is similar to clips or adope spark and just allows students to create short videos that make a few points. I would love to use this app as an alternative to some writing assignments or even as exit tickets for them to put the main ideas of my class period in before they leave for the day. All in all, I really liked learning about these apps and I could really see potential for their use in my future classroom!

I choose the ISTE Learner standard for educators to relate to my experience during the podcast webinar. I learned about an app that I had never heard of, and how to use it. I learned it could be implemented in my future classroom for a variety of things. I could start a podcast with children as a means of assessing their progress or send home a podcast for students to utilize as a resource instead of homework. I could also use the app to create instructions for centers or independent activities. 

I believe this could be relevant to my future classroom because it is a new and engaging way to interact with the students and their parents. It could be used as a newsletter or a way to leave instructions. Another benefit it could have in an early childhood setting, is allowing students to interview a partner. This would be a great way for them to practice their oral language skills while integrating technology. 

Making a podcast for my classroom could be beneficial. Within teaching special education, this will be a helpful tool to send parents information about upcoming events or things needed to the class. The parent-teacher partnership is very important and this would be a useful tool to communicate when the parent does not have the ability to meet in person. Also, Anchor allows the user to send responses to the podcast, which would be very helpful if I had a question or request for parents and then they can all send their responses and it would all be in the same space.

The app will also be useful for students to use to be a collaborator because they can work together with their peers making podcasts, and also will be useful as a learner because the podcast allows students to learn independently or have instruction at the palm of their hand.

I feel that this is relevant to my future classroom for myself as well as my students. I talked about the ISTE standard for learning because I truly had no prior knowledge of this app before using it. I enjoyed exploring the promising practice in order to improve student learning. The webinar allowed me to gain new insight into the app. I think this is a great way that I can keep anecdotal records on my children in my future classroom as well. I can use it to grade if I need to because it would be super simple. Also, I would be able to use the features of the voice to text to make notes about what I am teaching and then I can reflect on it. 

I really liked learning about Google Keep. Prior to signing up for this webinar I had never even heard of the app, and when I entered the webinar I had no idea what it was about. After completing the webinar, I feel that I will use this app not only in my classroom, but in my everyday life to make things easier. I appreciate that it can be used on other device aside from apple products because that makes it universal for all of my devices considering I don't have a Mac. I feel that I will use it in the future to keep track of my daily to dos and I love that I can set reminders for a place or a time. In the classroom I feel I will use it the most to make observations and quickly speak into it while it transcribes my words. Then I can later turn it into a doc. I think it is beneficial because sometimes voice text doesn't catch exactly what I say, in this case I would be able to listen and correct the wording. Overall, I loved learning about the app and look forward to using it for personal, business, and classroom purposes. 

I chose the ISTE standard of leaener because I not only learned how to use a new app, but I also connected globally with others through the webinar. 

This app is relevant in my future classroom because I could use it as a white board and present it on the board. I could also use it to hold my lesson plans and record my reflection on them to look back over in the future. I could put checklists and to-do lists in the app and set reminders of what I need to do at certain times or when I get to certain places.  It is also beneficial because this is all done in one app. 

I could definitely use this in my future classroom by creating quick instructional videos for working out math problems, where the problems are annotated with step-by-step instructions. I love the feature where you can grab the text from an image. Perhaps, students could take pictures of their work, grab the text, and submit them that way so that I am not having to decipher through bad handwriting 24/7. 

I love that it is a good collaboration tool and can be integrated with Google Docs. I could see myself assigning projects using Google Keep, where each group can collaborate with the live updated note sharing feature. Additionally, they can draw pictures and diagrams (or graphs using the grid feature), add annotated pictures of their work, and add date and time reminders to get things done and stay on track with the group. Additionally, I love how Google Keep can b used with simply wifi and a computer - one does not need an iPad to be successful using this. 

Looking at the ISTE standard for Collaborators: Educators dedicate time to collaborate with both colleagues and students to improve practice, discover and share resources and ideas, and solve problems, this app allows for collaboration with students and with faculty and staff. BlueJeans could be used for team meetings when planning curriculum If using BlueJeans, teachers can be in the comfort of their own homes while meeting with team members. BlueJeans could be used inside the classroom as a tool to meet/communicate with students from all over the world. This allows for multicultural teaching and learning. Students could learn about different cultures and how they interact with the world. This could also be used for citizenship education on how to communicate to people when you can’t speak a certain language and how to be respectful to different cultures. 
I could also use BlueJeans as a way to have parent teacher conferences with parents who can’t ever come into the school or maybe for divorced parents. This would save the time of two-four different parent-teacher conferences by just having one conference on BlueJeans.
BlueJeans could also be used for collaboration with counselors and discussing how to help students that I need a little outside help with.